Chris Botti and Joshua Bell have been touring and performing all summer, but Botti said their performance at Chautauqua Institution will be one of the highlights of their tour. Botti and Bell will perform with
Due to unforeseen circumstances, prose writer-in-residence Linda K. Wertheimer had to cancel her Week Seven visit to the Chautauqua Writers’ Center. Clara Silverstein, program director of the Writers’ Center, will give a special Brown Bag
There is a common metaphor often ascribed to people with cancer: that their disease is a battle to be fought, or an enemy to be beaten back. When Lucy Kalanithi’s husband Paul Kalanithi was
Putting a book out into the world can be a fulfilling experience for a writer. For Cyrus M. Copeland, he felt something else with his book Off the Radar: A Father’s Secret, a Mother’s Heroism,
Many Chautauquans know the creative impulse doesn’t stop after a certain age. Poet Molly Peacock knows it, too, and she’ll explore that theme with her Brown Bag, “Leap the Limits: Beginning a Life’s Work
Week Seven at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center will offer a workshop on writing about religion and a master class on sonnets. Authors Linda K. Wertheimer and Molly Peacock will serve as the writers-in-residence for the
The CLSC is so much bigger than me. I recognize that fact nearly every minute of every hour that I work at The Chautauquan Daily. As I interview the CLSC authors and realize that they’re
Writer Leslie Daniels has had a convoluted career path: she’s been an actor, an improv comedian, a literary agent and a fiction editor, among other occupations. All of those different jobs have formed her writing
The phrase “the American West” can conjure up a lot of hackneyed imagery: cowboys with guns blazing, covered wagons, harlots hanging out in seedy saloons. Author Brian Hart wanted to explore a different image of
Recognition Day for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle traditionally happens on Wednesday, but the celebration actually begins the Sunday before, with the Vigil in the Hall of Philosophy. The graduates proceed from the Literary
There’s a song that recurs in “Sesame Street” called “One of These Things.” The lyrics might be familiar: “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong.” When
Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends President Fred Zirm thinks making connections is one of the foundations of poetry and writing, and that’s what the Favorite Poem Project is all about. The event is one of
Poet Nicole Cooley loves tiny things: dollhouses, miniatures, but especially tiny texts. She’ll discuss the opportunities that short-form writing can provide for readers and writers today with her Brown Bag, “Tiny Texts: Flash Fictions,
The Sultans of String will bring a world of musical influences with them in their first visit to Chautauqua Institution. The group will perform at 8:15 p.m. Monday in the Amphitheater. Chris McKhool, one of
Week Six at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center will offer workshops focused on getting lost and getting in trouble. Writers Leslie Daniels and Nicole Cooley will lead the workshops this week. Daniels’ workshop is called “Get
Flannery O’Connor contended in her essay “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” that there was no writer “hotter after the dollar” than Henry James, or a more “conscientious artist.” Besides her commentary on James and