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Weissman Center hosts Tahmima Anam

Weissman Center hosts Tahmima Anam

On one of the warmest days in March, Mount Holyoke students and professors from many of the Five Colleges gathered in Hooker Auditorium for a conversation with Tahmima Anam, an award-winning author, New York Times columnist and Mount Holyoke alum from the class of 1997.

Emily Arsenault ’98 draws on Mount Holyoke ghost stories in her new book

Emily Arsenault ’98 draws on Mount Holyoke ghost stories in her new book

Content warning: this article mentions suicide.

“This is what it means to be a ghost. To watch all the other girls live — laugh, talk, sleep, eat, dance, study, scream — while you flicker and fade into the shadows,” an unnamed narrator declares, opening “When All the Girls Are Sleeping,” published July 13, 2021, the latest novel by Mount Holyoke alumna Emily Arsenault ’98.

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