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His lectures were "electrifying." R.I.P. Prof. Herbert Lindenberger, professor of English and comparative Literature (1929-2018)

Award-winning translator and former Stegner fellow Mira Rosenthal talks about what she learned from poet Tomasz Róycki. A dirty secret I keep is that I started horribly.

Philip Roth has died at 85: I interviewed him in 2014, after he said he was done with writing and done with interviews. Tobias Wolff and I changed his mind, in time for the Another Look book club event on "The Ghost Writer." Here's the interview.

Perhaps the first-ever discussion of Larkin's early novel, "A Girl in Winter" and it rocked! Tobias Wolff, Robert Harrison & Elizabeth Conquest in conversation. Podcast and photos, too!

TONIGHT: Philip Larkin’s early novel A Girl in Winter at Stanford! | The Book Haven https://stanford.io/2w1mJ84

When she married, Larkin said, No doubt she will drag him back to her transatlantic lair, as all Yank bags do. The "Yank Bag" Liddie Conquest remembers her long, happy marriage to poet/historian Robert Conquest & come hear her on April 30, too! https://stanford.io/2F8bJoN

What? Philip Larkin the novelist? Portrait of the poet as a young man. Stanford takes on the Larkin's 1947 A Girl in Winter on April 30, with Tobias Wolff, Robert Harrison, and Elizabeth Conquest. Join us!

"Victor Frankenstein attends the University of Ingolstadt, which was famous in its day for natural philosophy that’s the 19th century term for STEM. He is monomaniacally steeped in mathematics, chemistry, anatomy, physiology." A new podcast on the Los Angeles Review of Books’ Entitled Opinion channel, featuring Stanford's Inga Pierson, explores how Shelley’s astonishing novel is a parable for our times.

On January 1, 1818, a 20-year-old woman published Frankenstein. And Stanford will celebrate the book on Jan. 24, as part of a campus-wide Frankenstein@200 celebration.

Only death could stop her. Remembering Stanford poet Helen Pinkerton: No poet in English writes with more authority," said Yvor Winters.

BREAKING NEWS! Jesmyn Ward just won the National Book Award again! This time for "Sing, Unburied, Sing." Here's what she said about the first time... (photo by Pulitzer Prizewinner Adam Johnson)