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When the BBC asked a panel of writers, curators, and critics to choose “100 genre-busting novels that have had an impact on their lives,” Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie ’94 made the list.
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Jake Zappala ’12 earned a doctorate in atomic physics at the University of Chicago, but he’s stayed true to his other favorite academic subject. Zappala writes novels for fun.
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Meredith Jones ’19 and Jasmine Murray ’19 received the FAO Schwarz Fellowship, a highly selective paid two-year Fellowship in Social Impact. The Fellowship includes a paid position with a leading nonprofit, personalized mentoring, and extensive professional development experiences.
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It was the only cover letter in which he mentioned his undergraduate thesis (it was about Vladimir Nabokov’s representation of memory), and he thinks it helped. Tom Lewek ’09 landed the job with the Modern Language Association, a force in the humanities since 1883.
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Madeline Carlman ’19 has been awarded the college’s Bristol Fellowship for her project “Creating Community in Book Places.” She’ll examine how book places such as libraries, book shops, book clubs, and book fairs work to create community.
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This is a story of a creative partnership, Hamilton style. It began when two strangers were assigned to be first-year roommates. In the latest chapter of the continuing friendship, one writes a novel, and the other helps get it published.
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After a semester in Madrid last year through Hamilton’s Academic Year in Spain, Sabrina Boutselis ’19 fell in love with Spanish culture and became fascinated with the growing emphasis on Spanish-English bilingual education. As a result, she applied for and was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Galicia, Spain.
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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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Henry Shuldiner ’19 has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Colombia. A literature major from Washington, D.C., he studied in the School for International Training’s Education and Social Change Program in Santiago, Chile, in 2018.
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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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