Alumni News

While the economic and automotive crises have forced many Detroit business owners to shut their doors, Jason Murphy '09 and Ben Hall '04 can barely keep the door of their deli closed.

San Francisco Chronicle food and wine editor Michael Bauer dedicated a to author and longtime editor Judith Jones '45, whose latest memoir, , has received favorable reviews from and elsewhere.

Fans of the best-selling are sinking their teeth into Melissa Rosenberg '86's , which hit 5,500 screens starting with a midnight viewing on November 21.

During a post-Katrina panel discussion with a group of New Orleans-based artists in early 2006, Dan Cameron '79, then-senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, just blurted it out: "A biennial would go really, really well in New Orleans."

MFA faculty member Amy Hempel and Fiona Maazel MFA '02 have both received $30,000 literary prizes for their contributions to fiction.