Great event origanized by Hunter College and BAM professor Paul Alexander:

The Leon Levy Center for Biography Presents: Miriam Horn on George B. Schaller in conversation with Joe Walston Thursday, April 23, 6:30 pm, the Skylight Room the Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Coming up on Thursday, April 16: BAM presents author Hillery Stone on "The Architecture of Experience: On Building a Memoir." All are welcome to this special event, held in the Leon Levy Center for Biography, room 5406, at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue).

Coming up at BAM's conference on veterans' memoirs: Professor/author Elizabeth Samet will speak of the Library of America’s two-volume 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘐𝘐 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘪𝘳𝘴, which captures history and the lives of veterans with powerful immediacy. www.eventbrite.com/e/in-their-o...

We’re thrilled to spotlight David Nasaw at our conference "In Their Own Words: A Conference on Veterans' Memoirs." 📚In 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘐𝘐, Nasaw brings to life the experiences of veterans who struggled on their return home: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-their-o...

We’re thrilled to spotlight Michael Ramos—professor, veteran and author of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳: 𝘈 𝘝𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘯’𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦, a brutally honest portrayal of life after military service. Don't miss him at our conference on veterans’ writing memoir: www.eventbrite.com/events/19826...

Please join us for a special conference devoted to the lived experience of military veterans as expressed through memoir and life writing. Featuring David Nasaw in discussion with Elizabeth Samet, memoirist Michael Ramos, and roundtables of writers/veterans. www.eventbrite.com/e/in-their-o...

BAM's own Wayne Koestenbaum to read from his new novel this coming Tuesday, the 17th! www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/wayne-...

Kai Bird on Roy Cohn! Prof. Guido Calebresi on the oral history of his life! Brenda Wineapple on the Scopes trial! Please join us at the very special "Writing Legal Lives" special conference on May 27. www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-le...

BAM student Mathew Rodriguez has been chosen as the subject of the Graduate Center's MA program campaign. He will also be representing BAM for the MA showcase in May, discussing his forthcoming memoir Blood/Sugar. Congratulations, Mathew! www.instagram.com/p/DVYlIqhjKtg/

Are you interested in joining an incredible community of students devoted to the study and practice of life writing in all its forms? Please join us for the BAM Open House this Wednesday, February 25 at 6 pm. For more information, please click on this link: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/biogr...

Don't forget to reserve a seat for our Writing Legal Lives conference on March 27, with its thrilling line up of speakers! Link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-le...

Please join us for a unique conference devoted to military veterans and the memoirs they have written. Here is the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-their-o...

Julie Kliegman to speak to the BAM community on March 16! For more information, please email [email protected]

The FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS cover and preorder links are here!!!!! 😍 A couple of suggested vendors: @astoriabookshop.bsky.social: www.astoriabookshop.com/item/1sM1NJw... @bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/find...

Coming up on Friday, March 27: BAM presents "Writing Legal Lives: Biography, Memoir and the Law" Kai Bird on his upcoming Roy Cohn biography, Judge/Yale Law Professor Guido Calabresi on the oral history of his life, and many more! legallives.eventbrite.com

Coming up at the CUNY Graduate Center this Spring! www.gc.cuny.edu/public-progr...

Tickets going fast for great BAM event tomorrow! www.eventbrite.com/e/ann-powers...

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...