Contributors: Donald Antrim, Robert Arellano, M. Charles Bakst, Amy DuBois Barnett, Lisa Birnbach, Kate Bornstein, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Mary Caponegro, Susan Cheever, Brian Christian, Pamela Constable, Nicole Cooley, Dana Cowin, Spencer R. Crew, Edwidge Danticat, Dilip D'Souza, David Ebershoff, Jeffrey Eugenides, Richard Foreman, Amity Gaige, Robin Green, Andrew Sean Greer, Christina Haag, Joan Hilty, A.J. Jacobs, Sean Kelly, David Klinghoffer, Jincy Willett Kornhauser, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, David Levithan, Mara Liasson, Lois Lowry, Ira C. Magaziner, Madeline Miller, Christine Montross, Rick Moody, Jonathan Mooney, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Dawn Raffel, Bill Reynolds, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Ruhl, Ariel Sabar, Joanna Scott, Jeff Shesol, David Shields, Krista Tippett, Alfred Uhry, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Meg Wolitzer. Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-292).
Contents:
Preface / Mary Caponegro -- Entropy and the ecstasy / In Brunensis speramus / Sean Kelly -- Sun under cloud cover / Jeffrey Eugenides -- Train rides / Lois Lowry -- Invisible histories / Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- Bartleby at Brown / Jincy Willett Kornhauser -- Indirection / Donald Antrim -- Bending the letter / Brian Christian -- Campus life. Campus tour : my life in poetry at Brown / Nicole Cooley -- Day President John F. Kennedy died / Susan Cheever -- You / Amity Gaige -- BDH editor soars, stumbles, snags a wife / M. Charles Bakst -- Number one tofu scramble with Johnny Toast / Robert Arellano -- That October / Christina Haag -- How Brown's food changed my life / Dana Cowin -- Net / David Levithan -- Love is a long, close scrutiny / David Shields -- Academic life. Higher learning/ Marilynne Robinson -- Syllabus (Annotated) / Rick Moody -- My own core curriculum / Marie Myung-Ok Lee -- Your dinner with Susan Sontag / Joanna Scott -- Place of lucky accidents / Dawn Raffel -- Doctor poet? / Christine Montross -- Cursing my way to enlightenment / A.J.Jacobs -- Entropy and the ecstasy / Mary Caponegro -- Times / What are you anyway? / Joan Hilty -- Mix tape / Andrew Sean Greer -- Wheel of the Fuji goes round / Dilip D'Souza -- How Brown turned me into a right-wing religious conservative / David Klinghoffer -- Townie / Robin Green -- Dyslexic brain kicks ass / Jonathan Mooney -- Neat-hairs / Ariel Sabar -- Beautiful girls / Kate Bornstein -- Self-discovery. Sleepwalking at Brown / Meg Wolitzer -- Help me help you (help me) / Lisa Birnbach -- Jump shots / Bill Reynolds -- Faith and doubt at Brown / Krista Tippett -- Did I really found production workshop? / Richard Foreman -- Residential life / David Ebershoff -- Politics. Escape from the Planet of the Apes / Jeff Shesol -- Talking 'bout my generation/ Ira C Magaziner -- Creating change : Black at Brown in the 1960s / Spencer R. Crew -- Need-blind now! / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum -- Times / Joan Hilty -- Giant steps / To be young, indignant, and inspired / Afaa Michael Weaver. And yet again wonderful / Alfred Uhry -- My honorary degree and the factory forewoman / Edwidge Danticat -- Is playwriting teachable? (the example of Paula Vogel) / Sarah Ruhl -- How I became a freelance writer at Brown / Mara Liasson -- In Troy there lies the scene / Madeline Miller -- Giant steps / Afaa Michael Weaver.
Summary:
"In celebration of Brown University's 250th anniversary, fifty remarkable, prizewinning writers and artists who went to Brown provide unique stories--many published for the first time--about their adventures on College Hill. Funny, poignant, subversive, and nostalgic, the essays, comics, and poems in this collection paint a vivid picture of college life, from the 1950s to the present, at one of America's most interesting universities."--Page [4] of cover.
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