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Alex Medina ’22, a creative writing and Hispanic studies major, shares his story of combining full-time remote studies with work at a bilingual newspaper in his hometown of Los Angeles.
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Never before has the American Prison Writing Archive received such well-deserved attention as that generated by "Welcome to 'The Zo',” a new series of videos from The Marshall Project.
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After graduation, Danny Berger ’20 will join City Year in Philadelphia to work at a school in an underserved or low-income community.
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This summer, Haruna Shimizu ’21 is interning at Columbia University Medical Center. There, she furthers her science writing abilities while learning about new developments in the medical world.
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Myranda “Randy” Tristant ’22 knows the world can be “uncomfortable” and “dirty,” but she also knows that it can be a place to heal and reflect, which is exactly what her writing and art aim to do.
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The Hamilton community warmly welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen on April 9 as part of the Winton Tolles Lecture Series. A group of students and faculty members joined Nguyen for dinner in the Philip Spencer House to talk before convening in the Chapel for his presentation titled “Refugee Stories and American Greatness.”
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Emily Liu ’19, a creative writing major and education studies minor, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Taiwan.
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As college students, we read novels, short stories, textbooks, even perhaps poems or memoirs. We write essays, lab reports, Blackboard discussion posts. We read and write every single day, yet how much do we know about how a book goes from a manuscript to a product in Barnes & Noble? How many people are a part of the process? Who is behind that book description on Amazon?
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Alumna author Annie Hartnett ’08 returned to Hamilton for a reading of her novel Rabbit Cake on March 6. After her reading she sat down to talk about how Hamilton helped her find her voice as a writer.
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We are all too familiar with the pressing question of our childhood: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Our answers were often times idealistic but impractical, typically inspired by the superheroes we looked up to, the fairies we read about in books, or the astronauts we imagined as we peered up into space.
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