#hunter mfa

[coreyallenart]

Boogeyman, 2019

Looping digital video, audio, analog television

VIDEO SOON

[coreyallenart]

Sweetpea, Sweetheart, 2019 Looping digital video, audio, analog television

VIDEO SOON

[michael-blake]

Jude Broughan at Hunter MFA 2014

[michael-blake]

Hunter MFA 2015! Holy SHIT! New York homies holler at me <3

[thebookstheygaveme]

McCann.

I wouldn't say I'm a complete loner, but I'd be lying if I called myself a social butterfly. Despite my inability to claim that I’m either one or the other, however, I can say that I do have a few close friends who like me, love books—even if we don't always go for the same authors or genres. Fortunately or unfortunately, the ones I see most frequently are the ones who never go for the same type of books. Opposites attract, I suppose.

In my second year of college, I received Let The Great World Spin from my closest friend who, by the way, doesn't know anything about literature. And yet he still managed to find a book I ended up loving.

At the time that he handed it to me—without much grace, to be honest, since we were both in a rush—I wasn't the slightest bit curious of how he made it out of the literature section alive since he only takes books on philosophy, finance, programming (and pretty much anything and everything that isn’t literature) seriously. But when I asked him, much later on, why he decided to go with Colum McCann's wonderful book, he simply said: "One of the guys at the store recommended it, and I trusted his taste more than mine." (Or was it: "I grabbed whatever had a 'bestseller' label on it"?) Well, whatever his exact words were, the book was, and still is, great. What made him get it in the first place doesn’t matter. The fact that he had the courage to step out of his comfort zone to purchase something from my comfort zone is an act worth appreciating.

A few weeks after I'd finished reading the book (and told him how much I'd loved it), he asked if he could borrow it for a while. As I’d expected, I didn’t have to wait very long for him to knock on my door. "I know you love it, but it's not my thing," he said as he took the book out of his bag and returned it to me. "I don't get it."

And yet half a year later, he gave me another novel. I guess opposites do attract. But more importantly, I learned that the love for reading goes beyond genres. The book that is given is only a physical symbol of something bigger than one reader is willing to share with another: the experience of reading itself.

[akacocolopez]

I will be participating in Hunter College  MFA Open Studios this weekend.

Friday, April 27th from 6pm-10pm Saturday, April 28th from 2pm-6pm Silent Auction will be held Friday, April 27th from 6pm-9pm  450 West 41st Street  (by Dyer Ave. btw 9th and 10th Ave)  1, 2, 3, 7, A, C, E, N, R, Q to  Port Authority-Times Square-42nd Street

[nathanenglander-blog]

Today from the Hunter MFA Listserv

My condensed version of a post by Gabriel Packard. Another shout-out to a fabulous former student.

Liz Moore is dominating with her new novel Heft (published last week by Norton). Here are new reviews in the Salt Lake Tribune and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. You can currently find Heft (along with Alex Gilvarry’s new novel, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant) on the front table at the Union Square Barnes & Noble. Here’s a list of upcoming readings by Liz.