The SLF Album is the first comprehensive story of the University of
Notre Dame's Sophomore Literary Festival. This portrait focuses
primarily on the literary giants whose presence has made this
festival one of the nation's most esteemed. It also gives us a
fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at this thirty year-old
phenomenon which has always been organized, coordinated, and
managed by students. Established in 1967 as a week-long Faulknerian
festival, in 1968 the Sophomore Literary Festival came into its own
with a series of readings and workshops by some of the country's
most prestigious writers, including Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller,
Kurt Vonnegut, and Ralph Ellison. The precedent set in 1968 became
a legacy which has carried through to 1996, and DeCicco's portrait
presents each year as its own chapter. equal on importance and
prestige to all previous years. In addition to providing excerpts
from the writers' readings and lectures, DeCicco describes the
sophomore committee's author selection process and events which
shed light ion the fame and foibles of many literary greats.
DeCicco's success in portraying the participating internationally
acclaimed authors, who include Margaret Atwood, Allen Ginsberg,
Arthur Miller, Robert Bly, Tennessee Williams, Joyce Carol Oates,
Edward Albee, Susan Sontag, Gloria Naylor, is uniquely tied to the
intimacy of the Notre Dame setting. Her record encompasses the
mythical images of these world-renowned authors in the context of a
modest student-run festival at a midwestern private university.
This comprehensive history is important and fascinating reading for
all who have experienced the magic of Notre Dame's Sophomore
Literary Festival, as well as for anyone interested in the arts.
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