Career Development Awards FY96 English profs reach out to community When Deena Linett of English and Andrea Cohen, director of the Belleville Library and Information Center, joined forces to establish a program that would benefit the adults and students of Belleville and neighboring communities, they came up with a lecture series that explores recent American fiction. The rest was easy.
People often think the best books have already been written.
This series will make them aware that 'good' art is still being created. The series, which is funded by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, began Sept. 13, with a lecture and discussion by Linett about Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia. The next lecture will be on Sept. 27 by Thomas Benediktsson on The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. Will by Ann Beattie. The final lectures and discussions will be delivered on Nov. 8 by George Petty, who will discuss At the Mercy of a Rude Stream by Henry Roth, and on Nov. 15 by Benediktsson who will lecture on Spartina by John Casey.