Writers at Sonoma
Writers at Sonoma is a program that brings nationally and internationally regarded writers to campus to give readings and meet with students. All readings are open to the public. To register to attend one of the readings presented through Zoom, make sure you follow the link and fill in your email so we can send you the Zoom link.
Writers at Sonoma, Spring 2022 schedule
LAWRENCE WESCHLER was, for over twenty years (1981-2002), a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award (for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992) and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998).His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland (1984); A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (1990); and Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas (1998).His “Passions and Wonders” series currently comprises Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin (1982); David Hockney’s Cameraworks (1984); Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder (1995); A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces (1998) Boggs: A Comedy of Values (1999); Robert Irwin: Getty Garden (2002); Vermeer in Bosnia (2004); and Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences (February 2006). Mr. Wilson was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Everything that Rises received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Weschler has taught, variously, at Princeton, Columbia, UCSC, Bard, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, Brown, and NYU, where he was distinguished writer in residence at the Carter Journalism Institute.
Juvenal Acosta is the author of five novels including a trilogy of noir novels Trilogía Negra (El cazador de tatuajes, Terciopelo violento, and La hora ciega), and a neogothic vampire novel: Tenebroso. His most recent novel, La puerta del Círculo Polar Ártico (The Arctic Circle's door) was published in June of 2021 in Latin America. Acosta writes fiction in his native language, Spanish. Only one of his novels, The Tattoo Hunter, has been translated into English.
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Past writers have included Alice Notley, Yusef Komunyakaa, Joanne Kyger, Brian Evenson, Yiyun Li, Courtney Lamar Charleston, and Hoa Nygen.
Learn more about the speakers from 2021 by checking out our previous speaker flyers, spring 2021
*Sponsored by Instructionally Related Activities and the English Department, Sonoma State University