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To Be Marquette
In this compelling campus novel, a college freshman exposes hidden secrets as she fights for environmental justice in Marquette. Arriving in Marquette for her freshman year at Northern Michigan Univer...
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July 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The second, by Hollywood director, producer, and writer (and @cmu.edu alum) John Wells, is "The Value of Narrative Storytelling in Polarized Times" dx.doi.org/10.1184/R1/2...
The Value of Narrative Storytelling in Polarized Times
This lecture was first presented on April 9, 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, as part of the President's Lecture Series, by John Wells, Hollywood director, producer, and writer—and ...
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May 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Here's one of our favorites from her latest collection. This is "Sulky Achilles" from Goat-Footed Gods.
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Sulky Achilles That's him over there— alone, on his haunches next to the campfire, playing with a stick, stirring sparks into the hateful sky. "Fuck Agamemnon," he mutters, relicking his paw. He's withdrawn and mopey, grumpy over a girl— he stole her first, gods dammit. Behind him, his buddies, faces fear filled and green, clank swords with the enemy on the wine-colored fields of Troy. He shrugs. He's just not feeling the fury, though wrath has always been his gift, his thing. And he'll unfurl it without mercy on Hector, and Andromache, and Priam, and so on, he will, but that's later. Right now, he's promising himself, he'll never be dumb enough to drop his armor again. Go big or go home, amirite?
April 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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