Medea: Reviewed by Ellen Currier (’15)

4 November 2014

Medea: Reviewed by Ellen Currier (’15) There’s a lot to be said about the National Theatre Live’s production of Medea, an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripedes in a new version…

Alumni Profile: Jess Krzeminski (’10)

4 November 2014

(Zoe Borden, ’15) The Miscellany seeks to connect with English major alumni, recent and not-so-recent. Are you interested in sharing your thoughts on Laird and life after Laird? Please contact…

Jess Krzeminski ’10 sits on a fake Game of Thrones chair

Creative Spotlight: “#EmersonianEyeball”, A Short Story by Henry Southwick

4 November 2014

(Ellen Currier, ’15) Henry Southwick ’15 has taken Intro Creative Writing with Susan Jaret McKinstry and Short Story Workshop with Greg Smith. The short story featured here in the Miscellany…

Fashion Profile: Andry Dejong

4 November 2014

(Nityasya Belapurkar, ’15) The Miscellany introduces a new feature this term – fashion profiles! We’ve asked our most trendy majors about their fashion choices and we’ve found that the inhabitants…

Boo! It’s the Miscellany’s Halloween Scary Story Writing Contest

27 October 2014

The Miscellany announces a Halloween scary story writing contest! Submit your short story, a page or less, to curriere@carleton.edu by Friday, October 31st. The editors will read through the submissions,…

Senior Profile: Claire Ferguson

21 October 2014

Claire Ferguson is the first of the senior English majors to enter the Miscellany’s spotlight this year. Name: Claire Ferguson Hometown: Bethesda, Maryland Favorite place on campus: My favorite place…

Literary Starbucks!

21 October 2014

Literary Starbucks is a blog run by three Carleton students (2nd Laird natives Jill Poskanzer and Wilson Josephson and History major Nora Katz). It attempts to answer the question: “What…

three people holding Starbucks coffee cups

Come Discover the Key to All Mythologies at the English Dept. Marathon!

12 October 2014

Get your sleepover gear ready for the English Department’s annual marathon reading! This year’s pick is George Eliot’s classic novel Middlemarch. We’ll be reading aloud in upper Sayles between 9…

Coming Soon: Steve Hindle, Brian Turner & Peter Frumkin

12 October 2014

There are a number of exciting upcoming events (co)sponsored by (or in some distant manner associated with) the English Department in the following weeks: 1. The English Department invites you…

Norma Cantú Today!

9 October 2014

Norma Cantú will be giving a talk titled “A Chicana Testimonio: the US-Mexico Border,” on Thursday, October 9, 4:30 PM, in the Athenaeum, Gould Library. A reception will follow her…

Norma Cantu