Paul Simon's Travel Narrative
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Rosemary Magee, Vice President and Secretary, talks about her memories of listening to Paul Simon while she was a college undergrad. Simon, she says, "helped create a travel narrative of our lives." Paul Simon will deliver the 2013 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University, February 10-12, 2013. The Ellmann Lectures consist of a series of public lectures that are ticketed but free and open to the public. Simon's lectures will concern, in part, an overview of the historical antecedents of the music made between 1966 and 1970. Rosemary Magee is the newly appointed director of MARBL, Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. As a professor and administrator, she has worked to strengthen interdisciplinary scholarship, the arts, and creativity. An essayist and fiction writer, she believes in the power of stories, poetry, and songs to shape our world.
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