Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Spring / Summer 2007)
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2007
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Bennington College
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Bennington College Greens Up; Barcelona Architectural Drawing Intensive; Spotlight on Philanthropy; Alumni & Faculty Bookcase; In a Tub MFA Writing Seminars faculty member Amy Hempel offers the first story from her acclaimed collection; Faculty Notes; Faculty member—and former Minister of Transport for South Africa—Mac Maharaj speaks; Why Minister of Transport? (Book excerpt) Nelson Mandela describes his colleague Mac
Maharaj in an excerpt of the foreword to Maharaj’s biography; Novelist Kiran Desai ’93 wins the Man Booker Prize; Jules Olitski in Memoriam; In an excerpt from Art and Objecthood, the author and critic lauds Jules Olitski’s paintings; Behind the Screens with Melissa Rosenberg ’86; In an excerpt from his essay The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem ’86 argues for a “cultural commons.”; Alumni Events 2007; Still My Bennington; Class Notes; In Memoriam