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Our next Book Club welcomes William “Bill” Huhn ’85! Bachelor Holiday, his recently published book of poetry, is a bittersweet, multi-dimensional recollection of his travels after Vassar and a 2024 Literary Titan Gold Book Award Winner.
Wednesday, December 11th, 7:30pm, Zoom
Lynn Janovsky ’86 will lead the discussion
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Last chance to sign up for our film industry alum panel! Five Brewers will discuss the contemporary realities of the field, how they arrived at their current positions, and what’s ahead for cinematic artists. RSVP by November 28th!
Our panelists: Clyde Folley ‘08, Ash Hoyle ‘18, Penny Lane ‘01, Aimee Lyde ‘93, and Areej Noor ‘06
Thursday, December 5th, 6:30pm
Sony, 25 Madison Avenue
connect.vassar.edu/VCNY_FilmAnother fantastic Fall Fête is in the books! Thank you to everyone who attended, our visiting professors, and our incredible sponsors!
Events
December 5, 2024, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
25 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10010-3685, United States
Join VCNY for a panel discussion featuring five Brewers with careers spanning across the film industry.
The conversation will touch on contemporary realities of the field, how they arrived at their current positions, and what’s ahead for cinematic artists such as these alums.
Clyde Folley ’08 is a video editor and film programmer. He is on staff at the Criterion Collection and his programming credits include ’80s Horror, Giallo!, and Horror F/X on the Criterion Channel and Starring Brad Dourif at Anthology Film Archives.
Ash Hoyle ’18 is a features programmer at the Sundance Film Festival. He has also worked as the Festival Director at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Director of Programming of Damn These Heels Film Festival, and Senior Programmer at Outfest Los Angeles. He is a 2021 Project Involve Fellow and graduate of Vassar College.
Penny Lane ’01 has been making award-winning, innovative nonfiction films for over a decade. This includes six features —most recently Confessions of a Good Samaritan (Netflix) and Listening to Kenny G (HBO). And yes, Penny Lane is her real name.
Aimee Lyde ’93 is a film and television editor with over 25 years of experience working in fiction and documentary features and shorts, commercials, trailers, and music videos.
Areej Noor ’06 is a Somali-American writer, producer, political analyst, and entrepreneur. At MSNBC, she produced Up with Steve Kornacki, a roundtable discussion news program. Prior to that, she did a stint with Al-Jazeera English. Areej began her career as a researcher for the Brookings Institution focused on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. Her writings have been featured in the Times of India, Gulf News, and international editions of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar among other publications. After consulting for the World Bank, she founded STATEMENT. Areej is based in New York City and Cairo.
Space is limited. Please RSVP by Thursday, November 28.
December 11, 2024, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Join the Vassar Club of New York Book Club via Zoom at 7:30 p.m. ET when we will welcome William “Bill” Huhn ’85 and discuss his recently published book of poetry, Bachelor Holiday. Lynn Janovsky ’86 will lead the discussion. Approximate runtime 60-90 minutes. Zoom link will be included in your registration confirmation email.
Bachelor Holiday, a 2024 Literary Titan Gold Book Award Winner, includes poems written back in the author’s twenties, and every poem has its own little spirit, waiting to be felt by whoever taps into it.
“The precise, evocative poems in William Huhn’s Bachelor Holiday bring us to places we’ve never been, then bring us back to where we are today… Along the way, the speaker guides us with an artist’s eye for detail and a poet’s sense of language… These poems will lift and transport...”
–Thaddeus Rutkowski, author of Safe Colors and Haywire, a No. 1 best-seller on Small Press Distribution's fiction list
William Huhn ’85 grew up in an old house in Pennsylvania overflowing with books. He studied classical violin from age five, then took up old time fiddle. Shortly after graduating from Vassar College with a chemistry degree, he published his first poem. Uninspired by lab work, he played fiddle across Europe, to finance his poetry. His poems found their way into The Carolina Quarterly, Verse Daily, Talking River Review, 34th Parallel, and elsewhere, and they form the backbone for his first full-length collection, Bachelor Holiday (BlazeVOX Books, 2024). William is a 2024 Literary Titan Gold Book Award Winner, which recognizes poets who demonstrate exceptional artistry and proficiency and push the boundaries of language and expression. He lives just outside New York City with his wife, son, and daughter.
Bachelor Holiday is available at your local bookstore, Blaze VOX Books, and Amazon.
