grad student

The former Columbia University grad student was arrested by plainclothes ICE agents in March over his participation in pro-Palestine protests at the university.

Williamson plays Noah, a grad student feeling adrift in his life in sunny Palm Springs.

“Grants pay not only for experiments, they pay for training. They pay for grad students. We’re training the next generation of scientists.”

Told in an elliptical style with novelistic chapters, the story follows Agnes, a literature grad student turned junior professor at a small liberal arts college who is struggling to move forward from a traumatic event.

Listening to Sitman and Adler-Bell is like wandering the basement stacks of a library with two grad students jazzed on coffee and shuffling index cards.