Texas State University- M.A. in Literature

Hey Lit students! As we get closer to the start of the Fall semester, here is an upcoming event to look forward to. Tomás Rivera is one of Texas State's most celebrated alum, and this conference celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award created in his honor. The conference will feature 14 authors and illustrators who have won the award in the last decade. As a bonus, lunch will also be served!

If interested, you can register at riverabookaward.org (http://riverabookaward.org/).

I've also attached a program for the book fair happening on Saturday, September 26th, where you can attend readings, performances, and attend a meet and greet with award-winning authors. This event is free and open to the public.

The Absurd Philosophy of Albert Camus Presented in a Short Animated Film by Alain De Botton What is the meaning of life? This may sound simplistic or naïve, especially in relation to much contemporary philosophy, which assumes the question is incoherent and reserves its focus for smaller and smaller slices of experience.

Upcoming Lecture:

The Spring 2015 General Exam is right around the corner! You can sign up by writing your information down on the sign up sheet available outside of FH 361 or emailing the program assistant Deanna at [email protected] with your name, student ID, thesis advisor/committee chair, if you prefer a computer, phone number, and your Texas State email address. The exam will be held Saturday February 7th from 10am-3pm.

Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society hosted a Women in Academia panel last night where four wonderful professors from our department spoke about being in academia from the PhD level to balancing personal and academic life.

Huge turn out to hear our fantastic panelists share some insight into academic life!

Tomorrow at 5pm Sigma Tau Delta is organizing a Women in Academia panel in FH 229! If you're interesting in attending, please RSVP to [email protected].

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50 years ago today, Jean-Paul Sartre became the first person to decline the Nobel Prize – here’s why: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/22/sartre-nobel-prize/

A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus on Our Search for Meaning and Why Happiness Is Our Moral... Why "the demand for happiness and the patient quest for it" isn't a luxury or a mere need but our existential duty.

Edgar Allan Poe on the Joy of Marginalia and What Handwriting Reveals about Character "In the marginalia … we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly -- boldly -- originally -- with abandonment -- without conceit."