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Friday, 1/1
Saturday, 1/2
Sunday, 1/3
Monday, 1/4
Tuesday, 1/5
Wednesday, 1/6
Thursday, 1/7
Friday, 1/8
Saturday, 1/9
Sunday, 1/10
Monday, 1/11
- Welcome Back from break! Writers House reopens for classes and events!
- Spring Semester Classes Begin
- 5:15 PM: Penn and Pencil Club
Tuesday, 1/12
- 4:00 PM: Digerati (cyberintellectuals) at the
Writers House,
convened by John
Brockman--an open discussion of the new digital culture. Topics include
"The Third Culture," cyberart and cyberliteracy,
webpublishing as the beginning of the end of the publishing elite.
The session is meant to suggest ideas for bridging the gap between
science,
technology, and the humanities
in contemporary culture.
Joining John Brockman at the Writers House will be these digerati: Maris Bowe of word.com Jason McCabe Calacanis a Silicon Alley Reporter Luyen Chou of Learn Technologies Steven Johnson of feed.com Katinka Matson of EDGE Frank Moretti of Columbia University's Center for New Media, Technology and Learning Stefanie Syman of feed.com Bob Stein of Night KitchenJohn Brockman is the author/editor of nineteen books, including By the Late John Brockman, The Third Culture: By Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite and (with Katinka Matson) How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind. He is founder of Brockman, Inc., a literary and software agency, President of Edge Foundation, Inc., founder of The Reality Club, and editor and publisher of Edge, a website presenting The Third Culture in action.In the 1960s, John Brockman, "the only denizen of New York's bohemia with a business degree," backed Andy Warhol's underground movies and organized many happenings; published "By The Late John Brockman", an early mix of cybernetic theory & philosophy, and smuggled such intellectual contraband as "The Whole Earth Software Catalog" into the techno-illiterate Manhattan publishing world. For much more about "the third culture" and the digerati, click here. And to view The Philadelphia Inquirer article, click here .
Click here to hear excerpts from the event in mp3 format.
Wednesday, 1/13
- 6:00-7:00 PM: Mellon Writing Group (Arts Cafe)
- 8:00-10:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night.
Thursday, 1/14
Friday, 1/15
- CANCELLED; WILL BE RESCHEDULED: 4:00 PM: "Being Boswell: Writing
the Life of William Styron."
James West discusses literary biography and specifically the
challenges and rewards of writing a biography of a living writer.
James West III is one of the most eminent scholarly editors and literary biographers in the U.S. His recent biography of William Styron, William Styron, A Life, has won many awards. He is widely recognized as the most successful editor of the works of Theodore Dreiser; based on years of work with the manuscripts and typescripts (housed in Penn's special collections archive), his edition of Sister Carrie presented a novel radically different from the one most readers know. He is now at work on F. Scott Fitzgerald. He is a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, and a senior resident fellow of the Humanities Center there.
Saturday, 1/16
- 2:00-5:00 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative
- 8:00 PM: David Lavin Bluegrass evening!
Sunday, 1/17
Monday, 1/18
- 7:00 PM: Alumni Writers Series presents: Sherman Labovitz,
author of Being Red in Philadelphia: A Memoir of the McCarthy Era.
Sherman Labovitz left the Communist Party in 1957. He became a college
professor and established a program in social work at the Richard Stockton
College of New Jersey.Introduction by Ira Schwartz, Dean
of the
School of Social Work. For much more about this program, see
writing.upenn.edu/wh/archival/events/1999/beingred.html.
Tuesday, 1/19
- 7:30 PM: Theorizing in Particular: Approaches to Cultural
Interpretation presents Judith Feher-Gurewich.
Judith Feher-Gurewich is a Lacanian analyst and doctor in the social sciences. She recently edited with Michel Tort The Subject and the Self: Lacan and American Psychoanalysis (Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, 1996) and is editor of the Lacanian Clinic Series from Jason Aronson. She is Director of the Lacan Seminar at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University. Her talk will be titled "Is the Prohibition of Incest a Law? (The Jouissance of the Other)." The event is co-sponsored with the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Seminar and the journal Other Voices.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
Wednesday, 1/20
- 1:00-2:30 PM: Talking Film presents a conversation
with Gay Talese about the experience of seeing a book transformed into a
movie.
