Coming up at the Graduate Center, November 19 www.gc.cuny.edu/events/baldw...

Great interview with BAM students Ausma Palmer and Meghan Racklin on their Eating Disorders in Life Writing Conference, to be held Friday 11/7, 9:30 to 5 pm at the CUNY Graduate Center: www.gc.cuny.edu/news/student...

Coming up at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, 11/6: Edward Luceon Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet. Please register here: gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Spring 2026 Classes in the Biography and Memoir MA Program!

Tues, Nov 4, 6:30p - catch the discussion “Downtown and the Twilight of Bohemia” with Peter Trachtenberg, Francine Prose, Howard Michels & Sur Rodney (Sur), exploring the evolution of downtown culture. Reserve: www.eventbrite.com/e/downtown-a... @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @cunyenglish.bsky.social

Coming up in less than two weeks!

Coming up at the Leon Levy Center for Biography www.eventbrite.com/e/lance-rich...

Coming up at the Leon Levy Center for Biography www.eventbrite.com/e/lance-rich...

Coming up in a little over a month, with a keynote by Leslie Jamison!

Coming up with Lost & Found www.eventbrite.com/e/letters-fr...

Upcoming schedule for the Global Biography Working Group:

Antihistory of biography and memoir too? gems.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/09/17/s...

Good fellowship opportunity for those working on immigration and life writing: rockinst.org/news/article...

Coming up on Friday!

The tenth issue of RECKONING, an environmental justice journal, seeks submissions about communication. They pay 10 cents per word for prose and $50 per page of poetry. Submit by September 22! AWP members can learn more on the Contests & Calls directory.

In “From Muse to Subject,” Shonda Buchanan writes about the challenges of capturing the life of a music and civil rights icon in her ekphrastic collection, THE LOST SONGS OF NINA SIMONE. Members and subscribers can read the article (and a sneak peek!) in THE WRITER’S CHRONICLE.

Coming up in November! www.eventbrite.com/e/eating-dis...

Explore Chakaia Booker’s work in “Press & Pull” at the James Gallery, alongside artists influenced by the Blackburn Printmaking Workshop www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/t...

Professor Richard Kaye, teaching for BAM in the spring, on Oscar Wilde's "deathbed conversion" www.the-tls.com/lives/biogra...

Great scholarship opportunity: bellezeller.org

Rachel Kushner on “hourly employee, actress, muse” Kim Gordon and the tenth anniversary of Girl In a Band. buff.ly/fRqfHC1

BAM student Suzanne Goldenberg's great upcoming event with the CRUSH reading series. Featuring: Jodi Lin, Cookie Hagendorf, Brenda Iijima, Allyson Paty, & Sarah Riggs.

‘David Lynch had a peculiarly subtractive aesthetic. Just as the more you see, the less comprehensible it becomes, the less you can see (the lower the lighting, the poorer the quality) the more there is to look for.’ Ruby Hamilton on the filmmaker: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Call for papers... biographersinternational.org/news/call-fo...

We're reading @tylermalone.bsky.social's brilliant essay "George Michael: In Praise of Mistakes" this week in my class. This essay should be music crit canon. lithub.com/in-memory-of...

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@pollyrowena.bsky.social on nature writing, chronic illness, and the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn’s memoir, The Salt Path.

Octavia E Butler, the unknown master, gets a fitting new biography.

A new biography sheds light on Hoover's life in the wilderness.

The author of “Treasure Island” and “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” is the subject of an excellent new biography

Singer-songwriter/publicist Dennis Welch talks about the importance of sticktoitiveness, being prepared so you can seize opportunities, and the value of finding & building your community spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/JoOMA5WudWb youtu.be/AhE9S-cVt1Y

Mothers, myths, monsters and Mesopotamia: thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/mythic...

Fellowships available for graduate students at the MA and PhD level for the Cold War Archive Research Program: cwar-institute.org/call-for-app...

Call for papers! Author, scholar and BAM alum and professor Victoria Phillips has organized this conference in conjunction with the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies and Oxford University: issi.berkeley.edu/women-right

Exciting upcoming event, honoring the revolutionary writer and Brazilian national icon Clarice Lispector: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/passi...

Celebrating the latest book in a magisterial series that changed the field and gave birth to the Gotham Center... www.gc.cuny.edu/events/gotha...

If you're in NYC, there's still time to see this beautiful show by BAM alum Iliana Emilia García and her sister Scherezade García: repeatingislands.com/2025/08/17/e...

All invited: I'm giving a talk for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on Wednesday, September 3, 11:00 am EST. Free but you need to register. @bamcuny.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/morni...