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This year, we are excited to announce a new fundraising initiative: the Marathon Reading Summer Research Fellowship. Your donation will support current scholars and encourage the next generation: four fellowships will fund two English PhD students and two undergraduate English majors at UCLA. Each of the four $2000 fellowships that you will help create will…

The UCLA English Department/Friends of English Marathon Reading is an annual event that brings together the department, the campus, and the wider Los Angeles community to celebrate great works of literature spoken aloud. Hundreds of volunteers take turns, relay-style, to recite an entire novel in a 24-hour stretch. The audience is free to join or…