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Danielle Evans, author of THE OFFICE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS: A Novella and Stories (Riverhead Books), has been named the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize winner by the New Literary Project (formerly the Simpson Literary Project). The $50,000 prize, which honors a distinguished mid-career author of fiction, has been bestowed annually since 2017.
Ms. Evans will appear under the auspices of the New Literary Project as part of San Francisco Bay Area events during 2021–2022, and she will take up short-term residency at University of California Berkeley during the Spring Semester of 2022. She will also be featured in a virtual Meet the Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner event on May 5 at 7:00 PM (ET) in conversation with Joyce Carol Oates, co-hosted by the Project and the Lafayette Library and Learning Center. To register, here.
Shakespeare did everything in style. Even sheltering in place.
When London was in one of its periodic plague lockdowns, in 1606, he didn t spend his time binge-watching Schitt s Creek. He wrote King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth. What s interesting, for a high school classroom, is for kids to think, Well, wait a second. I m living in a plague. How did Shakespeare deal with this? said Joe Di Prisco, founding chair of The Simpson Literary Project, affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley.
He, like many professors of Shakespeare over the past 12 months, has discovered that our COVID nightmare may be a teachable moment.
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