Nonfiction Writing Program Events 2011-12



Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series 2011-12

See the Series Poster
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program

Wednesday
October 5
6:30 p.m.
A. J. Jacobs ’90 (Personal Journalism)
My Life as an Experiment:  I came, I saw, I became part of the story.

Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, 2nd floor
Jacobs flyer


Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series 2011-12

See the Series Poster
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program

Wednesday
November 9
6:30 p.m.
Brown Emerging Writers' panel
Kevin Roose '09 (Cultural Analysis)
Lindsay Harrison '08 (Memoir)
Brian Christian '06 (Science/Culture)

Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, 2nd floor
Writers' panel flyer


Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series 2011-12

See the Series Poster
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program

Monday
February 13, 2012
6:30 p.m.
David Rohde ’90 (Investigative Journalism)
The Art of Reporting:  From investigative stories to columns, the irreplaceable value of 'ground truth.'

Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, 2nd floor
Rohde flyer

Tuesday
April 17, 2012
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Andre Dubus, III
'Townie': Writing Memoir

Location: Barker Room 315, 70 Brown Street

This event is made possible by the Center for Race and Ethnicity. Co-sponsored by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English.


Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series 2011-12

See the Series Poster
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program

Monday
May 7, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Pico Iyer
Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture
Writing--and Rewriting--Our New Global Swirl


Location: TBD



Nonfiction Writing Program events
from 2010-11 and earlier