UNC Student Organization for Undergraduate Literature

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The gist: Smart People is a story about a pompous English professor, who in the years following his wife’s death, has become a scourge to his students and an emotionally absent father to his rebellious son James (Ashton Holmes) and his perfect preppy daughter Vanessa (Ellen Page). When he suffers a concussion in a freak accident, he meets and unexpectedly falls for an E.R. doctor (Sarah Jessica Parker), a brilliant former student who is still harboring a grudge over a bad grade he gave her years before.

(Yes, I copied that from Wikipedia.)

Hey guys! Since you're all (or at least most of you are) English majors, you should have received an e-mail from Mark Richardson about CLOUD's meeting tonight. Just in case you didn't, though, here are the details:

Interested in Literature? Film? Delicious Free Food? Join CLOUD!

The Comparative Literature Organization for Undergraduate Discussion (CLOUD) is a group open to all students interested in the study and discussion of literature and film. CLOUD hosts a number of events throughout the school year, including the Cult Lit Classics Discussion Series and the International Film Series in the Spring.

Informational Meeting
Tuesday, January 22nd
7:30-8:30pm
Union Rm. 3408
FREE Pizza and Ice Cream!

CLOUD is like the Comp. Lit department's SOUL, and are a really cool group. Mark and I have made some contact in the past about SOUL and CLOUD, and we think it would be a great idea for the two organizations to work together on some things. We've a lot of dovetailing interests, after all.

So, if any of you can make it out to the meeting tonight, that would be awesome. I'll hopefully be there, and would love to see more SOUL members present.

unfortunately, i couldn't stay for the entirety of the AWESOMENESS that was the oscar wilde dinner extravaganza, but i did manage to take some really crappy pictures that looked better in black and white or in trippy colors than normal coloration. but who wants to be normal? certainly not the wilde.
for what it's worth,
m

"You are invited to come see DDA Mainstage's fall production, Coyote on a Fence, by Bruce Graham and directed by PRC actor and drama professor Ken Strong!

Fri, Oct 12 at 8:15pm
Sat, Oct 13 at 8:15pm
Sun, Oct 14 at 8:15pm
Mon, Oct 15 at 4pm and 8:15pm
Tues, Oct 16 at 5pm

**guest speakers will give post-show discussions after the shows on Sunday night and Monday afternoon.

"Coyote on a Fence" is set on Death Row in a Texas prison. Two convicted murderers, John Brennan and Bobby Reyburn, form an uneasy friendship in the shadow of their impending executions. The two men, seeming opposites in background, education and sanity, prod and test one another's beliefs while revealing unexpected facets of their own personalities. In their cells, in the exercise yard, reacting with "outsiders" (a reporter and a prison guard) the fluid nature of guilt and responsibility, conscience and criminality are explored and tested by the pair.

(The play contains adult language, racial epithets and violence. It is recommended for mature audiences only. )"

I'm going, who would like to join me?

It turns out that Romeo and Juliet is playing currently until October 14th. We should pick a day to go on Thursday.
-Joel

"Award-winning author and scholar Reynolds Price will deliver the 2007 Thomas Wolfe Lecture at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, October 3 at the Carrol Hall Auditorium."

This is a great literary event right on campus, free and open to the public. Let's help make for a great turnout.

Another blurb about Price:

"Reynolds Price is an acclaimed novelist, biblical scholar, poet, and beloved teacher at Duke University. He has clearly had, by prescient luck, hard work, destiny, and maybe divine gift, an actual "Long and Happy Life," the title of his first novel in 1961.

After graduating from Duke in 1955, he went to Merton College as a Rhodes Scholar and wrote his thesis on Milton's Samson Agonistes. Later in life, he wrote, with his friend singer James Taylor, the lyrics to the songs "Copperline" and "New Hymn." In his role of biblical and ancient language scholar, he wrote his own translation and interpretation of the gospels of Mark and John. "

- http://english.unc.edu/morgan_program/rpbio.html

We're holding an events planning meeting this Thursday at 5 in the Donovan Lounge. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss what progress we've made with the Wilde dinner (catering, advertising, whatever else you've come up with). See you then. - S.

So there's going to be a play this weekend, called Mere Mortals, and though it's not really literary, I'll be going.
It's described as
A collection of six one-acts by David Ives. Each performance will be in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art on UNC's campus. Admission, as to all of Lab!'s shows, is free... so really, you have no excuse not to come!!!

Here are the performance dates and times:

9/28 at 8.15
9/29 at 2
9/30 at 8.15
10/1 at 4 and 8.15
10/2 at 5

Let me know if anyone wants to join me.

-Joel

For the events planning meeting this Thursday at 5, we're *not* meeting in the Donovan Lounge, we're meeting outside Greenlaw (the entrance closer to Lenoir) and walking somewhere from there. We'll stick around for a few mins. after 5, for late-comers. If you arrive super late and we're not there, look for us on the steps of Wilson or out on the quad. See you then. -S.

We're having an events planning meeting September 20th (Thursday) at 5 in the Donovan Lounge.

Come if you can. We'll talk about what's next--Wilde's Partay, and/or an event to be held prior to that--and sketch some other things. Thanks.

Sarah