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 (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
"She has talent -- magical, sly, cumulative -- that most writers would kill for." | 
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Literature Tea Time
Please note: Teas will resume on Monday, February 11th.
Every Monday except holidays
4:30 - 6:00pm in 14N-417
In our ongoing efforts to provide more occasions for the Literature community at MIT to have fun, provide support, and be visible to each other, we are initiating a weekly Monday "afternoon tea" (with coffee and cookies too).
All with an affection for Literature are welcome -- students, concentrators, minors, majors, staff and faculty! Drop by, make it a time to catch up with a friend or confer about classes with a fellow student or a faculty or staff person, to consult about minor or major issues in a less formal context, to hatch great plans for the future, etc.
questions: lit@mit.edu or 253-3581
An Evening with Vikram Chandra
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Acclaimed writer Vikram Chandra will give a public reading from his latest book, Sacred Games, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), on Monday November 5 at 6:30pm in room 6-120. This event is free and no tickets or reservations are required. The reading is sponsored by the MIT Literature Faculty with assistance from the MIT Council for the Arts, MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures Section, and the Cultural Council of the Indian Diaspora. Born and raised in New Delhi, Chandra attended Film School at Columbia University in New York, where he was inspired to write his first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain; it won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize. He has also written the short story collection Love and Longing in Bombay, for which he won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize. His most recent book, the celebrated Sacred Games, has been called "a great novel, perhaps the greatest book on Bombay ever written" (Hindustan Times). His work has been translated into 15 languages. Chandra splits his time between Berkeley, where he teaches Creative Writing at the University of California, and Mumbai. For additional information please contact Joli Divon Saraf at joli@mit.edu or the MIT Literature Section at (617) 258-5629 |
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MIT Literary Society
Founded in the spring of 2006, the MIT Literary Society is an undergraduate reading group that focuses on literary discussion outside of the classroom. The purpose of the MIT Literary Society is to complement the often rigorous and technical MIT education by creating a forum that encourages discussions on the current literary climate. The group is designed to encourage the exploration of various genres and interpretations, and also to develop one's leadership skills by coordinating discussions.
Visit http://web.mit.edu/litsociety/www/ for more information.
