Throughout her creative life, Christian McEwen's (Playwriting Fellow '11) encounters in art and literature have taught her a deceptively simple lesson: slow down. The writer, who has worked in poetry, prose, film, and theater, recently published a new book, World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down (Bauhan Publishing, 2011), about how slowing the pace of life can … [Read more...]
Mira Bartok Talks The Memory Palace
Years ago, Mira Bartók's work as an artist and writer was threatened when a car accident and subsequent brain injury made even the most basic functions of memory a major struggle. Yet rather than shy away, Mira makes memory a central organizing idea of her memoir about life with a schizophrenic mother; the book is called, in fact, The Memory Palace. Similarly, the accident … [Read more...]
Think Massachusetts Art
Highly suggested: Think/Do/Experience one, some, or all of the following things in the next few days: WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12 (tonight) Alice Bouvrie's (Film & Video Fellow '11) film Thy Will Be Done (see a clip, above) screens at the Marran Theatre at Lesley University, 7 PM, free. This documentary tells the story of male-to-female transsexual Sara Herwig in her journey to … [Read more...]
Jessica Bozek at the Boston Book Fest
The Boston Book Festival is a free, day-long schedule of events, readings, workshops, and other bookish happenings on Saturday, October 15, 2011, at Copley Square in Boston. A number of past MCC fellows/finalists are among the presenters, including Jessica Bozek (Poetry Finalist '10), who joins poets Stephen Burt and Sandra Beasley for the reading/discussion Poetry: Personae, … [Read more...]
Autumn Leaves of Literature
The leaves turn in a bookish Massachusetts autumn. On Saturday, October 15, 2011, Copley Square in Boston turns from ordinary Square-ness into a temporary monument to the thing we call "book." The Boston Book Festival is a free, day-long schedule of events, readings, workshops, and other bookish happenings. Among the presentations for adults and kids are these with past … [Read more...]