Ancient Highway, the 7th novel by Bret Lott, Professor of English and Writer in Residence at the College of Charleston, "weaves together the hopes and regrets of three characters from three generations as they reconcile who they are and who they might have been" (Random House website). Professor Lott will soon be on a reading and book-signing tour with stops in New Orleans, Pasadena, Albequerque, Los Alamos, and Santa Fe.
- Read more about Ancient Highway on the Random House website
- Read
reviews
of Ancient Highway from across the country
Paul Allen, prize-winning poet, essayist, and Professor of English, has just published his third collection of poetry, Ground Forces, with the Irish firm Salmon Publishing, Ltd. In October, for the offical launch of the book, Professor Allen will be reading and performing in Ireland.
- Read more about Ground Forces and read a sample poem at the Salmonpoetry website.
-See/Hear Paul Allen read poems and sing songs on his website at Sonicbids.com
- Read a review of Ground Forces by poet Marjory Wentworth in the Post & Courier
Professor Susan Farrell recently delivered a public lecture for the General Studies Program at New York Unviersity. The lecture, "The Memory of Vietnam - The Literature," closed a three-lecture series, which was entitled 40 Years After Tet – The Memory of Vietnam. Farrell is pictured above with historian Rolf Wolfswinkel, who organized and moderated the series.
- Read a brief essay by Farrell on the Literature of the Vietnam War from the CofC website, The Vietnam War: 25 Years After.
- See the
40 Years After Tet flyer (.doc).
Assistant Professor and fiction editor for Crazyhorse joins a group of distinguished writers as the 28th winner of the $15,000 Drue Heinz LIterature Prize for his manuscript collection of short stories, Out Loud, to be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press next fall. Scott Turow, judge for the prize, says of Varallo's collection, “The stories in Out Loud are just awfully damn good. They are the work of a very talented and accomplished writer. As a group, they seem to be runners off the same root themes and thus as you’d hope, the book is even greater that the sum of its parts.”
Read the press release from the University of Pittsburgh Press
Read an article on Varallo in The Pitt News
Just Out: Bret Lott's Ancient Highway 
Tony Varallo Wins the Drue Heinz Literature Prize 
