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Visiting Speaker: David Henry Hwang on “Authenticity and its Discontents”

24 January 2017

Rejoice, readers, for the Second Laird Miscellany brings you an interview with guest lecturer and famous playwright David Henry Hwang in preparation for his visit to Carleton! Mr. Hwang is…

Meet the New Miscellany Editors!

30 May 2016

It’s the end of the year, and the time has come to pass the baton to next year’s editors of the Second Laird Miscellany, Leslie Mei (’17) and Jenan Jacobson (’18)!…

Meet the New Majors!

18 April 2016

This year, we’ve got a crop of twenty new majors. To get to know them, we’ve asked them three questions: Where are you from? What was the last book you…

Meet the Editors of the Second Laird Miscellany

10 February 2016

  In our terms-long tenure at the Second Laird Miscellany, we’ve repeatedly been asked how the blog works and who is responsible for its publication. So, we thought we’d (belatedly) introduce…

Introducing Meggan Clapp!

12 November 2015

Things are always changing on Second Laird, and this year, the English department has added a crucial new member to the team, Administrative Assistant Meggan Clapp. The Miscellany checks in…

Outside of Laird: Literary Athletes/Athletic Literati

5 October 2015

To ring in the new academic year, today the Miscellany celebrates the liberal arts student with a reminder that not every English major is just an English major. Here is…

The Spring 2016 London Program Deadline Is Approaching!

18 April 2015

Applications for the London program are due on Monday, so here’s a blurb for the Miscellany/Facebook page. There’s still time to spend next Spring Term in sunny London, England! Applications…

A Poetry Reading by Stephen Kampa (’05)

21 September 2014

The English Department cordially invites you to a reading by poet and musician Stephen Kampa (’05). Stephen’s first book, Cracks in the Invisible, won the 2010 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize…

Help Choose the Book for the Next Marathon Reading

6 May 2014

Dear Sophomore and Junior English Majors and Faculty, The department has decided to try a new angle in deciding what book shall be the center of next year’s Marathon Reading…

Kudos to Greg Hewett!

4 March 2014

Congratulations to Prof. Greg Hewett, who has been chosen as the Quatrefoil Library’s first writer-in-residence! The Quatrefoil Library is one of the country’s oldest and largest lending libraries to foster…