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All Things Grinnell tells stories of Grinnell, past, present, and future. Features interviews with students, faculty, alumni, staff, community members, and visiting speakers, discussing research, campus life, and current issues of cultural, economic, social, and political significance.
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Thursday May 23, 2019
Amy Tan: Commencement 2019
Thursday May 23, 2019
Thursday May 23, 2019
Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and many other novels, aspiring nature journalist, and musical dominatrix for the literary band The Rock Bottom Remainders, gave the 2019 Commencement address. She sat down to talk about the values she shares with Grinnell and how she found her own path to a meaningful career after a traumatic childhood. She discusses how writing has influenced her life and helped her to understand who she is and connect with her family, as well as millions of readers around the world.
Thursday May 09, 2019
It's Lit(erary)! Shakespeare, the Afterlife, and Reconciliation
Thursday May 09, 2019
Thursday May 09, 2019
What happens after death? On this episode, we wrestle with that age-old question alongside Shakespeare and our very own John Garrison, associate professor of English. His recently published book, Shakespeare and the Afterlife, reckons with how the Bard grappled with some of the biggest questions of life and death during his time. Then, we turn to a seemingly more uplifting topic, reconciliation, with Jan Frans Van Dijkhuizen, associate professor of English literature at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Dijkhuizen, paints a bleak picture of the literary history of reconciliation, but his conclusions bear strongly on our present moment, especially the polarized political landscape that surrounds us. We also hear from our music correspondent, Gabriel Shubert ’20, who spoke with the drummer from Camp Cope, an Australian independent alternative punk band that performed in Grinnell on April 19.