Amato to give creative writing reading November 13

image of Joe Amato

Illinois State University’s Assistant Professor of English Joe Amato will be featured during the Department of English’s Annual Creative Writing Faculty Reading at 7 p.m. Friday, November 13, at University Galleries.

Schneider exhibition at University Galleries

Photographer Carrie Schneider’s exhibition, Nine Trips Around the Sun: Selected Works from 2006-2015, is on display at the University’s University Galleries, located in Uptown Normal.

When Rolling Stone covered David Foster Wallace in the classroom

Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg

David Lipsky sat in Stevenson Hall, rapidly scribbling notes. Even though Lipsky had just published a novel, there he was amongst Advanced Creative Writing: Prose students, most of whom were eight to 10 years his junior. Some of the students were scribbling as furiously as he was, writing down choice tips from their professor. “When

U-High to perform Almost Maine

University High School

The most preformed play in American high schools, Almost Maine, a comedy by John Cariani, will open in University High School’s Stroud Auditorium will run from October 23 to October 25.