Penn Students Travel Cross-Country to Collect Pandemic Stories For more details, including the judges' comments on the winning work, click here. We stand outside on the Monsters deck and people-watch hordes of kids darting around to various pre-games, many clutching bottles of cheap champagne. He also authored the 2011 New York Times bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hemingways Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, and in 2003, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy. I found I really love this work, says Jinich. Jessica Blatt Press: When you set out on this road trip, what was your goaldid you two have a hypothesis about what youd find, or what were you seeking? Yes, of course they should, and they did, at the invitation of a local farming family, joining most of the town, population 600, that spring evening. Alan Jinich, Ants [composite] Elyssa Chou, Voronoi. Theres a line on 39th. Initially I was thinking of just following one person around for the entire semester, but he seemed to be really excited by the idea of a tone poem, a sort of noir perspective of Penn after midnight. Though he is a neuroscience major with an English minor, Jinich, who took the photos, found the journey so fulfilling, hes interested in pursuing similar work as a career. For questions about membership or to opt out, please email [emailprotected]. The four women are graduates of Penns class of 88. They were really just very open-ended conversations. The Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce this year's winners. News | Department of English They want to revisit people they interviewed and look for new subjects in other towns and cities. I ate a lot of burgers, thats the one thing youll find anywhere. For a weekly dose of ideas, solutions and practical action steps, sign up for our newsletter: (function($) {window.fnames = new Array(); window.ftypes = new Array();fnames[0]='EMAIL';ftypes[0]='email';fnames[1]='FNAME';ftypes[1]='text';fnames[2]='LNAME';ftypes[2]='text';fnames[3]='ADDRESS';ftypes[3]='address';fnames[4]='PHONE';ftypes[4]='phone';fnames[5]='BIRTHDAY';ftypes[5]='birthday';}(jQuery));var $mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true); And follow us on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram. When there was no longer space in the world for us, we had to make our mark somehow. Alan Jinich, Untitled [composite] Chelsea Cheng, Yu. But how did this experience change what you want to do in the future? Recurring membership charges will reflect the stated price of basic membership or Super Citizen membership at time of renewal. December AT PENN 2021 | University of Pennsylvania Almanac . They share some of the stories, photos and audio interviews on their website, Generation Pandemic. Its one thing to be friends or roommates, but then to be work partners is different. The Scroll comes first. If youve read The Secret History by Donna Tartt or watched Dead Poets Society, Id say its a bit like that. A PPA spokesperson said general counsel Dennis Weldon will assume the responsibilities of executive director while the board announced plans to launch a national search for Petris replacement. The archive explores how the pandemic has . The Penn students who humanized the pandemic | Morning Newsletter 68 overall), Hendon Hooker, quarterback, Detroit Lions. We read it and realized that is exactly what we wanted to emulate, Strickberger says. [She laughs]. Or, if you ask Max Strickberger (C '22) and Alan Jinich (C '22), the word of a generation.