Times Picayune Originally Posted: September 9, 2015 ‘Wading Home’: Opera explores the Katrina experience of a New Orleans family “This is simply a wonderfully told, beautiful story and ought to be appealing to any reader who loves a wonderful story. It’s not about the disaster. This is a book about how as a consequence of […]
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SMU News DALLAS (SMU) — When SMU creative writing director David Haynes started planning this summer’s Kimbilio Literary Retreat, a weeklong excursion to SMU-in-Taos for African American fiction writers, he knew he’d need a helping hand. Where to look? He quickly made up his mind to recruit help from his spring intermediate fiction writing class. […]
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Acclaim continues for book about escaped slave SMU English Professor Ezra Greenspan’s acclaimed biography William Wells Brown: An African American Life (W.W. Norton) is a finalist for the prestigious Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African-American experience. READ MORE
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: July 21, 2015 Southern Methodist University is building a supportive relationship between black fiction writers and an SMU sister campus in Taos, N.M. Black fiction writers are encouraged to consider attending future sessions of the Kimbilio Retreat at the SMU-in-Taos campus. Participants are winding up this year’s retreat, which began […]
July 2015 – D Magazine By Ben Fountain “A hundred years is a long life,” says Willard Spiegelman one warm spring Saturday in the office of the Southwest Review, the magazine he’s edited for the past 30 years. We’re on the fourth floor of Fondren Library at SMU, with a view out the window of rooftops […]
D MAGAZINE JUNE 2015 Made in Dallas Fifty years ago, we were the nation’s third-largest garment center. Today, a new generation of entrepreneurs is putting those old sewing machines back to work. BY DICK REAVIS Stubble-bearded, self-confident Matt Alexander, a 27-year-old Brit born of a Galveston mother, is on his way to becoming a titan […]
‘Throttled Peacock’ offers wry observations on European vacation and marriage New travelogue by SMU Professor emeritus C.W. Smith DALLAS (SMU) — Two Americans traveling Europe on the cheap with a packet of chili powder in their suitcase – what’s the worst that could go wrong? Turns out, quite a lot. A Throttled Peacock: Observations on […]
Advocate Originally Posted: May 24, 2015 Danny Heitman’s “At Random”: Sage advice for 2015 graduates We’re coming to the end of commencement season, that time of year when sage advice blooms from graduation podiums across America. Nothing I’ve heard this month, though, sounds any wiser than a speech by Willard Spiegelman to students at his […]
Congratulations to the Dedman College faculty members who are newly tenured as associate professors or have been promoted to full professorships to begin the 2015-16 academic year. The following individuals received tenure or promotion effective Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Recommended for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor: Angela Ards, English Greg Brownderville, English Justin […]