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Creative Writing

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One Good Deed

One Good Deed: Audry Lynch (Wheelock’67)

November 16, 2023

Photo: Fran Drescher, President of SAG, is swarmed by news outlets as she heads to a press call. She is wearing all white and stands in the middle while cameras and microphones surround her.

SAG-AFTRA STRIKE

Hollywood Strikes. BU Acting Alums Explain Why Their Fight Matters

July 21, 2023

Photo: Artistic director Dariel Suarez (GRS’12) (left) and founder and executive director Eve Bridburg (GRS’97) sit and pose on a set of bright yellow stairs. Each step has the words "Get writing" printed on them in white. A latino man wearing a grey beret, grey shirt, and black pants sits and smiles with hands clasped in front of him. To his right, a white woman wearing a grey dress, black pantyhose, and red chunky necklace smiles and sits with one hand in lap and one on the stair.

Arts & Culture

Making Big Moves at GrubStreet

March 17, 2023

Composite image. At left, a portrait of Kim Stanley Robinson, an older white man with short gray hair and glasses. He half smiles and wears a thick suit jacket with a pale green dress shirt. At right, a sci-fi looking illustration in deep blue, purple and green colors. It features what looks like an eye at center, with butterflies bottom left and top right, and a hand holding a bright orb. A moon, circuit board, and clouds are also seen.

SPECIAL ISSUE: BU RESEARCH

Kim Stanley Robinson on the Importance of Imagination

May 16, 2022

Photo of Weike Wang (GRS’15), a young Asian American woman with shoulder length brown hair and turtle glass. She wears a black blouse and spotted green and yellow skirt and sits with her hands folded as she slightly smiles.

Books

In Alum Weike Wang’s New Novel, Joan Is Okay, a Chinese American Doctor Navigates Job and Family

May 16, 2022

A composite image with the book covers of The Art Of Revision: The Last Word, The Artist And The Eternal City: Bernini, Pope Alexander Vii, And The Making Of Rome, Banned In Boston, The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, And Boston’s Struggle For Justice, Flame In A Stable, The Legendary Toad’s Place: Stories From New Haven’s Famed Music Venue, Music Is Murder, Payback’s A Witch, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, And The Global Battle For Cultural Supremacy, and They Called Us Girls: Stories Of Female Ambition From Suffrage To Mad Men

Books

Reading List: New Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by BU Alums Peter Ho Davies, Daniel M. Kimmel, Jan Brogan, and Others

May 16, 2022

Writer and novelist Dariel Suarez (CFA’12) sits in his office with his laptop open on a desk behind him.

Arts & Culture

The “American Dirt” Controversy: Lessons for Writers on Getting Cultures Right

February 24, 2020

Lisa Rosinsky inside Boston Public Library office

Arts & Culture

A Room of Her Own

February 23, 2017

A Room of Her Own