Students' Work
Current non-fiction student Anya Sacharow writes about food for Time Ideas: ‘Americans love food demons, and our newest one is wheat. The top-selling diet book of the moment is Wheat Belly, in which a Wisconsin-based cardiologist blames the humble grain for everything from dandruff to dementia. The author, Dr. William Davis, advises to never let the stuff cross your mouth; the inclusion of healthy whole Read more…
Writers’ Institute alum Dahlia Remler has published an essay in The Washington Post, “Facing Brain Surgery, A Health Economist Finds the Healthcare Market Hard to Navigate,” excerpted from her e-book essay “Impossible Choices: The Education of a Health Economist”: “You should never have an HMO,” the neurosurgeon’s secretary told me on the phone, her voice filled with scorn. “You don’t have any out-of-network benefits. Dr. Read more…
Junot Diaz, a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, was recently interviewed by Writers’ Institute alum Dmitry Kiper for NBC New York: Junot Diaz, at the age of 27, became a literary sensation with the publication of his first book, “Drown,” (1996), a collection of short stories. His readers had to wait more than a decade for his second book, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” a Read more…
Writer’s Institute student Shoshana Olidort has a review in the online book review of The Republic. Please read the excerpt below. “The Book of Mischief: New and Selected Stories by Steve Stern WRITING ABOUT THE past is tricky business. In contemporary Jewish fiction, in particular, there is the risk of slipping into a kind of sentimentality—for the lost world of the shtetl and the immigrant Read more…
Elizabeth Alsop, a Writers’ Institute alum, has just published this essay in The New York Times Magazine: In his State of the Union address in 2011, President Obama made a point of applauding the nation’s teachers and exhorted Americans to do the same. “In South Korea,” Obama reminded us, “teachers are known as ‘nation builders.’ . . . It’s time we treated the people who Read more…
Writers’ Institute alum Daniel Hernandez is the El Paso correspondent for The Guardian. In this article he covers the collateral damage of Mexican Cartel Drug War. Read the excerpt below… Cristina Roman didn’t know where to begin. When asked how the epic violence and criminal impunity in her native Ciudad Juarez invaded her own life, she paused, then asked: “How far should I go back?” Read more…
Writers’ Institute alumni Nathan Thrall has a piece in the New York Times Sunday Opinion Section. Read the excerpt below… EARLIER this month, at a private meeting with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his security advisers, a group of Middle East experts and former intelligence officers warned that a third Palestinian intifada was imminent. The immediate catalyst, they said, could be another mosque Read more…
Congratulations to Debora Kuan, who will be publishing “Dog Days of Winter” in The Iowa Review in 2013. This story was submitted in Deborah Treisman’s workshop.
Dmitry Kiper, a current nonfiction fellow, reviews The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years: “In the twenty-five minutes it takes to drive from Berkeley to San Francisco—in the spring of 2010—Greil Marcus made a curious discovery. Flipping through radio stations in search of a good song, he was surprised to notice that The Doors, whose reign lasted only from 1966 to ’71, Read more…
On a blustery November night, a crowd of friends, agents, and editors packed the elegant reading room at the Center for Fiction to hear fourteen writers from the Writers’ Institute read from their works. Several of the authors – with professional careers as journalists, academics, and television producers – had never before read their writing aloud to an invited audience. “It’s exhilarating to hear the Read more…