Adam Sexton

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Lecturer in English

M.F.A. Writing, Columbia University
B.A. English, University of Pennsylvania

Adam Reid Sexton’s writing has been published in the Bellevue Literary Review, the Boston Phoenix, the New York Times, Off AssignmentPost Road, the Village Voice, and other publications.  His books include Difficult Listening (forthcoming from Routledge in 2023) and Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway, and Other Greats (McGraw-Hill, 2005).  With a team of visual artists he adapted four of Shakespeare’s tragedies as manga (Japanese-style graphic novels), and his anthology Rap on Rap was acquired by Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research.

Selected Publications

- Letter to A Stranger

- Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway, and Other Greats

- Rap on Rap

Courses

English 120: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay; English 121: Writing About Music; English 404: Reading Fiction for Craft; English 489: Writing Concentration Senior Project

www.adamsexton.net