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Gabrielle Korn’s debut novel focuses on queer love amid climate disaster

Gabrielle Korn’s debut novel focuses on queer love amid climate disaster

Taking place in a not-so-distant future New York City ravaged by climate change, Gabrielle Korn’s recently-released debut novel “Yours for the Taking,” has been called “[a]t once a mesmerizing story of queer love, betrayal, and chosen family, and an unflinching indictment of white, corporate feminism,” by its publisher, Macmillan.

Department of Film Media Theater and students put on ‘Night of Scenes’ with students

Department of Film Media Theater and students put on ‘Night of Scenes’ with students

This past weekend, attendees of the Department of Film Media Theater’s “Night of Scenes” were treated to not one but four distinct narratives. Students put on four scenes from Dominican writer Juliany Taveras’ 2016 play “the anatomy of light,” one from Theresa Rebeck’s “Mauritius,” Jonathan Yukich’s “A Brief History of Weather” and David Ives’ “Sure Thing.”