MARS

Author Laura Sims Hosted at Second MARS Reading

March 27, 2019

by Katie Heneghan & Madalyn Johnson, Features Editor and Asst. A&E Editor The Major Author Reading Series (MARS) welcomed its second author of the semester, Laura Sims, to read from her thrilling novel, Looker. On March 12, the campus [...]

Major Author Reading Series Begins Semester with Álvaro Enrigue

February 27, 2019

by Nicole Rodriguez, Asst. Production Editor Álvaro Enrigue, a Mexican novelist, short story writer, and essayist, kicked off this semester’s Major Author Reading Series, otherwise known as MARS. The Manhattan College English Department’s own [...]

Fiction Writer Meghan Kenny Visits MC for Second MARS Reading

October 24, 2017

by David Valentin Contributor Last Thursday night, Manhattan College had Meghan Kenny, high school teacher, short story writer and novelist, speak in Hayden 100 for a reading from her book of short stories “Love Is No Small Thing” and a glimpse [...]

“Every Novel’s Voice is an Act of Imagination” MARS: Stephen Kiernan

April 7, 2017

by Adanna Carter Contributor A writer has the mentality to create their own fiction, the ability to conjure up their own characters, the power to create their own meaning, the skills to make up their own plots, the narration to teach their own [...]

Erica Dawson Closes Fall 2014 MARS Season

November 18, 2014

Outside the window, a cold and inconstant rain pours over Hayden Hall. Dominika Wrozynski talks about a special ability some writers have that permits them to move easily from Chopin to Descartes back and forth, touching ideas from Freud during a [...]

Ben Marcus at MARS: Addicted to Literature

October 27, 2014

“It’s just too dangerous now to take a lot of drugs. I got a job, I got kids… I’m just too busy. I can’t take those amazing drugs because I know I have to teach tomorrow,” Ben Marcus said. “But I was thinking about how these stories [...]

Poet Jen McClanaghan Kicks Off MARS Season

September 22, 2014

DANIEL MOLINA STAFF WRITER In an almost full Hayden Hall Auditorium, professor, poet and writer Jen McClanaghan kicked off the Major Authors Reading Series (MARS), presenting her last book, “River Legs” in front of students and teachers at [...]

Not Shakespeare, Not Whitman, but Jane Springer

April 8, 2014

Poet Jane Springer Reads at Second MARS Event When Assistant Professor of English Dominika Wrozynski stood in front of an almost full room in Hayden 100 to introduce poet Jane Springer, she spoke of how she returns to Springer’s poetry again and [...]

“Adjectives are Butter”: Celebrated Poet Kwame Dawes Reads to MC

March 25, 2014

While introducing speaker Kwame Dawes at the first MARS event of the spring semester, Assistant Professor of English Dr. Adam Koehler ended with his favorite Dawes quote: “Adjectives are butter.” Just before spring break on Wednesday, March 12 [...]