Literary Bennington

05/28/2019

Bennington College in the 1980s was a hothouse of s*x, drugs, and future literary stars--among them, Donna Tartt, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jonathan Lethem. Return to a campus and an era like no other.

10/26/2018

Literary Bennington is back! Our correspondent Tallulah Novogratz interviews new Literature faculty member Manuel Gonzales about screenwriting, acrobatic sentences, and the literary life.

A selfie of Manuel Gonzales, first published in the Oxford American . Manuel Gonzales joined the Literature faculty at Bennington this fall after teaching at the University of Kentucky, where he was an Associate Professor of English and helped launch the school’s MFA program. He is a fiction writ

06/15/2018

Literary Bennington speaks with Camille Guthrie about her fearless poem "Diamonds," originally published in Boston Review.

Photo credit: Osorio Arts In Camille Guthrie’s most recently published poem “Diamonds,” characters range from Judith Butler to H amlet ’s Queen Gertrude to Guthrie’s own children. The characters meet together in a poem described by the author as the “intersection of my thoughts.” The p...