Leading World War II historian and Guilderland resident Joseph Persico has a new book, Roosevelt's Centurions (2013), about the war-time President's relationships with his various commanders and generals.
Persico is also the author of the words that are engraved for posterity on the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D. C.: "Here we mark the price of freedom."
Paul Grondahl of the Times Union has an interview with Persico about the new book: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Revelations-about-Roosevelt-4585140.php
Persico, who ghost-wrote Colin Powell's My American Journey, last visited the Institute in 2004: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/persicojoseph.html
Friday, June 7, 2013
WWII Historian Joe Persico Publishes New Book
2 Nobel Prize-winners Discuss Origins of Life at UAlbany
Jack Szostak from Harvard University and Ada Yonath from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, will speak on June 12 at 8 p.m. in Lecture Center 18.
The lectures are open to the public!
Szostak is the co-editor of the book, The Origins of Life (2010).
The 18th Conversation is sponsored by the University’s departments of Chemistry and Biological Sciences and the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which has funded the Conversation since 1981.
For more information, email Dr.Ramaswamy Sarma at rhs07@albany.edu. Read More......
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Kennedy Novel to Become an Opera
"William Kennedy finds it fitting that his novel Roscoe, a fictional reconstitution of Albany's legendary Democratic political machine, is going to be turned into an opera by local composer Evan Mack."
"'I think Roscoe would approve because he led a grand, operatic life,' Kennedy said of the title character, Roscoe Conway, the machine's fixer and bagman who wants to quit politics after 26 years of carrying out its chicanery."
"The novel is set in Albany on V-J Day, 1945. The New Yorker praised it for being 'thick with crime, passion and backroom banter.' The novel was published in 2002 and reached the New York Times bestseller list."
Read Paul Grondahl's article in th Times Union: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Kennedy-novel-to-become-an-opera-4580309.php#ixzz2VSxVbCpw
Monday, June 3, 2013
Gene Mirabelli Wins Top Indie Fiction Prize
82-year-old Eugene Mirabelli, Professor Emeritus at UAlbany who presented his newest novel at the Writers Institute on February 26, 2013, has won the Literary Fiction Gold Medal in the 2013 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book awards.
This year the number one spot in the literary fiction category was a tie, and Eugene Mirabelli’s novel, Renato the Painter, shares top honors with Ned Bachus’s City of Brotherly Love.
The Awards program was created to highlight the year’s most distinguished books from independent publishers. Award winners are chosen by librarians and booksellers who are on the front lines, working everyday with patrons and customers. Some 125 books competed for the literary fiction Gold Medal. These books are examples of independent publishing at its finest.
More about Delmar resident Gene Mirabelli: http://mirabelli.net/
More about last February's event: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/mirabelli_hood13.html
Friday, May 24, 2013
Short Is Big for Local Writer
Paul Grondahl writes about Lydia Davis in the Times Union, with statements from Writers Institute
director Don Faulkner, and fellow UAlbany faculty member Lynne Tillman:
"She is a unique fiction writer who writes very short stories that are highly reflective, kind of ironic and sometimes comical. They play with the very concept of what storytelling is," said Donald Faulkner, director of the New York State Writers Institute at UAlbany.
"She is an excellent editor, great teacher and sympathetic reader who has helped a lot of young writers," Faulkner said. "She's not a prima donna on any level."
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Short-is-big-for-local-writer-4544778.php#ixzz2UDyIRcwD
The Short, Short Stories of Lydia Davis
The New York Times blog discusses the shortness of Lydia Davis's short stories following the announcement of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize:
http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/the-short-story-of-lydia-daviss-man-booker-prize/
Lydia will teach another multiple-week Community Writers Workshop in Fall 2013 (free and open to the public on a competitive basis).
More about her here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/davis_lydia13.html
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Lydia Davis Will Teach Here Again in the Fall of 2013!
Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, will teach a free Community
Writers Workshop at the NYS Writers Institute in the fall of 2013! The workshop is open to the general public on a competitive basis.
Previous winners of the prize have included Philip Roth, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe and Ismail Kadare.
Here's some video of Lydia from a 2010 talk at the Institute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7rPWVS8MT0
More on Lydia and her prize: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/davis_lydia13.html
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