If you want to know how a best-selling author finds inspiration, hones technique, or orchestrates a breakout opportunity, it’s best to go to the source. That’s why legendary professor Frederick Busch designed Living Writers as a way to bring ϲ’s writers-in-training together with famous writers-in-practice. The class quickly became a campus favorite.
Today, professors Jane Pinchin and Jennifer Brice are teaching Living Writers, which they revamped in 2009 for a new generation of undergraduates. They are also engaging nearly 200 alumni, parents, and friends who have registered for LW Online, a distance-learning edition of the course.
Beginning September 19, Pinchin, Brice, and their e-students will discuss five works taken from : books by Alexandra Fuller, Daniel Alarcon, Chimamanda Adichie, Orhan Pamuk, and Salman Rushdie. Their live webcast conversations, featuring President Jeffrey Herbst and other special guests from the ϲ community, will take place prior to the authors’ public appearances in Love Auditorium.
LW Online kicked off with a reception at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City on August 23, and it will close with a special capstone dinner at Merrill House on November 29. Participants are invited to return to ϲ and enjoy a meal with Rushdie after he reads from Joseph Anton.
“We are so excited about LWOnline — by the extraordinary alumni and parent response, by this year’s international theme, and by the writers we will have with us this fall,” said Pinchin.