Posted: March 12th, 2006 | Author: Cameron | Filed under: Audio, New Media, Photography | Tags: Audio, Carleton, Carleton College, Carleton College Gould Library, New Media, Photography | No Comments »
Nearing the end of my time at Carleton College, I sought to find and document those events – in a confluence of very special conditions – that only occur in such a college environment. The removed, rural setting of the college and intensely academic though thoroughly eccentric student populous produces many of these events and one very special one occurs the Friday before the first exam at the end of the term.
Winter term especially, with its pent up academic frustration and incubated angst, requires a unique outlet through performance and song. This slideshow piece attempts to follow the happenings in the Carleton College Gould Library through the night, from improvisation performances deriding the school across the river, St. Olaf, to the acapella groups the school is famous for.
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Posted: November 21st, 2005 | Author: Cameron | Filed under: Audio | Tags: Audio, Carleton, Carleton College, Carleton College English Department, Emily Schwing, KRLX, Mike Kowaleski, Mike Kowalewski, Miscellany | No Comments »
This audio piece, recorded and produced with Emily Schwing (NPR News, Carleton College ‘05), examines the history of the Carleton Miscellany through an interview with and poetry reading by Mike Kowaleski of the Carleton College English Department. The teaser:
In its heyday, The Carleton Miscellany was a contemporary, avante-garde and unpretentious compilation of some of the best comtemporary American literature. For exactly 20 years subscribers from all over the country -and world – flocked to its pages, consuming the work by some of the greatest authors to come out of the 20th century.
But what happened? Why did the Miscellany disappear just as abruptly as it started? And where are the back issues today? One of Carleton’s favorite English professors, Mike Kowalewski of the Carleton English department, introduces us to what was once one of the Midwest’s most celebrated and sought-after private publications.
Original Piece
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Piece in KRLX’s Periscope Program
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