A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (Incoming Writing Fellow 2021) and The Promise by Damon Galgut (CRF 2007, DG 2010) have both been shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. “Anuk Arudpragasam’s masterful novel is an attempt to come to terms with life in...
Cathy Park Hong (CRF 2021) has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2021 by TIME. Pick up an issue with Cathy Park Hong on the cover at a newsstand near you. Ali Wong writes: “I annotated the hell out of Minor Feelings—it’s the kind of book you...
The following Civitellians have been awarded fellowships by Macdowell for Fall 2021 or Spring 2022: composers Andrea Clearfield (CRF 2013), Sivan Eldar (CRF 2021), Sky Macklay (CRF 2019), and Nina C. Young (CRF 2019); poet Kemi Alabi (Incoming Writing Fellow 2022);...
In “9/11: Trials And Triumphs Of The ‘Tribute In Light,’” in the Village Voice, Monika Bravo (CRF 2021) reflects on her memories of the Towers, her lost friend, and the power of the ‘Tribute in Light’ monument twenty years after the tragic...
Last week, an interview with Lauren Groff (CRF 2021) was featured on Shelf Life, ELLE.com’s books column. Groff talks about some of her favorite reads, from George Eliot’s Middlemarch to Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666....
Wednesday, September 15th 2021Welcome cocktail at 6:00pmPresentation begins at 6:15pm As one of the authors of the Renaissance, the painter and mathematician Piero della Francesca was aware of rebirth and history, and therefore of time. Yet, time is not a...
