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Writing

What About the Baby
Essays
Writing counsel
Published Fall 2021
Reviewing Academy Professor Alice McDermott's new collection of essays, 'What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction' / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Colson Whitehead
President's Reading Series
A writer's DNA
Published Sept 26, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead breaks down his influences, career
A little boy peeks out from his hockey mask
Film
Being 7 in Baltimore
Published March 26, 2018
'7 in the City' project, which received Idea Lab funding in 2017, will premiere 12 short documentaries and a related web project in May
Salman Rushdie, dressed in a gray suit and striped shirt, holds open a hard cover copy of his book, The Golden House, and speaks into a podium microphone
President's Reading Series
Salman Rushdie's turn to realism
Published Sept 27, 2017
Acclaimed British-Indian author talks writing, politics at Johns Hopkins
Ron Capps stand in front of whiteboard that reads
Foreign Affairs Symposium
Writing therapy for vets
Published April 6, 2017
With Veterans Writing Project, JHU alum Ron Capps provides literary outlet for the stresses of war
Junot Díaz
Foreign Affairs Symposium
On walls, fear, and exclusion
Published Feb 23, 2017
Award-winning Dominican-American author, activist speaks at JHU's Foreign Affairs Symposium
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on stage with crimson curtain backdrop
Foreign Affairs Symposium
'If you're going to create, failure has to come'
Published Feb 9, 2017
Author, activist, and JHU alum Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks politics, race, and writing as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium
Two men seated on stage with American flag in background
Conservation
'I just don't want to quit'
Published Dec 8, 2016
Author, farmer, activist Wendell Berry keep fighting 'to protect everything worth protecting'
Zadie Smith reads from her upcoming novel
President's Reading Series
'Tap dancing, blackness, and time'
Published Nov 4, 2015
British author Zadie Smith shares bits of her unpublished fourth novel, 'Swing, Time'
Corrected manuscript titled page for John Barth's novel 'LETTERS,' published in 1979
Funhouse experience
LETTERS, etc.
Published Oct 16, 2015 Video
Exhibition at George Peabody Library celebrates distinguished career of author John Barth