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How Long Will I Cry    E-Book Event Join the Department of English for an exciting event this Tuesday, November fifth. We will be celebrating the e-book launch for How Long Will I Cry. Both graduate and undergrad students who collected the oral histories printed in the book will be present for a reading. In addition, Borja Cabada will screen the engaging trailer he created for the book. Afterward, a discussion will be held about the How Long Will I Cry and Big Shoulder Books. The event will be Tuesday, Nov. 5th from 6:00 – 7:00… Read Article →

The Scholar’s Vaudeville Hosted by the Haines Sisters In the Humanities Center’s final fall 2013 event in our “Radical Interdisciplinarity” series, the most radical mash-up of genres and disciplines comes to DePaul as the century-old tradition of vaudeville meets contemporary academia. Originally derived from voix de ville (“the voice of the city”), vaudeville literally gave voice to the myriad ways in which the city was alive from the late-19th century until the Great Depression. With this event, the Humanities Center, in conjunction with Chicago artists The Haines Sisters, will give voice to the tradition once… Read Article →

Miles Harvey will be discussing How Long Will I Cry? and Big Shoulders Books on WBEZ radio this afternoon at 2 pm.  To listen to WBEZ on your computer, visit here and follow the link to Listen Live.  WBEZ is on the radio dial at 91.5 AM.

Chicago Book Expo 2013 is coming to St. Augustine College Chicago Book Expo is a group of volunteers whose mission is to celebrate Chicago’s vital indie publishing scene. The Expo originated in 2011 as a project of Chicago Writers House. Forty publishers participated, and a wide array of workshops and other events accompanied the Expo; here’s a link to the previous site, with more information about it. Since then, a variety of pop-up events at the Empty Bottle have continued to bring readers and indie publishers together. The Expo will be from 11-5 on Sunday, November 24th… Read Article →

EGSA is going to see Lemony Snicket (whose real name is actually Daniel Handler) speak this Friday from 6pm-7pm as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. Snicket is the author of the A Series of Unfortunate Events books as well as the All the Wrong Questions series. Tickets are $10 with your student ID. Click here to buy them. You can RSVP to the event here. From the Chicago Humanities Festival Website: Through a series of quite fortunate events, Lemony Snicket, literary superstar and character mysterioso, will grace the CHF stage. Or perhaps it will be… Read Article →

Career Night for English Students First, James Phelps, Undergraduate Advisor, will discuss how students can best prepare themselves for the various careers open to English graduates. Second, Chris Green, Director of Internships will discuss the English Department’s Internship Program. Then, the following panel will present career options in non-profits and answer student questions. Panel: Careers in Non-Profits for English Students Zach Duffy currently serves as the Director of Education at 826CHI. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison, with a major in English and an emphasis on Creative Writing. Upon graduation,… Read Article →

Join us for our next Visiting Writers Series event with Davy Rothbart, October 17, 6 p.m., Richardson Library Room 115. Davy Rothbart is the creator of Found Magazine, a frequent contributor to public radio’s This American Life, and the author of a book of personal essays, My Heart Is An Idiot, and a collection of stories, The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. He writes regularly for GQ Magazine and Grantland, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Believer. His documentary film, Medora, about a resilient high-school basketball… Read Article →

One Book, One Chicago: Music and the Great Migration Wednesday, October 16 at 6:00 PM As Isabel Wilkerson writes in The Warmth of Other Suns, “The music the migrants carried north with them … became … essentially the soundtrack of the twentieth century.” Join Chicago entrepreneur Herman Roberts and author Scott Blackwood as they discuss the music of the Great Migration by way of Roberts’ personal narrative and Blackwood’s scholarly work. DePaul University assistant professor of English Miles Harvey will moderate. Music and The Great Migration Wednesday, October 16, 6:00 p.m. DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus… Read Article →

Chicago Writers Conference is happy to announce its new partnership with Lillstreet Loft! Lillstreet Art Center offers arts education for all skill levels, a gallery, an artist residency program, studio space, and a community outreach program, and writers retreats. Lillstreet Loft will host a bookmaking retreat on November 3; read more about it here. Lillstreet Loft is our newest partner in our Writers Night Out workshop series. Join us at Lillstreet for Podcasting for Writers on November 4. Margaret Larkin will teach you how to record, edit, and publish your podcast online. Register before October 28… Read Article →