David DeGusta
Writer / fiction / Iowa Writers’ Workshop / MacDowell // Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic // Previously a paleoanthropologist.
www.davidwrites.net
www.davidwrites.net
How Iowa Helped a Computer Programmer Become a Breakout Novelistmagazine.foriowa.org Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Ruthvika Rao publishes her debut novel, a love story set in her native India.
"The Power of the Powerless" - Vaclav Havelhac.bard.edu Hannah Arendt Center News
Admired: Margaret Yapp's "Green for Luck" — David DeGustawww.davidwrites.net An appreciation of the poetry collection “Green for Luck” by Margaret Yapp,
available here.
Camille Bordas on What Stand-Up Comedy Can Teach Writing Workshops About Growing Thicker Skinlithub.com My first introduction to Camille Bordas came through her stories in the New Yorker—perfectly formed marvels, funny, skeptical, self-aware, and humane. I loved them for their seeming lightness: ther…
155 Artists Awarded MacDowell Fellowships for Spring and Summer 2024www.macdowell.org MacDowell has awarded the equivalent of more than $2.3 million in fellowships to 155 artists from 30 U.S. states and 14 countries, arriving from as far afield as Chile and India, and Pakistan and Aust...
When an Artist Dies, Who Owns Her Story?www.nytimes.com The Cuban artist Ana Mendieta fell from a window of her 34th-floor apartment in 1985. Her family members have been fighting for control of her legacy ever since.
The Lynx, A Bookstore in Gainesville, FLwww.indiegogo.com A bookstore that bites back.
The Road from Belhaven a book by Margot Liveseybookshop.org From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland "Bewi...