Join us for a reading featuring Author in Residence Jean Chen Ho. Drinks and light refreshments will be served. Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, named one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022; a “Best Book of the Year” (NPR, Vulture, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle); and longlisted for […]
Everyone is invited and welcome to join the party Tuesday, December 2 at 5pm in the ERR for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: A Reading with Student Authors. Come join us for a night of good food and drinks as students in the Creative Writing Program read from work written […]
Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Jean Strouse Jean Strouse will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Jean Strouse at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to […]
In her newest publication Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, award-winning author Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent’s portraits of the Wertheimer family. Family Romance looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the height of his career—and at the intersections of all these […]
Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Katie Kitamura Katie Kitamura will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Katie Kitamura at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open to […]
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel Audition asks who we are to the people we love. In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think […]
Join UCLA English for the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room Writers Series: Tea and Conversation with Kiran Desai Kiran Desai will discuss her writing. This event is followed by Some Favorite Writers: Kiran Desai at the Hammer Museum at 7:30pm. Visit the Hammer Museum for full details. Both events are free and open […]
Kiran Desai’s newest novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, is a spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years – an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a love story, a family saga, […]
Join UCLA Department of English to celebrate the publication of UCLA alum Woody Brown’s debut novel, Upward Bound. Register here to attend. A light reception will follow the event. The reading will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Mona Simpson, Professor of English at UCLA. Upward Bound is not a place anyone […]
Looking for a fun way to celebrate the end of spring quarter? Come hang out with us at the Creative Writing Prose Reading Tuesday, June 2 at 5 PM in Kaplan 193. Students from the Creative Writing Program will read from their work. Bring your friends, grab some pizza and drinks, and enjoy the party. […]