TNS Lit Scene
Lit news aggregated by the School of Writing at the New School
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Alice Eve Cohen Wins New School Distinguished Teaching Award
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / April 14, 2020New School Creative Writing Program faculty member Alice Eve Cohen has won a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award. Alice is a solo theater artist, playwright and memoirist who is also a 1999 graduat...
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MFA Alum Jessica Gross on Her Debut Novel “Hysteria”
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / April 14, 2020By Carissa Chesanek Jessica Gross is a New School MFA alum, writer, and soon-to-be published author. Carissa Chesanek sat down with Gross to chat about her forthcoming book, Hysteria, her revision...
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Creative Writing: Spring 2020 Online Events
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene / April 7, 2020The New School Creative Writing Program has moved four of our upcoming writing forum events online. Click each link below to register and receive information about how to attend, via livestream. ...
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Five Questions With Minerva Martinez
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / April 1, 2020Minerva Martinez is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Evergreen Review, W42ST Magazine and Newtown Literary Journal. 1. Who is your favorite villain, and who...
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LIT MAGAZINE INTERVIEW SERIES WITH TEDDY WAYNE
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, Publications of the School of Writing, MFA, Lit, MFA Creative Writing Events / March 30, 2020JOIN US TUESDAY, MARCH 31 AT 6 p.m. LIT Magazine has just launched a new book review and interview series. In this series, we offer a book review, a PDF of part of the book (when possible), and a ...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC BIOGRAPHY FINALIST CHARLES KING
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, MFA Creative Writing Events, 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Biography Finalist Interviews 2019, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 16, 2020by Zach Schwab Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and facu...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Criticism Award Winner Saidiya Hartman
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Criticism Finalist Interviews 2019, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 13, 2020by Yannise Jean Saidiya Hartman’s book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, is a radical, lyrical and intimate examination of the lives of the “ordinary...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC BIOGRAPHY FINALIST GEORGE PACKER
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, MFA Creative Writing Events, 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Biography Finalist Interviews 2019, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 12, 2020Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and faculty, we are able to...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC NONFICTION FINALIST LYDIA DAVIS
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Nonfiction Finalist Interviews 2019, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 9, 2020by Pune Dracker At the back of the bus,inside the bathroom,this very small illegal passenger,on its way to Boston.-- “The Fly,” Lydia Davis A classic short story—yes, short story—from the w...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC FICTION FINALIST EDWIDGE DANTICAT
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2019 NBCC Finalist Interviews, NBCC Fiction Finalist Interviews 2019, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 6, 2020by Heran Abate Edwidge Danticat’s Everything Inside is a finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction. This short story collection takes us into the intimate depths of characters grappling to commu...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 WINNER OF THE BALAKIAN PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWING KATY WALDMAN
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 6, 2020By Ladane Nasseri Katy Waldman is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Previously, she was a staff writer at Slate, where she wrote about language, culture, and politics, and hosted the Slat...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC POETRY FINALIST ILYA KAMINSKY
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 6, 2020By Jessalyn Johnson In his book Deaf Republic, award-winning poet Ilya Kaminsky explores political disorder in a community where the people are united in a time of tragedy, uncertai...
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Five Questions With Ahmad Al-Ashqar
By Nicole Drayton / in TNS Lit Scene / March 5, 2020Ahmad Al-Ashqar is a nomadic, romantic, illmatic Palestinian-American poet-translator. Soon after his birth in Kuwait, at the start of the Gulf War his family was displaced to Jordan before movin...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC AUTOBIOGRAPHY FINALIST MIRA JACOB
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 4, 2020By Ramya Ramana Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and fac...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC NONFICTION FINALIST RACHEL LOUISE SNYDER
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 4, 2020by LaVonne Elaine Roberts Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our student...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Poetry Finalist Morgan Parker
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 3, 2020By Masha Shollar Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the author of the poetry collections Magical Negro (Tin House 2019), There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin ...
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Interview with 2019 NBCC Nonfiction Finalist Patrick Radden Keefe
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 3, 2020by Plamena Malinova Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and ...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC NONFICTION FINALIST PETER HESSLER
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 2, 2020by Michael Schmale Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and f...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC POETRY FINALIST MARY RUEFLE
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 2, 2020by Gina Chung Thanks to the cooperation of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and Creative Writing at The New School, as well as the tireless efforts of our students and facult...
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INTERVIEW WITH 2019 NBCC FICTION FINALIST VALERIA LUISELLI
By Creative Writing at The New School / in TNS Lit Scene, 2020 NBCC Finalists Interviews / March 2, 2020By Vanessa Chan Thoughtful, quiet, and yet at times troubling and terrifying, Valeria Luiselli’s novel Lost Children Archive refuses to conform. It is a story of a road trip, a journey of an e...
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