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Emma Terhaar | Thursday, February 12, 2015
Lynne Tillman is a lady writer I heard read at the Eck Visitors Center on Feb. 11, a very special experience. English professor Steve Tomasula said in Tillman’s novel “Haunted Houses,” Tillman is like an ethnographer who happens to be studying 20th century American girls. Tillman read from “Haunted Houses” despite the strangeness of returning to a work she finished
Emma Terhaar | Monday, October 6, 2014
Notre Dame is less homogenous than it once was. Two student-written, -directed and -acted plays that opened last week are a harbinger of our campus culture’s growing richness. ND Theatre NOW! sponsored the production of the two one-act plays, each written by senior Film, Television and Theatre and English majors, which debuted Oct. 2 and will run
Emma Terhaar | Thursday, April 24, 2014
A hot new country music artist comes to Legends on Friday. Jokes. Jamie Lynn Spears comes to Legends on Friday at 10 p.m. She is young though, and she has recorded a country music song, so I was not being entirely facetious. She literally has just the one song out. Her debut album has not
Emma Terhaar | Sunday, March 2, 2014
“I’m still not a country fan, that guy was just a great performer!” said junior Lucas Sullivan, resident of Keough Hall, as he justified how much he enjoyed himself Saturday night at Legends Country Fest featuring Jon Pardi and Thomas Rhett. Legends was packed, as it should have been. Both acts are breakout stars
Emma Terhaar | Friday, February 28, 2014
Saturday is a much-anticipated day for many students on campus. All the iPhone countdowns that have ticked away for months will culminate at 10 p.m. at Legends Night Club for the Jon Pardi and Thomas Rhett free concert. Both big-time performers in the country circuit right now, Pardi and Rhett have several songs on the
Emma Terhaar | Sunday, February 9, 2014
In June 1996, renowned American poet Robert Creeley wrote a letter to Kurt Vonnegut, thanking him for sending a note to his 12-year-old daughter, Hannah. Vonnegut had come to breakfast at Creeley’s home years earlier and met Hannah, then 8. In 1996, she mentioned having met Vonnegut to her friends and understandably they did not
Emma Terhaar | Thursday, February 6, 2014
A symposium titled “Robert Creeley’s Library: The Poet’s Books as Art Museum and Network of Communications” is being held today in the Special Collections of the Hesburgh Library (Special Collections faces across from the fishbowl). Not many undergraduates are aware, but Notre Dame owns the personal library of famous American poet Robert Creeley. The university
Emma Terhaar | Tuesday, February 4, 2014
James Redwood, the first winner of the “Notre Dame Review” Book Prize for Fiction, will read at the Eck Center on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. In order to be eligible for this prize, writers must have been published in the “Notre Dame Review” (NDR) before but must not have published a full volume of fiction
Emma Terhaar | Tuesday, January 28, 2014
This evening, Notre Dame’s Creative Writing Program will have its first reading of the semester. Valerie Sayers, the celebrated author of six novels, will be sharing her work. Of Sayers’ six novels, two were named in the New York Times’ “Notable Books of the Year.” Her most recent novel, “The Powers,” a coming-of-age story about
Emma Terhaar | Sunday, January 26, 2014
South Bend felt a little hotter on Saturday night in Legends thanks to the latin musical stylings of salsa band Afinca’o. A surprisingly large group of students braved the subzero temperatures and they dressed to dance. The Chicago-based band went on at 10 p.m. followed by Legends’ Salsa Dance night. The array of musicians boasting