Notes from the Green Couch
by Eric Karlan
Eric Karlan offers summaries and analyses of events and projects at the Kelly Writers House.
"all you need to know about writing"
- A panel speaks on writing as a career.
- Wednesday, January 28, 2004 calendar entry
- Link to event page
seven-up on bitter
- The 7-up series continued in '07 with a new theme.
- Thursday, February 22, 2007 calendar entry
- Link to 7-Up series
speakeasy
mind of winter
- A celebration of winter at the Writers House.
- Thursday, January 18, 2007 calendar entry
- Link to Mind Of Winter program
Jack Truten
- Word.Doc and narrative medicine.
- Monday, February 19, 2007 calendar entry
- Link to Word.Doc page
nonfiction homecoming, 2006
- Alumni nonfiction writers speak at the Writers House.
- Sunday, October 28, 2006 calendar entry
Amos Oz
- Israeli novelist's memoir featured at celebratory conference.
- Sunday, October 17, 2004 calendar entry
- Link to event page
David McCullough
- Historian and biographer was webcast live from the Kelly Writers House.
- Wednesday, March 31, 2004 calendar entry
Roger Angell and the meaning of baseball
- Interview conducted by Al Filreis during Angell's visit as a Writers House Fellow.
- Monday, February 28, 2005 calendar entry
- Link to Angell's Fellows page
Holocaust video testimonies
- Geoffrey Hartman discusses survivor testimony at an event cosponsored by the Writers House, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and the College of Arts & Sciences "pilot curriculum."
- Tuesday, October 30, 2001 calendar entry
- Link to event page
Amir Gutfreund
- Israeli writer Amir Gutfreund reads from his new book Our Holocaust.
- Tuesday, March 28, 2006 calendar entry
literary journalism
- The recipients of the first annual Literary Journalism Fellowships, Mara Gordon (C'08) and Gabe Crane (C'08), read from their pieces at an event featuring comments and responses by editors Lee Eisenberg and Daniel Okrent.
- Monday, April 9, 2007 calendar entry
end-of-year hub party 2007
- The core community of Writers House people gather in late April to celebrate the year's achievements and say goodbye to those leaving the area.
- Monday, April 23, 2007 calendar entry
- Link to End Of Year Party program
Kennedy addiction
- Christopher Kennedy Lawford visits the Writers House for a lunchtime conversation and talks about his memoir about privilege, addiction and survival.
- Wednesday, November 1, 2006 calendar entry
creative writing winners, 2006
- Each spring, the Creative Writing Program sponsors contests for Penn students. At this event, students who won prizes in various genres of writing read from their work.
- Wednesday, April 26, 2006 calendar entry