Writer’s Resource Lab 20th Anniversary Celebration
Continental breakfast, a full lunch, and parking will be provided, and there will be special speakers, presentations, and tours of the current WRL facility.
More information will be announced in the coming weeks.
Spout Hill Press Releases Three Novellas by Gerald Locklin
Spout Hill Press recently released Gerald Locklin’s Bear Trilogy: a reprint of The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen and the follow-up novellas Come Back, Bear and Last Tango in Long Beach.
As noted on the publisher’s website, Spout Hill Press is “dedicated to the beauty and elegance that can be found only in the novella. We publish works of this length because so many of our favorite works were written in this form. Our mission is to publish the best novellas we read, whether they are from long-established writers or those who are new to the field.”
The following descriptions of Locklin’s novellas are from the Spout Hill Press website:
The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen is Gerald Locklin’s classic post-modern epic of Los Angeles and gumshoe detectives. At once homage and spoof, the novella follows Bear, a private detective, as he searches for the eponymous blue Volkswagen through the meanest streets of the West Coast and into a more dangerous world, his subconscious. The novella is at once a comedy, a discussion of the detective genre, and a look into the various cultures and subcultures of the 1970s.
Come Back, Bear is Gerald Locklin’s long awaited sequel to The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen. Where Locklin explored the subconscious and the idea of the detective novel in the first novella of the series, here he delves into the Western novel and the idea of loyalty. Locklin is at his best here as he becomes irreverent in his relationships, his love of the classic cowboy novel, and his view of America.
Last Tango in Long Beach completes Gerald Locklin’s trilogy of post-modern novellas that began with The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen and continued with Come Back, Bear. In this final story, Locklin explores the 1970s sex drama but backs away from his classic humor to take an inside look at the politics of a real couple. It takes a painfully accurate view of the way life can be in the long run even with people who love each other.
Come celebrate Locklin’s new Sprout Hill Press Releases at Gatsby Books (5535 E. Spring St. Long Beach 90808) on March 7, 2013, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Locklin will read and sign his novellas (already on sale at Gatsby Books).
Gerald Locklin is now a professor emeritus of English at California State University, Long Beach, where he taught from 1965 to 2007, and continues as an occasional part-time lecturer. He has published over 3000 poems, stories, articles, reviews, and interviews in periodicals, and is the author of over 125 books, chapbooks, and broadsides of poetry, fiction, and criticism. Locklin‘s poetry will appear in the upcoming Silver Birch Press Green Anthology, scheduled to be released March 15, 2013. Click here to visit Locklin’s website.
The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA): Thesis Informational Session
The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) welcomes students who are writing, or thinking about writing, a master’s thesis to the Thesis Informational Session led by Dr. Sarah Arroyo. In addition to Dr. Arroyo’s presentation, a panel will discuss the processes of writing a thesis, addressing such topics as writing a thesis proposal, forming a thesis committee, and organizing research materials. The panel consists of English graduate students who are currently writing theses in Rhetoric and Composition, Digital Rhetoric, and Literature.
For more information, please visit the Thesis Informational Session Facebook page.
Re/Inventions 2013: Graduate Student Conference — CFP Deadline Extended to February 15, 2013
The Annual Graduate Student Conference, Re/Inventions 2013, welcomes scholars from across the disciplines to submit abstracts that interrogate historical outlooks and consider future implications of the theme “Hysteria.”
The CFP deadline has been extended to Friday, February 15th, 2013. Please see the CFP for specific information about this year’s theme and submission guidelines. For more information, please visit the Re/Inventions page on the Department of English website and the Re/Inventions Facebook page. You may also send an email to egsa.csulb@gmail.com.
Director Irek Dobrowolski Screens and Discusses His Award-Winning Documentary Film “The Portraitist”
Director Irek Dobrowolski screened and discussed his award-winning Holocaust documentary film The Portraitist on Thursday, November 29, 2012, at CSULB’s University Student Union Auditorium. The Portraitist recounts the photography and story of Wilhelm Brasse who was sent to Auschwitz as a political prisoner in 1940. For five years, the Nazis forced Brasse, later nicknamed “the photographer of Auschwitz,” to photograph more than 40,000 prisoners in Auschwitz for “identity pictures.”
Click here to watch Dr. Stephen Cooper’s introduction to the film screening, and here to watch the Q&A session with Irek Dobrowolski.
Co-hosts: The College of Liberal Arts, Jewish Studies Program, Department of English, and Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literature
Visiting Writers Series 2012-2013: Readings — Brantingham, Buckley, and Tayyar
Join us for an evening of poetry, short fiction, and independent publishing talk, featuring poet John Brantingham, author of East of Los Angeles (Anaphora Press, 2011), short story writer Mike Buckley, author of Miniature Men (World Parade Books, 2011), and poet Paul Tayyar, publisher of World Parade Books.
All readings in the 2012-13 Visiting Writers Series are free and open to the public, and are co-sponsored by CSULB’s Department of English, English Students’ Association (ESA), and HipPoetics Creative Writing Club.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
Click here to access the Visiting Writers program page on the Department of English website.
Visiting Writers Series 2012-2013: Reading — Christina Adams
Christina Adams is the author of the memoir A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention, and Recovery (Berkley Books/Penguin USA, 2005).
All readings in the 2012-13 Visiting Writers Series are free and open to the public, and are co-sponsored by CSULB’s Department of English, English Students’ Association (ESA), and HipPoetics Creative Writing Club.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.
Click here to access the Visiting Writers program page on the Department of English website.
