From Chuck Close to Kara Walker to Jose Clemente Orozco, the artists represented in The New School’s Art Collection are among the most influential names of the last hundred years. Since 1996 the Vera List Center New School Art Collection Writing Awards has fostered a closer connection between the collection and students by calling for [...]
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John Ashbery is arguably America’s greatest and most influential living poet. During his 65-year career, Ashbery has received a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and produced a body of work that includes 26 books of poetry, translations of work by Martory and Rimbaud, collections of prose and criticism, reams of speeches, hours of lectures [...]
Each year, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC ) awards honor a selection of books newly published in the United States in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. These are the only national literary awards chosen by critics themselves. As the writing and literature world awaits the award announcements on February 28, [...]
Following on the heels of the Newschool.edu redesign of December, the university launches its latest in a series of refreshed and refurbished updates—a new and mobile-friendly look for the New School for Public Engagement website. Displaying a similar bold style and intuitive navigation as the main university homepage, the divisional site continues taking contemporary to [...]
The National Book Foundation selected Haley Tanner, an MFA alumna of the creative writing program, as one of this year’s “5 Under 35”, a program celebrating young authors in fiction. She will be honored for her debut novel Vaclav & Lena during an evening that kicks off the National Book Awards Week on Monday, November [...]
Catherine Barnett, who teaches poetry at Creative Writing at The New School, has been awarded the Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award for her 2012 book The Game of Boxes (Graywolf Press). The prize, honoring a poet’s second book, is yet another honor for the much-lauded Barnett, who has also received a Whiting Writers’ Award and a Guggenheim [...]
