Community Engagement

Sponsored by Oxy's Pre-Law Department 

Kushner’s new novel, The Mars Room, was published on May 1st, 2018, and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Kushner is also the author of The Flamethrowers, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Five Novel of 2013. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. A collection of her early work, The Strange Case of Rachel K, was published by New Directions in 2015. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and the Paris Review.

The Central Park Five, a 2012 film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, explores the story of the miscarriage of justice that engulfed Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise, the black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of the horrific 1989 crime. The brutal beating and rape of a white woman in New York City's Central Park provoked public outrage and sensational headlines during the prosecution and conviction of the five defendants.

Building on a long and storied tradition of fine-printing at Occidental, this beautiful book came about as a result of collaboration with LA poet Suzanne Lummis, who taught a 6 week creative writing course in Spring 2017 with the NELA community, Oxy students, and local poets. We very much hope you will join us in this celebration of their accomplishment and of the holiday season!

Beginning in 2001, Bruno taught in many departments at Oxy for 13 years, including courses in Art, Cognitive Science, Film, Music, and Theater, served as director of the Keck Language and Cultural Studio, and composed original music and created sound designs for a number of Theater Department productions.

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