The MA in English and Comparative Literature at SDSU

Very cool to see the world engage in literary/cinematic debates over the meanings of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey ... the latest https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/08/20/artful-weaving-odyssey-christopher-nolan/

No doubt the annoying paywall will hamper your access, so here is a pdf of Daniel Mendelsohn's long review ... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FWc5uoNCsUHtKV6Qr4YaZF070EzvoeCV/view?usp=sharing

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Good morning from @beirutiguy - great novelist RabihAlameddine

What happens when dozens of liberal studies scholars come together to present fascinating interdisciplinary research under one roof for two days? Pure Wonder! We are so impressed by the boundary-busting ideas and conversations that took place during the 2026 AGLSP annual conference! Thank you @hcis.smu for hosting this event on the beautiful campus of SMU! ❤️💙 #aglsp2026 #newbeginnings #knowledgeinmotion

Good writing means notes, revision, plus shifting the medium!

Re-Noted: 3 Lessons on Writing from Joan Didion's Notes "It gets me past the blank terror."

To study genres is not to divide literature into boxes, but to discover the countless ways humanity has chosen to tell its story.

Literature is traditionally divided into five major genres:

✦ Poetry — where emotions become music through lyric, sonnet, ode, elegy, ballad, and epic.

✦ Drama — where humanity takes the stage through comedy and tragedy, from witty comedies of manners to heroic and revenge tragedies.

✦ Fiction — where imagination shapes reality in romances, short stories, and novels, embracing Gothic tales, epistolary narratives, regional fiction, and picaresque adventures.

✦ Non-fiction — where lived experience speaks through essays, biographies, autobiographies, pamphlets, and travel writing.

✦ Literary Criticism — where literature reflects upon itself through feminist, postcolonial, Marxist, psychoanalytic, archetypal, structuralist, stylistic, and reader-response approaches.

The more we explore these genres, the more we realise that literature has never been merely about books. It is about memory becoming poetry, conflict becoming drama, imagination becoming fiction, experience becoming history, and thought becoming criticism.

Every masterpiece you read is not simply a story—it is a conversation with centuries of writers asking the same enduring questions:

Who are we? Why do we love? Why do we suffer? And how should we live?

Official Printers Row Lit Fest Poster 📚

We’re excited to unveil the 2026 Printers Row Lit Fest poster designed by artist Shane Tolentino.

Join us for the 41st Annual Lit Fest
📆Saturday, September 12 & Sunday, September 13
⏰ 10 AM – 6 PM
📍 South Dearborn Street from Ida B. Wells to Polk Street, in the heart of historic Printers Row

Join us for a weekend filled with:
🎪 6 stages
📚 80+ literary programs
📖 200+ booksellers & exhibitors
🎙️ 200+ presenters & speakers
FREE ADMISSION

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