Distinguished Writer in Residence Francine Prose Writes a Retrospective on the Literature of the 2000s for the Washington Post
Francine Prose, distinguished writer in residence at Bard and author of 12 novels, contributed an essay on the literature of the 2000s to the Washington Post’s ongoing series celebrating the 75th anniversary of the National Book Awards. Prose, who was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2000, frames the 2000s as a decade when authors reflected the anxiety of current events in their work.
Bard Professor Peter Filkins Receives $50,000 NEH Public Scholars Award in Support of His Book Project Sibyl and Siren: A Life of Ingeborg Bachmann
Peter Filkins, Bard College visiting professor of literature and the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, has been awarded $50,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the writing of his biography of Austria’s most celebrated writer of the postwar era Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973).Peter Filkins’s Translation of Elias Canetti’s The Book Against Death Reviewed in the Wall Street Journal
“This is the first time the complete text of The Book Against Death has appeared in English, compliments of a superlative translation by Peter Filkins,” writes Sam Sacks for the Wall Street Journal. The Book Against Death, translated by Visiting Professor of Literature Peter Filkins from German, is a collection of notes, fragments, and aphorisms that Elias Canetti wrote across half a century.More News
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Francine Prose’s New Memoir 1974 Reviewed in the Los Angeles Times
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Visiting Professor of Literature Peter Filkins Receives Multiple Awards in Support of His Work
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Bard Professor Karen Sullivan Interviewed on New Books in History Podcast
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Professor Susan Fox Rogers Leads Community Birding Walks on Cruger Island Road as Profiled in the Daily Catch
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Acclaimed Fiction Writer Brian Evenson to Give Reading at Bard College on March 25
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Stranger Love by Dylan Mattingly ’14 and Professor Thomas Bartscherer Among New York Times Best Classical Music Performances of 2023
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