The Office’s B.J. Novak releases debut of wry, absurdist stories

February 20, 2014 5:00 pm0 comments

In a deadpan, humdrum voice, B. J. Novak will whisper surrealist and imaginatively absurd stories into your ear. You may laugh, but Novak’s whisper both tingles and confounds. Each story reads like a journal entry, a simple, mundane, insignificant, quiet detail of life. But when one attempts to breach the […]

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The Glascock Committee prepares for 91st annual poetry competition

February 6, 2014 7:11 pm0 comments
The Glascock Committee prepares for 91st annual poetry competition

In 1923, an uncommonly talented young poet named Kathryn Irene Glascock—already published in Vanity Fair and Poetry—passed away soon after graduating from Mount Holyoke College. The same year, the college’s Department of English established the Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Competition to honor her memory, enabled by a gift from her parents. […]

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