BAM Biography/Memoir

Lance Richardson on Peter Matthiessen, with Philip Gourevitch Join us for a lively discussion about Peter Matthiessen with Philip Gourevitch, led by the insightful Lance Richardson!

Coming up at the Leon Levy Center for Biography
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Lance Richardson on Peter Matthiessen, with Philip Gourevitch Join us for a lively discussion about Peter Matthiessen with Philip Gourevitch, led by the insightful Lance Richardson!

Coming up at the Leon Levy Center for Biography
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Coming up in a little over a month, with a keynote by Leslie Jamison!

Coming up with Lost & Found

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Upcoming schedule for the Global Biography Working Group:

Antihistory of biography and memoir too?
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Applications Open for 2026 Fellowship on Immigrant Integration | Rockefeller Institute of Government Fellows will work with III-RP experts to assess immigrant integration policy, produce policy briefs, and analyze and compile data to fill research gaps.

Good fellowship opportunity for those working on immigration and life writing:
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Coming up on Friday!

General Submission Call: Reckoning X

The tenth issue of RECKONING, an environmental justice journal, seeks submissions about communication. They pay 10 cents per word for prose and $50 per page of poetry. Submit by September 22! AWP members can learn more on the Contests & Calls directory.

From Muse to Subject Shonda Buchanan pushes the boundaries of ekphrastic poetry in her new collection about the music and civil rights icon.

In “From Muse to Subject,” Shonda Buchanan writes about the challenges of capturing the life of a music and civil rights icon in her ekphrastic collection, THE LOST SONGS OF NINA SIMONE. Members and subscribers can read the article (and a sneak peek!) in THE WRITER’S CHRONICLE.

<em>CONTROLLED DEMOLITION</em>: Book Launch & Reading with Ammiel Alcalay - Center for the Humanities Join Lost & Found and Litmus Press for an evening of reading, music, and conversation to celebrate and launch poet, translator, critic, and scholar Ammiel Alcalay‘s highly-anticipated, monumental new ...

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Ian Penman · Infinite Wibble: Brian v. Eno At a time when most conversation about the arts remained stuck in an Oxbridge common room, Eno was a one-man laboratory...

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Bilingual Poems Trace Journeys of Memory, Loss, and Belonging "Una conversación pendiente/Unfinished Conversation" captures the struggles and resilience of migration in a volume by alumna Juana M. Ramos.

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Coming up in November!
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An Artist Who’s Been Using the Same Woodblock for Over 15 Years

Explore Chakaia Booker’s work in “Press & Pull” at the James Gallery, alongside artists influenced by the Blackburn Printmaking Workshop www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/t...

The path to Rome Many people are familiar with Oscar Wilde’s last words, spoken as he lay dying in a Paris hotel in 1900, and first reported by his friend, the Anglo-French writer Claire de Pratz: “My wallpaper and I ...

Professor Richard Kaye, teaching for BAM in the spring, on Oscar Wilde's "deathbed conversion"
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Nathan Kernan on James Schuyler in conversation with Brad Gooch Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler is the definitive biography of the great American poet who, along with Frank O’Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery, and Kenne

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Open Access Explained: Best Practices for Finding Others’ Research and Publicly Sharing Yours You probably know that you can find open access (i.e., cost-free and publicly accessible) copies of many journal articles online. But do you know how to determine if a specific...

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“Predatory” Journals: How to Avoid the Shams and Scams As a researcher, you are eager to publish your work. But don’t let your eagerness allow you to be fooled by fake (often called “predatory”) journals. These low-quality outlets...

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Belle Zeller Scholarship Trust Fund City University of New York CUNY Belle Zeller Scholarship Trust Fund The 2023 Belle Zeller Scholarship Application Period is now closed. We are no longer accepting application submissions, supporting documents or letters of recommendation. Find Out More Information (About Us) Belle Zeller Scholarship Trust Fund Saluting our Scholars & Friend of CUNY View our events by clicking the button below: Click

Great scholarship opportunity:
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Rachel Kushner on the 10th Anniversary of Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band Perhaps it’s the last ten years of conversation I’ve had with the artist herself, ten years of building intimacy in fragments and flows, that inspire me to take Kim’s own words, from the tender and…

Rachel Kushner on “hourly employee, actress, muse” Kim Gordon and the tenth anniversary of Girl In a Band.
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BAM student Suzanne Goldenberg's great upcoming event with the CRUSH reading series. Featuring: Jodi Lin, Cookie Hagendorf, Brenda Iijima, Allyson Paty, & Sarah Riggs.

Ruby Hamilton · Things go kerflooey: David Lynch’s Gee-Wizardry For years, his biography on press releases was just four words long: ‘Eagle scout, Missoula, Montana.’ David Lynch...

‘David Lynch had a peculiarly subtractive aesthetic. Just as the more you see, the less comprehensible it becomes, the less you can see (the lower the lighting, the poorer the quality) the more there is to look for.’

Ruby Hamilton on the filmmaker: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Call for 2026 BIO Conference Proposals - Biographers International Organization The 2026 BIO Conference is tentatively scheduled for May 28–29 in New York City, and the Conference Committee—co-chaired by Jared Stearns—invites members to

Call for papers...
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In Memory of George Michael, In Praise of Mistakes I. And the Wounded Skies Above Say It’s Much Too Late We live in strange times. We live under wounded skies. We live amongst our mistakes, and we count their bones. Late night talk show host James …

We're reading @tylermalone.bsky.social's brilliant essay "George Michael: In Praise of Mistakes" this week in my class. This essay should be music crit canon.

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CUNY-trained Scholar Wins Doheny Award – CUNY University Faculty Senate The CUNY-Wide Faculty Governance Voice

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Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …

@pollyrowena.bsky.social on nature writing, chronic illness, and the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn’s memoir, The Salt Path.