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Courtesy of The Georgetown Library / Students, faculty and staff created edible art pieces inspired by literature for the fourth annual Edible Books Festival, hosted by the Georgetown Library April 7.

Edible Book Festival Brings Creativity, Cakes to Lauinger Library

By Ruth Abramovitz, GUSA Desk Editor April 11, 2025

Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library featured edible artwork inspired by literature at its fourth annual edible book festival April 7.  Over 150 people attended the festival, which showcased...

CLAYTON’S CURATION | ‘Boring,’ or an Excuse for Anti-Intellectualism

By Clayton Kincade, Guide Columnist November 20, 2024

There are books all around my townhouse: on bookshelves, in trolley carts, on my desk, on coffee tables, on the floor, on rectangle pieces of concrete jutting out of the base of a purposeless living room...

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Only The Good Die Young: A Great Gatsby Review

By Mauro Mazzariello, Hoya Staff Writer November 8, 2024

Just a few months shy of its 100th anniversary, “The Great Gatsby” remains firmly in the literary canon. Every high school teenager who endured an American literature class has, at some point,...

Oxford Centre Scholar Discusses Writing of  20th-Century Jewish Londoners

Oxford Centre Scholar Discusses Writing of 20th-Century Jewish Londoners

By Dylan Partner March 9, 2023

Oxford Centre scholar of Hebrew and Jewish studies Tali Chilson spoke on the poetry and prose of second-generation Jewish writers in London’s East End. The webinar, titled “Nature as a Respite...

BETWEEN THE COVERS | Literature’s Unrealistic Male Lead

BETWEEN THE COVERS | Literature’s Unrealistic Male Lead

By Melinda Reed March 30, 2022

Literary male leads are frauds.  Given my dedication to arguing for romance’s legitimacy as a genre, it pains me to criticize it, but I am afraid I have to because literary men are unicorns.  They...

Georgetown Professor Awarded Distinguished Classical Arabic Poetry Award

Georgetown Professor Awarded Distinguished Classical Arabic Poetry Award

By Brooke DeLucia February 3, 2022

A Georgetown University professor has received a prestigious honor for her work in the field of classical Arabic poetry. Suzanne Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies...

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Turning the Page: The Evolution of Georgetown’s Literary Curriculum

By Meghan DeCourcey February 2, 2018

Beltway politics and palace intrigue tend to dominate Washington, D.C.’s headlines, often overshadowing the District’s thriving culture scene. Georgetown University’s own status as an epicenter...

Predicting a Freshman's Georgetown Day

Predicting a Freshman’s Georgetown Day

By Charlie Fritz and Charlie Fritz April 28, 2016

Well friends, it's that time of year: the last week of classes. We're almost to the point where we don't have to go class every day of the week. Summer is so close, yet so far (because of the gloom of...

Book Review: ‘What If I Got Down on My Knees?’

By Eugénie Lund-Simon April 17, 2015

★★★★☆ Tugging heartstrings is an art that Tony Rauch has greatly mastered. In his fourth collection of short stories to be released later this month, Rauch manages to seamlessly combine heartbreak...

New Med School Tracks Focus on Literature, Population Health

By Emily Tu April 14, 2015

To provide increasingly specialized experiences for its students, the Georgetown University School of Medicine is adding two new tracks focusing on population health and literature to its curriculum in...

No. 4 - Fragments

No. 4 – Fragments

By Sarah Kim October 26, 2014

In all our deciphered knowledge of the English language today, our pool of understanding has only diminished in depth. We no longer read with a command of the language but as if we are borrowing the words...

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UNC School of the Arts Chancellor Lindsay Bierman (CAS ’87) (left), Harvard professor Mark Poirier (CAS ’91) (center) and author Christopher Reich (SFS ’83) spoke on their careers in media Tuesday.

Alumni Authors Discuss Careers

By Emma Rizk October 24, 2014

The Georgetown University Library Associates collaborated with the English department to present “Georgetown Writes,” the first in a series of panels featuring alumni discussing their experiences...

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