In 1964, Joan Didion bemoaned the state of the Hollywood film industry in her essay “I Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind.” Frustrated by the cacophony of voices and visions in motion pictures,
Ryan Pait
This year’s Chautauqua Writers’ Festival offered its students a chance to explore — both with their writing and on the grounds. “We tried to take advantage even more of the many unique and inspiring nooks
Week One at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center will welcome two returnees: Shara McCallum is a previous writer-in-residence, while Laura Maylene Walter is a former student leading a workshop for the first time. McCallum will serve
The Chautauqua Writers’ Center will welcome a bevy of writers and a new director for the 2017 season. Jill Gerard, co-editor of the Chautauqua literary journal, will head the Writers’ Center as its program director.
For the final Chautuauqua Writers’ Center Brown Bag of the season, novelist Ron MacLean will discuss the social novel and its relevance in the 21st century. MacLean, Week Nine’s prose writer-in-residence at the Chautauqua Writers’
A little more than a decade ago, Georgia Court and President Tom Becker had a conversation. As an active member of Chautauqua’s literary arts community, Court wanted to talk to Becker about how they could
According to Neil Shepard, American poetry has two very famous great-grandparents: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. They’re two prolific writers who have given all following poets two very different models to work from when it
Authors Ron MacLean and Neil Shepard will close out the 2016 season at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center. MacLean will serve as the prose writer-in-residence and Shepard will serve as poet-in-residence, and they’ll lead workshops on
Nancy McCabe said when she got the invitation to teach at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center during Week Eight, she began planning for her reading, workshop and Brown Bag — all key elements of a writer-in-residence’s
A week focused on war will bring Chautauqua veteran Brian Castner to the grounds to talk about his experiences and his new book, All the Ways We Kill and Die: An Elegy for a Fallen
Editor’s note: Stanley Lombardo’s presentation of Homer’s Iliad at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Hall of Philosophy has been canceled. The book still serves as an official Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection. Stanley Lombardo’s
Week Eight’s theme is “War and Its Warriors: Contemporary Voices,” which brings military veterans such as Phil Klay and David H. Petraeus to the morning lecture platform. Thinkers such as Pamela Lightsey and Shareda Hosein
The Irish have Ulysses. The French have Les Misérables. The Russians have War and Peace and Crime and Punishment. The Spanish have Don Quixote. The Greeks have the Iliad and the Odyssey. But what is
On Aug. 14, 1936, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the Amphitheater stage to give his famous “I Hate War” speech at Chautauqua Institution. At 10:45 a.m. Monday in the same venue — 80 years and a
The penultimate week of 2016 workshops at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center will focus on nontraditional story structure and using the Bible as literary inspiration. Writers Nancy McCabe and Kent Gramm will serve as the writers-in-residence
There’s a scene from “Sex and the City” where Carrie Bradshaw’s publisher throws a big party to celebrate the release of her first book. All of New York society seems to be in attendance. “If