Gay Talese is the author of many books in a category of nonfiction writing that has sometimes been called "the literature of reality," sometimes "the New Journalism," sometimes "fact fiction." Among these works are Thy Neighbor's Wife (1980), Unto the Sons (1992), The Kingdom and the Power (1969), Honor Thy Father (1971), and The Overreachers (1965). For the Spring 1999 semester, Gay Talese will be the first Kelly Writers House Fellow, a project made possible by a generous grant from Paul Kelly. He will be teaching Literary Non-fiction at the Writers House. - CANCELLED: 7:00 PM: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. - Psi Chapter sponsors a Poetry Open Mic Night! in the Arts Cafe of the Kelly Writers House.
Thursday, 1/21
- 5:30-7:00 PM Artists Guild Public Lecture Series presents Mei-Ling
Hom. Ms. Hom makes "site specific" art in Philadelphia. She currently
has a piece at the Philadelphia Convention Center. She will be talking
about the influence of a specific space on a piece of art and the
surrounding community.
Part of Go West! Go International! 3rd Thursdays.
Friday, 1/22
Saturday, 1/23
- 2:00 PM: Laughing Hermit Series presents Fleda Brown Jackson.
Fleda Brown Jackson reads from her new collection The Devil's Child. She is the author of two previous books, Fishing with Blood (1988), and Do Not Peel the Birches (1998). She has won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and the Verna Emery Prize. She currently teaches at the University of Delaware. - 2:00-5:00 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative
Sunday, 1/24
- 7:00-10:00 PM: Writing Advising Begins
Monday, 1/25
Tuesday, 1/26
- 4:30-7:00 PM: Talking Film presents A Closer Look at Hal Hartley. Talking Film beings a new series, exploring the work of contemporary directors by taking a closer look at scenes from some of their films. This month "A Closer Look" will focus on the work of director Hal Hartley by looking at clips from The Unbelievable Truth, Surviving Desire, Trust and Henry Fool.
- 7:00 PM:
Bob Perelman reads from his recently released poetry
collection, The Future of Memory.
Bob Perelman was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1947. Active in the Bay Area poetry scene from 1976 to 1990, he then moved to Philadelphia with his wife, Francie Shaw, and their sons, Max and Reuben Perelman. He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Click here to read Kirsten Thorpe's introduction to this event.
A recording was made of this event as part of the PennSound project. The recording is available here
Wednesday, 1/27
- 8:00-10:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night.
Thursday, 1/28
- 5:30-7:00 PM Artists Guild Public Lecture Series presents Jane
Golden, director of Mural Arts
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
Friday, 1/29
Saturday, 1/30
- 2:00-5:00 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative
- 8:00-10:00 PM:
Full Circle, an Open Mic for Philadelphia-area poets, hosted by Cecily
Kellogg and Charlie O'Hay. Featuring Alicia Askenase and Julia
Blumenreich. An open reading will follow.
Alicia Askenase is Literary Coordinator at the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center in Camden, New Jersey, as well as a co-editor of the Philadelphia literary journal, 6ix. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as The World, Feminist Studies, Kiosk, Poetry New York, Chain, and Black Mountain Review. Her chapbook The Luxury of Pathos was published by Texture Press in 1996. Shirley Shirley, a long story in verse, will be published in 1999 by Sputen Dyvil Press.
Julia Blumenreich is an educator and poet living on scenic Carpenter Lane in Mt. Airy. She is a founding editor of 6ix, an annual journal of contemporary poetry, fiction, artwork and reviews, now in its sixth year! Her work has been published in a number of journals including o.blek; Central Park; Aerial; and Chain. Her two recent books include Meeting Tessie from Singing Horse Press, Philadelphia, and Artificial Memory published by Leave Books in Buffalo. A recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council Fellowship for her poetry, Julia has read her work widely including Temple and Brown Universities, The Cleveland New Music Festival, and Small Press Distribution in San Francisco. Julia worked for a number of years as a poet-in-the-schools before becoming a fourth grade teacher--first for eight years in West Philadelphia and currently at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington.
Sunday, 1/31
