Literature

Poet Carl Phillips read from his work Oct. 14, 2010 as part of the Cornell Creative Writing Program Fall 2010 Reading Se... Read more

For over two decades, Michael Silverblatt has interviewed writers on his radio show, Bookworm, on KCRW. He spoke at Corn... Read more

Fiction writer Lydia Davis read from her work Oct. 28, 2010 as part of the Cornell Creative Writing Program Fall 2010 Re... Read more

M.H. Abrams, a leading authority on 18th- and 19th- century literature, literary criticism and European Romanticism, rei... Read more

Influential French writer, theorist and feminist scholar Hélène Cixous spoke at Cornell on Sept. 21 as part of her first... Read more

Robert Morgan discusses the work of Goldwin Smith Professor of English Emeritus James McConkey. The event was part of th... Read more

Graduating MFA candidate Christopher Lirette read from his work on May 9, 2010 at Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium.

Charles Simic, the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States (2007-2008), was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1938, ... Read more

Patrick Somerville is the author of Trouble, a collection of short stories named by Time Out Chicago as 2006's Best Boo... Read more

Shauna Seliy is the author of the novel When We Get There (Bloomsbury 2007). She has a BA from the University of Pennsyl... Read more