LIT@MIT: Spotlight

New Book Releases

Mary Fuller	Remembering the Early Modern Voyage: English Narratives in the Age of European Expansion Palgrave Macmillan, May 2008

Noel Jackson	Science and Sensation in Romantic Poetry Cambridge University Press, March 2008

Diana Henderson	Alternative Shakespeares 3 Routledge, January 2008

Wyn Kelley	Herman Melville: An Introduction Blackwell Publishing, January 2008

Sarah Brouillette	Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace Palgrave, 2007

James Buzard	Victorian Prism: Refractions of the Crystal Palace University of Virginia Press, 2007 Co-editor

Diana Henderson	Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare across Time and Media Cornell University Press

Wyn Kelley	A Companion to Herman Melville Blackwell Publishing Editor
	Herman Melville's Benito Cereno Bedford/St. Martin's Editor

Henry Jenkins	Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide New York University Press
	Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture New York University Press
	The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture New York University Press

Posted on May 12, 2008 12:43 PM | Permalink

An Evening with Jhumpa Lahiri

MIT Writers Series presents

Jhumpa Lahiri: winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her debut story collection Interpreter of Maladies. Lahiri's first novel, The Namesake, was published in 2003 and a film version was released in 2007. Her new book of short stories, entitled Unaccustomed Earth, will be published in 2008.

Tuesday - March 4, 2008
7:00 pm - MIT Room 32-123
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

(for directions go to: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg)

Free and open to the public - no tickets/reservations required. For information call 617-253-7894.

Sponsored by the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, the Literature Section and Foreign Languages and Literatures

"There is nothing accidental about her success; her plots are as elegantly constructed as a fine proof in mathematics."
-- The New York Times Book Review

"She has talent -- magical, sly, cumulative -- that most writers would kill for."
-- Guardian (UK)

Click here to view poster.

Posted on March 3, 2008 10:02 AM | Permalink