Fall 2009 Nonfiction Reading Series Welcomes Jack Cavanaugh on October 1

Veteran sportswriter and nonfiction writer Jack Cavanaugh will join us for our Nonfiction Reading Series during Homecoming Week. A Syracuse University alumnus, Cavanaugh is author of three nonfiction books, Giants Among Men: How Robustelli, Huff, Gifford, and the Giants Made New York a Football Town and Changed the NFL (Random House, 2008), and Tunney:  Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey (Random House, 2006), and Damn the Disabilities: Full Speed Ahead (WRS Publishing, 1995). Tunney was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography.

 His work has appeared most notably on the sports pages of The New York Times, for which he has covered hundreds of varied sports assignments.  In addition, he has been a frequent contributor to Sports Illustrated and written for Reader’s Digest, Tennis, and Golf magazines, and other national publications. Over his career, he has covered scores of major boxing bouts, along with the Olympics, the World Series, Super Bowl games, the Masters Golf Tournament, and both the U.S. golf and tennis opens. He is also a former reporter for ABC News and CBS News. Cavanaugh is currently an adjunct writing professor at Fairfield University.  

Download a selection of Jack Cavanaugh's published articles (zip file).

Cavanaugh will speak/read from his work for our Nonfiction Reading Series on Thursday October 1, 2009 from 4:00-5:00 p.m in 500 Hall of Languages. Syracuse University Bookstore will be on hand with his books to sell, and Jack will be signing books immediately after the reading.

Susan Faludi

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist/nonfiction writer Susan Faludi will be on campus as part of the Feminist Rhetorics for Social Justice Symposium and as part of the Writing Program's Nonfiction Reading Series. WP Director Eileen Schell invites you to join us in opportunities to meet Faludi and discuss her work. She is looking forward to talking with our students, answering questions, and getting into dialogue about her books and work as a writer. Please let your students know and encourage them to attend. Copies of Faludi’s three books are in the 239 office for check-out.  
 
 Thursday, October 23, 2008

Bio

With her seminal book Backlash, Susan Faludi charted a new course for Feminism in America.  Over her esteemed career, Faludi has chronicled-with astonishing clarity- the changing roles of men and women in society, becoming one of our most provocative voices on women’s rights.  In her major new work, The Terror Dream, she examines, as only she can, the political and cultural fallout from 9/11.

Susan Faludi's Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women was praised by Publishers Weekly as an "eloquent, brilliantly argued book that should be read by everyone concerned about gender equality." The book was her monumental investigation into the backlash against feminism in the 1980s and the assault against career-minded women. A bestseller, Backlash established Faludi in the tradition of towering Feminist authors: she stood with Gloria Steinem on the cover of Time, while Newsweek said the book was "as groundbreaking as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique."

In her latest release, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America, Faludi gives us an unflinching dissection of the mind of America during the war on terror. In probing and accessible prose, Faludi boldly explores how our media and our politicians responded to the terrorist attacks by calling for a return to a society where men are men and women are victims—and how this thinking, rooted in our earliest mythologies, has made America a weaker and less secure place. "This is a book that had to be written," writes Barbara Ehrenreich, "and only Susan Faludi could do it so brilliantly and engrossingly."

Faludi is a winner of The Pulitzer Prize and The National Book Critics Circle Award. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Nation and The New York Times, and is also the author of Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man. In her popular talks, she challenges modern stereotypes and explores the way gender roles have changed and developed in America in the past few decades. Encouraging audiences to re-evaluate their own views and convictions, she shows them what work remains to be done for true equality to be achieved.