Stanford UniversityNews and information about Stanford University. News and information from the best feeds offered by Stanford University.Tobias Wolff's latest book of new and selected stories, Our Story Begins, is hitting the best-seller lists!- April 24, 2008 "Wolff's alchemy in these stories is oddly and deeply transformative. They inevitably rise above their ostensible subject into some universal terrain. How Wolff achieves this effect is something of a miracle. . . ." San Francisco Chronicle, March 16, 2008http://english.stanford.edu/index.php?news_id=159 Silverfish, Professor Saikat Majumdar's debut novel- April 7, 2008 A brilliant debut novel in which personal histories crisscross to delineate the social history of a city . . . "This is a book to cherish for a very long time, for its descriptions and evocations as well as for what it tells us about the ebb and flow of human expectation." - Amit Chaudhurihttp://english.stanford.edu/index.php?news_id=155 |