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Writers at Rutgers featuring Meg Wolitzer

Date & Time

Tuesday, October 08, 2024, 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Category

Lectures & Speakers

Location

College Avenue Student Center, Multipurpose Room

126 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901

Information

Presented by the Department of English

Mary Wolitzer headshot

Save the date for the fall Writers at Rutgers Reading Series featuring the esteemed novelist, Meg Wolitzer.  Wolitzer is the New York Times–bestselling author of The InterestingsThe Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Female Persuasion, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking. She is also the author of the young adult novel Belzhar.  

Since 1990, Writers at Rutgers has sponsored readings by distinguished writers such as  George Saunders, Adrienne Rich, Miguel Algarin, Joyce Carol Oates, Temple Grandin, Derek Walcott, Junot Diaz, Oliver Sacks, Caryl Phillips, Rebecca Solnit, Tina Chang, Brenda Shaughnessy, Tracy K. Smith, Jayne Anne Phillips, Mark Doty, Sherman Alexie, James Surowiecki, Colson Whitehead, Alison Bechdel, Li-Young Lee, Richard Wilbur, E.L. Doctorow, Jamaica Kincaid, Czeslaw Milosz, W.S. Merwin, Chang-rae Lee, June Jordan, Richard Howard, Linda Gregg, Yehuda Amichai, Toi Derricotte, Charles Simic, Edwidge Danticat, Alicia Ostriker, Paule Marshall, Maggie Anderson, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edmund White, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jean Valentine, C.K. Williams, Wesley Brown, Michael Cunningham, Marilyn Hacker, Jonathan Lethem, Susan Wheeler, Jonathan Franzen, Jay Wright, Azar Nafisi, Amitav Ghosh, Brenda Marie Osbey, Kalamu ya Salaam, Selah Saterstrom, Russell Banks, Susanna Moore, Salman Rushdie, and Zadie Smith, among many others.

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