http://literature.ucsc.edu News from Literature at UC Santa Cruz - Headlines http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=3186 The UCSC Center for Labor Studies and the Living Writers Series will join together to present a reading by award-winning novelist Monique Truong, Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m. in the Humanities... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2972 Last spring, when their daughter was deciding where to go to college, UCSC graduates Moira and Dency Nelson tried to play it cool and hide their Banana Slug pride. They wanted their daughter,... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2902 Steve Woodhams (Porter College 1974-77) offers a remembrance of author and former UCSC lecturer James D. Houston, who died on April 16 at his home in Santa Cruz. ... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2871 Submit your best "Ode to Santa Cruz" for a chance to win tickets to attend An Evening with Garrison Keillor at the Santa Cruz Civic. The host of A Prairie Home Companion will read the... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2787 Susan Blackaby has always kept her eye out for the kid who can't read. An educational writer for the past 25 years, the UC Santa Cruz alumna has written more than 120 books for children to inspire... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2775 UC Santa Cruz humanities lecturer Gary Young has been honored with the 2009 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. The prestigious national award is given annually to "a living... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2766 A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr. and the Art of Interpretation (Fordham University Press, 2009) celebrates more than four decades of groundbreaking work by UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2757 UCSC grad Michael Scherer is covering the White House for Time magazine.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2723 A UC Press book series in literary studies--founded by UC Santa Cruz literature professor Richard Terdiman in collaboration with his colleague Susan Gillman and faculty from UC Berkeley and... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2682 When the directors of San Francisco's Museo ItaloAmericano decided to create an exhibit about Italian Jewish life in the age of the Ghetto (16th-19th centuries), the first thing they did was a Google...