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What We're Reading 6/20: A Weekly List of Our Program Directors' Must-See Media

Why are megafires in the West becoming so commonplace? What happens when ennui is used as a political strategy? Is access to higher education the economic and moral issue of our time? Programs at the Aspen Institute have been scouring their respective issue areas to find and share the most insightful and informative links to answer these questions, and more.

Blog Post

06.20.2014
Literature

Aspen Summer Words' Reading List

The Aspen Summer Words Festival, hosted by The Aspen Writers' Foundation, launched on June 13. The five-day retreat featured an exciting lineup of speakers ...

BY Institute Contributor

Blog Post

06.16.2014
Literature

What We're Reading 6/13: A Weekly List of Our Program Directors' Must-See Media

What is the biggest economic threat to women? What is likely to come of the recently released members of the "Taliban 5?" How can investment banks help to boost impact investing? Programs at the Aspen Institute have been scouring their respective issue areas to find and share the most insightful and informative links to answer these questions, and more.

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06.13.2014
Literature

Maya Angelou: The Oracle Never Dies

Bending on my right knee at her side, I made every effort to meet her eye to eye in her wheelchair. “Stand, Eric. Do not bow,” she implored. “Do not bow or kneel to any man. Remember that! I know all about you. I know your story. I know where you have come from. You have traveled too far from Montgomery to bow. We all have traveled too far from Montgomery to ever bow again.”

BY Eric L. Motley

Blog Post

05.30.2014
Literature

Best-Selling Author Maria Semple Speaks to Hometown Crowd About 'Bernadette'

Author Maria Semple interviewed by her brother, columnist Lo Semple, at an Aspen Writer's Foundation Winter Words event.It was no surprise that author Mari ...

BY Catherine Lutz, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

04.07.2014
Literature

Author Tom Reiss Shares Historic Story Behind "The Black Count" at Winter Words Event

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo," author and historian Tom Reiss tells the fascinating story of the lesser-known Alexandre Dumas, father of and inspiration to the famed French writer of the same name. The senior Dumas rose from slavery to become one of the highest-ranking military officers of color in the Western world. As fascinating as Dumas' own tale is, the telling of how Reiss uncovered the story, which takes place during one of Europe’s most racially progressive eras (and one of its least), is as gripping.

BY Catherine Lutz, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

03.24.2014
Literature

Novelists Discuss the Magic in the Creative Process

Above, watch the full Winter Words session of a conversation on the creative writing process with authors Karen Joy Fowler and Carole DeSant ...

BY Catherine Lutz, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

03.06.2014
Literature

Aspen Writers' Foundation Brings Poetry to Area Students

Roaring Fork High School student Haley Ameral performs on stage at the Aspen Writers' Foundation poetry slam event in Aspen, Colorado. (Photo Credit: Garre ...

BY Jamie Kravitz, Guest Blogger

Podcast

02.18.2014
Literature

Authors Nick Flynn and Dani Shapiro Explore the Art of Memoir

“Memoir is not autobiography,” author Dani Shapiro wrote in a January 2014 open letter on Salon.com. “When a writer sits down to write memoir, she is ...

BY Catherine Lutz, Guest Blogger

Blog Post

02.12.2014
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