Amherst College posts videos from the various Lit Fest 2016 events. The videos feature Angela Flournoy, Lauren Groff ’01, Deborah Treisman, Harold Augenbraum and Jen Acker ’00.
HELEN WHYBROW
A bird is not born knowing how to fly. Not exactly. Leaping off a rafter and opening two perfectly constructed aerodynamic wings will get a fledgling only so far—usually to another rafter, or a spot on the ground, or sometimes to a confusing corner of a window where an invisible cobweb will wrap
DAN CHIASSON
Burlington’s first public Xerox machines were located in the basement of Capitol Stationers on Church Street. Upstairs, schoolchildren roamed the aisles for markers, sparkle and glue. Downstairs, at the copiers, metalheads ran off posters for their bands and teenagers occasionally xeroxed their bare asses.
AATISH TASEER
The Bosporus dramatized dualities. It did not resolve them. Here, one lived in a perpetual state of cultural whiplash. The perturbation one felt in Istanbul came from having to carry the city’s myriad selves in mind at once. Protean city! It could change on a dime, and one had to be ready to change with it.
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