"Renowned Princeton writers join together to teach one class"

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<p>In her first semester at Princeton, freshman Megan Leahy had some of the biggest names in literature on the Princeton faculty as her instructors — acclaimed novelists Jeffrey Eugenides, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates and Edmund White, not to mention world-renowned poets Paul Muldoon and C.K. Williams. And that was just in one class.</p>

<p>Leahy is taking "Princeton University Reads," a new course in the English department that offers students the one-of-a-kind experience to hear some of the University's best-known poets and novelists talk about their work. The seven guest lecturers in the class, which is taught by English professor Michael Wood, have four Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, a PEN/Malamud Award and a Nobel Prize in Literature among them.</p>

<p>"The class is awesome," said Leahy. "It's a uniquely Princeton experience."</p>

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<p>wow, that's awesome! I'm reading Beloved right now - Morrison is a genius.</p>

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<p>Joyce Carol Oates...I worship her fiction. :/</p>

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<p>i am f-king jealous. that must be an incredibly intense class, i would feel so much pressure to perform.</p>

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<p>I took it fall semester. It's cool, and really low-key.</p>

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<p>Eugenides has got to be the coolest prof ever. What a mind blowing experience...I am very jealous.</p>

<p>peachykween, were you able to chat one on one with some of these authors?</p>

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<p>Now this beats any course I've heard or seen at Harvard and I'm a future microbiology/international relations major.</p>

<p>Man I want to go to Princeton so bad, but so do the other 25000+ kids who applied this year. Lol.</p>