{"id":882,"date":"2017-09-21T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/?p=882"},"modified":"2017-09-27T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T20:27:43","slug":"third-annual-alumni-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2017\/09\/21\/third-annual-alumni-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Third (Annual) Alumni Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

“A Series of Fortunate Events”<\/em>\"\"<\/p>\n

Upon graduation, Brendan Curry was hired by W.W. Norton, the international book publisher headquartered\u00a0 in mid-town Manhattan as an editorial assistant and was recently named Senior Editor & Vice President.\u00a0 He will be on campus Wednesday, October 4, 2017 in The DeNaples Center, room 405.\u00a0 Brendan will discuss his time at the University, his career arc at Norton, and the ever-evolving state of the editing and publishing industries and employment prospects for English Majors in the years ahead.<\/p>\n

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“A Series of Fortunate Events” Upon graduation, Brendan Curry was hired by W.W. Norton, the international book publisher headquartered\u00a0 in mid-town Manhattan as an editorial assistant and was recently named Senior Editor & Vice President.\u00a0 He will be on campus Wednesday, October 4, 2017 in The DeNaples Center, room 405.\u00a0 Brendan will discuss his timeContinue reading “Third (Annual) Alumni Lecture”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,60,34,58,6,22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-current-department-news","category-editing","category-jobs-for-english-majors","category-opportunities","category-publishing","category-reasons-to-study-literature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":912,"url":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/englishandtheatre\/2017\/10\/10\/alumni-lecture\/","url_meta":{"origin":882,"position":0},"title":"Alumni Lecture","author":"Mrs. Melissa Eckenrode","date":"October 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"At the Department of English & Theatre's Third (Annual) Alumni Lecture, Brendan Curry, graduate of the English and SJLA programs in 2001, gave a talk entitled, \"A Series of Fortunate Events,\" on October 4, 2017.\u00a0 Curry is a Vice President and Senior Editor at W.W. 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