In this week's New York Times Sunday Book Review former MFA and fiction fellow, EMMA STRAUB, is included in an essay about writers who choose to work in bookstores. That's Emma's first book, Other People We Married, along with with the note mentioned in the Times' article.

And in the latest edition of e-Annotations, our English Department's online newsletter, alumni PATRICK SOMMERVILLE, reflects on why it's so important for writers to study literature.