Alumni News
Rendering the Unthinkable Gesture, a nearly 3000-part installation of small paintings by Manju Shandler ’95, is included in the exhibition “Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11” at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Each painting is meant to evoke a particular victim. The show opens on September 12.
"Neruda Wrote Me A Poem"Roa Lynn ’60 wrote a piece that appeared in The New Yorker earlier this summer about having lunch with Pablo Neruda in June, 1968, and the poem he wrote for her inspired by that meeting. Lynn links her memory of Neruda to hearing the news of Bobby Kennedy's assassination, and an attempted murder she witnessed from the window of a bus while traveling in Argentina.
Pretty Girls Are Supposed to SmileEffy Redman '04 recently published a piece in The New York Times about growing up with Moebius Syndrome, a condition that renders her unable to smile or make most other facial expressions. In the article, Redman meditates on the difficulties she deals with as a person unable to participate in the many-layered and surprisingly vital social mechanism that is a simple smile.
Young MFAW '11 Publishes Debut Fiction The Lost Girls, the debut novel of Heather Young MFAW '11, was published this summer by William Morrow. The Lost Girls, while not her first published work, is her first work of fiction.
'Nitro Mountain' Praised in New York Times Lee Clay Johnson '07 is the author of Nitro Mountain, which was published this spring by Knopf. It has been favorably reviewed by several literary journals including Kirkus and Electric Literature and most recently, by the New York Times.