Our anniversary event listing is up and ready to be viewed. Taking place throughout 2019, our wide-ranging anniversary programming will highlight our international Fellows and Director’s Guests at venues in Europe and NYC. For more information on individual gatherings...
Rick Barot (CRF 2011), a Tacoma writer who is the poetry editor for New England Review and director of The Rainier Writing Workshop, an MFA program in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University, will speak about “The Personal and the Political” at Vashon Center...
Hunter Braithwaite writing for BOMB on Sam Lipsyte (CRF 2012)’s novel Hark. He writes, “Always hilarious, Lipsyte has often been something of visionary: a subway howler, an outer-borough oracle. Over his previous three novels and two collections of...
The NBCC announced its 31 finalists in six categories––autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry––for the outstanding books of 2018. Many Civitellians were listed including… Autobiography: Rigoberto Gonzalez (CRF 2013) for What...
The IDS Public Lecture Series, designed as an introduction to some of the most pressing questions driving contemporary thought and practice, consists of lectures by artists, theorists, scientists, activists, writers, and other practitioners involved in the arts from...
Mouthful of Birds is Samanta Schweblin (CRF 2011)’s second book to appear in English, after 2017’s phenomenal Fever Dream, which was also translated expertly by Megan McDowell. In an interview with Rain Taxi , Schweblin said: “For me, even in the most subtle...
