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For 66 years Rollins College has been bringing the finest literary minds and award-winning authors to the Rollins College campus, in order to share their work and expertise with students, faculty, and the community. More than 400 members of the Rollins and Central Florida communities gathered for the event. This program enables students to learn from the very best. This program called Winter With the Writers, which takes place each
Thursday in February, has made many people laugh, cry, and contemplate not only the writing of others, but also their own. During his visit, Tobias Wolff held a master class, where he critiqued the work of Rollins students. The master class was followed by a public reading, discussion of his works and a book signing. During this event, Wolff read excerpts from his most recent book, “Old School,” and answered questions asked by the Winter With
the Writers Director and English professor at Rollins College, Connie May Fowler. It was during this Q & A that Wolff said, "Writing doesn't get easier as I get older. It was easy to write when I wasn't good, and it got harder the better I got. Writing doesn't satisfy me unless I feel like I'm discovering something about myself while I'm doing it. I'm not satisfied unless I have that feeling." The first Winter With the Writers guest was Tobias
Wolff, an author of many memoirs, short stories and novels. Wolff has been called one of the great American Masters of the short story and memoir. He has received many awards for his work, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Rea Award for Excellence in Short Story and the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books include the
memoirs “This Boy's Life” and “In Pharaoh's Army,” the short novel “The Barracks Thief,” three collections of stories, “In The Garden of the North American Martyrs,” “Back in the World,” and “The Night in Question,” and, most recently, the novel “Old School.” He has also edited several anthologies, among them “Best American Short Stories,” “A Doctor's Visit: The Short Stories of Anton
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bell hooks Speaks Up Heather Williams the sandspur The conversation and lecture that filled Bush Auditorium during bell hooks' visit to Rollins was certainly one not to be forgotten. bell hooks, a widely published black feminist, says her pen name honors her mother and her grandmother. Her name is always seen written in lowercase letters because she believes that what is most
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important is the "substance of books, not who I am." A professor of English at Berea College, Overland, USC, and Yale, to name a few, Hooks drew much of her conversation and speech from the approximately twenty books she has written. hooks stated she felt lucky to have been born in the 1950's because of the racial a partite, in addition to the civil rights and feminist movements that occurred. hooks discussed how one of the things she felt most fortunate for is the critical reflection humans hold about what happens around us, touting this to be one of life's great teachers. She also raised the question of what it means to love justice, and told the story of during a
time she was in high school how black and white people were in fear of their life, just by being friends with one another. Giving some very interesting statistics about the different stigmas among blacks and whites in a modern society, she made the listeners in the audience begin to question if much has changed over the past few decades. This debate still stands as we continue to look at the vision of freedom and democracy and in how we articulate each of these in a modern sense. She came to the conclusion that progressive thinkers are still "locked in" to a way of binary thinking, meaning some aspects of racial segregation have changed drastically, while
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SHARING KNOWLEDGE: bell hooks speaks to Rollins in a public lecture after recently appearing for a book discussion.
others still have not. In discussing the dichotomy that still exists between blacks and whites today, she proclaimed real estate to be a bastion of
white supremacy. This led into mention of certain parts of the country where it is more normal for educated wealthy blacks to be the pre-
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