Past Programs
Education - 2008
The Abstinence Teacher
16/04/2008
In his fifth novel, Tom Perrotta pits a left-of-centre, 40-something sex education teacher against a born-again, reformed drug addict. The Abstinence Teacher explores the politics of sex education in middle America.
The business of writing
27/02/2008
The annual gathering of America's Association of Writers and Writing Programs was held in New York recently. The list of speakers boasted names such as John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates and Martin Amis. Writer, columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda joined the throng.
