NOTES FROM THE GREEN COUCH
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 |

• seven-up on bitter: The 7-up series continued in '07 with a new theme.
  | Thursday, February 22, 2007 | | calendar entry |

• speakeasy: "Poetry. Prose. Anything Goes." The story of Speakeasy.
  | Speakeasy web site |

• mind of winter: A celebration of winter at the Writers House.
  | Thursday, January 18, 2007 | | calendar entry |

• Jack Truten: Word.Doc and narrative medicine.
  | Monday, February 19, 2007 | | calendar entry |

• 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 |

• David McCullough: Historian and biographer was webcast live from the 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 |

• 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 |

• 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 |

• 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 |

• Greg Manning on writing about 9/11: Greg Manning's wife Lauren was badly burned in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. Greg found a way to write about it.
  | Wednesday, Sepember 13, 2006 | | calendar entry |