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| Entertainment Weekly carried the news that Alison Bechdel ’79 was selected by Houghton Mifflin to edit the 2011 edition of The Best American Comics. Online literary quarterly Wag’s Review also published an interview with Bechdel, who will be on campus March 7th as a Bridges Program Visiting Artist | |
| Professor Peter Filkins’s translation of Panorama, by German language Czech author H.G. Adler, was reviewed in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also discussed Adler’s work as a guest on national radio show Writer’s Voice | |
| The film adaptation of Professor Emmanuel Dongala’s novel Johnny Mad Dog was reviewed in the New York Times | |
| Mike Doughty ’86 was featured on the Good Morning America segment “Your Three Words” | |
| Playbill announces Daisy Eagan’s ’96 cabaret, Still Daisy After All These Years, is playing at New York’s Laurie Beechman Theatre starting March 28. | |
| John McWhorter wrote about how to reform foreign language education in the Wall Street Journal and authored pieces on NPR celebrating biracial diversity and the importance of prisoner re-entry programs | |
| Alums Barth Anderson ’84 and Greg Charbonneau ’84, owners of Barrington Coffee, were awarded a Good Food Award for their pesticide-free, fair trade, roasted-to-order beans | |
| Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of bestseller Half the Sky, came to Simon’s Rock on February 6 to discuss the book with the College community. Their appearance was highlighted in the Berkshire Eagle | |
| Pianist Manon Hutton-DeWys ’01 was profiled in the New Canaan Advertiser | |
| The Sierra Sun highlighted an exhibition of artworks by Carole Sesko ’75 | |
| Simon’s Rock was recognized in an article about the W.E.B Du Bois Center in Great Barrington in the Advocate Weekly | |
| The Berkshire Eagle reviewed Bridges Visiting Artist Frederic Chiu’s October 17th performance of works by Debussy and Schumann, with faculty member Karen Beaumont reading Drillon's Gustave. |