THE ITHACAN

Professor to speak on creative writing at Columbia

By Nicole Arocho, Staff Writer • November 27, 2012

The anthropology department at Columbia University invited Professor Catherine Taylor to give her lecture, titled “Between Art and Politics: ‘Ficto-Criticism’ and Suspended Genres,” and a reading from “Apart” on Thursday.

Images that ‘standalone’ — Oct. 25, 2012

By Alex MasonDurst BreneiserSabrina Knight, Staff Photographers and Assistant Photo Editor • October 29, 2012

The Ithacan's standalone images tell the stories that lack a full-fledged article. So here they make a jump into the online world.

Literary journalist explores treatment of books

By Meredith Tooker, Contributing Writer • October 29, 2012

Anne Fadiman, adjunct professor of English at Yale University, will discuss the intimate and personal relationships readers build with books in her presentation titled “Using Bacon as Bookmarks: How Readers Treat Their Books” on Nov. 13 in Emerson Suites.

Professor discusses Eastern European TV

By Justin Barwick, Contributing Writer • September 27, 2012

Professor Kati Lustyik discusses her studies in Eastern European television practices.

Author explores unexplored

By Marissa Smith, Chief Proofreader • March 7, 2012

The new book “Da Vinci’s Ghost” is the first work to look exclusively at the origins of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing, “Vitruvian Man.” The book’s author, Toby Lester, examines the evolution of the drawing and the ideas that the figure represents, such as that man is a microcosm of the world and that the…

Author blossoms with complex novel

By Marissa Smith, Chief Copy Editor • September 28, 2011

In burgeoning writer Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s “The Language of Flowers,” the Victorian idea of flowers having their own messages is used as a way to tell a story of betrayal, motherhood, love and ultimately redemption.

Professor writes national best-seller

By Jesse Maeshiro, Staff Writer • September 14, 2011

Fierce passion and an unparalleled determination are characteristics shared by both the people in Eleanor Henderson’s debut novel “Ten Thousand Saints” and the author herself.