Join us for the next episode of On Words & Onward on February 22! We will be speaking with Writers on Writing series editor Jay Parini and author Robert Cohen, who wrote the most recent book in the series, Going to the Tigers: Essays and Exhortations.

The conversation will center on the series’ guiding principle that to be a good writer you need to be a good reader as well. The Writers on Writing series brings together the work of some of our finest writers on the subject they know best, discussing their own work and that of others, as well as concentrating on craft and other aspects of the writer's world.

Attendees are welcome to submit questions for a short question and answer period. The event recording will be posted to YouTube.

In addition, during the month of February, you can also take 40% off all books in the Writers on Writing Series by using the discount code “UMWOW” at checkout on our website: https://www.press.umich.edu/browse/series/UMWOW


About the Speakers:

Jay Parini, series editor of Writers on Writing, is also a poet, novelist, biographer, critic, and longtime professor at Middlebury College. He has published over thirty books.

Robert Cohen is the author of Inspired Sleep, Amateur Barbarians, and The Varieties of Romantic Experience, among other works of fiction. His honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches at Middlebury College, and has previously taught fiction at Harvard, the Iowa Writers Workshop, the Bread Loaf Conference, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.