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'Never Be Daunted'
You follow Bill Gorton's drunken advice in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: “Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted." That's Professor Mark Axelrod all over. II. How the John Fowles Center Got to Be Called The John Fowles Center, or, The Axelrodian Thing.The fact that Chapman University, located as it is in the modest academic backwater of Orange, California, has something called the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing, named after a major British writer (very recently deceased) who spent most of his adult life isolated in the tiny seaport village of Lyme Regis, England, writing novels like The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus fairly screams out for an explanation. And the explanation is Mark Axelrod. Back in his twenties, after dropping out of dental school and not signing the screenwriting contract that could have meant his entrée into big Hollywood money, Axelrod shuffled up to Carmel, where he took up shelter in a converted garage with a tiny bed and a space heater, got a job in an art gallery, and worked, bohemianly, on a new novel.
Insect Love
There's nothing dry and academic about the visual art of literature professor Brian Kubarycz. by Brian Staker A lot of artists provoke discussions about their body of work, but an upcoming exhibition debuts pictures that take the somatic as their subject like few locals working today. Brian Kubarycz has over the last several years accumulated a portfolio that is primed for viewing now and, while not pulling any punches, still manages to intrigue and surprise. He arrived at painting through an indirect route, as a sidestep from his studies of literature. Kubarycz has been studying and teaching for more than 10 years at the University of Utah, where he earned a Ph.D. in English literature (creative writing) and an MFA in creative writing. He is an associate instructor in the honors program at the U, where he has been recognized with the Distinguished Honors Professor of the Year, Tanner Fellowship in the Humanities, and the Steffenson-Cannon Scholarship in the Humanities awards.
Teaching cursive effortlessly
Inga Dubay could never have guessed that one handwritten letter from a friend would be the beginning of a lifelong fascination with handwriting.
"The letter was written in italic handwriting," Dubay said. "The letters were just so beautiful, I thought to myself, 'I'm going to learn how to do this!'"
Living in Ashland during the mid-'60s, Dubay's academic career began to go down a different path after receiving the letter.
"I was originally a painting and drawing major," Dubay said. "I thought, 'I'll just take one class and learn italic calligraphy.' Then the next term was the history of letters, and I just got more and more interested in the subject."
Now, Dubay is one half of the Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series, along with her business partner Barbara Getty.
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