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Holding a public reading in the Barker Center, D??Agata read excerpts from “The Lost Origins of the Essay,” his new anthology. After beginning with a reading from the introduction of the work, a succession of Harvard professors read selected essays from the anthology. The evening concluded with a question-and-answer session with the author himself...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

After citing the contractual writings in ancient Mesopotamia as the first system of (albeit primitive) literature, D??Agata proceeded to explain that these writings represented the “worst kind of nonfiction there is”: writing which seeks solely to convey information...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

Speaking to an intimate gathering of Harvard’s literary community last night, guest speaker John D??Agata spoke out against the view that most people “are fearful of the essay because they were things that we had to do here in school...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

...place of such a limited conception of the essayistic form, D??Agata advocated for a different critical interpretation—the essay...

Author: By Andrew Z. Lorey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Speaker Advocates for Essays as Art | 9/22/2009 | See Source »

After I sent several letters to Yale’s President A. Bartlett Giamatti and other Yale faculty, his arrest for trespassing was “nolle’d?? when it went to court...

Author: By Paul Keane | Title: LETTERS: Racial Profiling at Yale | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

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