Akhil Sharma (who visits tomorrow) in a Salon interview this past Sunday:
You’ve said that you want this book to be “useful.” Useful how?
Because the subject matter of this book is so important to me – illness, children in difficulty, the Indian immigrant community – I care a great deal about being able to provide comfort to people who are in a similar situation to the one that I and my family were in.
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Monday, April 21, 2014
"I don't want to be called an immigrant novelist" -Akhil Sharma
Friday, April 18, 2014
Akhil Sharma in the NY Times Book Review
Here's a review of Akhil Sharma's new novel, Family Life from the front page of the New York Times Book Review.
“Where is Ajay? What was the point of having raised him?” an elderly woman grumbles to her husband about their adult son in the opening pages of Akhil Sharma’s semi-autobiographical new novel, “Family Life.” This book, deeply unnerving and gorgeously tender at its core, charts the young life of Ajay Mishra as he struggles to grow within a family shattered by loss and disoriented by a recent move from India to America. “Family Life” is equally the story of Ajay’s parents, whose response to grief renders them unable to find the space in which to cherish and raise him.
More in the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/books/review/akhil-sharmas-family-life.html?_r=0
Sharma visits the Writers Institute this coming Tuesday, April 22nd:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sharma_akhil14.html Read More......
Monday, April 15, 2013
A Novelist and a Mathematician
Manil Suri, mathematician and novelist who visits Albany this Friday, is interviewed in the Times Union.
Q: When did you start to write? And did your math colleagues think you were crazy?
A: It began as a hobby, once I started teaching in 1983. I looked around me at all my colleagues busy doing math and nothing else, and decided I needed another dimension in my life. So I started writing — purely as a hobby — maybe a story or so every year. I kept it a secret. I wanted to be taken seriously as a mathematician, get tenure. I even drove all the way to Washington, D.C., to attend writing groups so nobody would know what I was doing.
Read more of Elizabeth Floyd Mair's interview here: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Math-figures-into-The-City-of-Devi-4427739.php
Read more about Suri's visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/suri_manil13.html
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Criminal Justice Scholar to Moderate Film Discussion
A faculty member at the College of Saint Rose and alumna of the UAlbany School of Criminal Justice doctoral program, Professor Lane is a multiple year honoree in America’s Who’s Who Teachers of Excellence. She teaches courses in Criminal Justice, Behavior & Law, Forensic Psychology, and Forensic Science.
HOMELAND: FOUR PORTRAITS OF NATIVE ACTION
February 15 (Friday)Film screening — 7:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus
Directed by Roberta Grossman
(United States, 2006, 88 minutes, color)
An artful and moving example of documentary filmmaking, HOMELAND follows the stories of Native American activists fighting to protect their lands against corporate exploitation and environmental destruction. Variety called the film, “Beautifully crafted...,” and said “Roberta Grossman skillfully intersperses vastly varied archival clips with quietly impassioned testimonials by tribal leaders and stunning lensing showcasing both the natural wonders and the man-made degradation of the landscape.”
More on the film series: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/cfs.html
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Homeland Film Tomorrow: "Visually Stunning"
"Beautifully crafted... Roberta Grossman skillfully intersperses vastly varied archival clips with quietly impassioned testimonials by tribal leaders and stunning lensing showcasing both the natural wonders and the manmade degradation of the landscape... Homeland merits a wider audience than provided by scattershot PBS airings... At a time when 30 years of environmental protection laws are being rapidly dismantled, Homeland militantly proposes America's First Peoples as the vangaurd of resistence." -- Variety
"Visually stunning... [Homeland] is a perfect blend of visuals, words, musical background, and thought-provoking issues related not only to Native Americans but to the environmental crisis facing America. " -- School Library Journal
"The story of a U.S. tragedy -- multinational companies doing their deadly work in Native peoples' backyards -- and of the brave few who stand up to combat it." -- The Utne Reader Read More......
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Crazy Brave Review
"Readers familiar with Joy Harjo's poetry, or, better, who have experienced her live performances, will recognize a familiar cadence and overarching mythic quality in the voice she creates for her newest work, Crazy Brave. In a memoir steeped in her Mvskoke (also known as Muscogee) worldview, Harjo relates narratives of abuse, persistence and reclamation that tap into universal human emotions. Harjo's text resonates for and with readers, whether longtime fans or not; as she asserts, 'A story matrix connects all of us.'"
Read more: http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/161501475.html?vi_adid=W
More about the Writers Institute events: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/harjo_joy12.html
You are invited to attend a free catered reception with Harjo, sponsored by SUNY Press, after the evening event at approximately 9:30 p.m.
Joy Harjo, Native American poet and musician
November 1 (Thursday)
Seminar — 4:15 p.m., Campus Center Room 375, Uptown Campus
Reading — 8:00 p.m., Campus Center Room 375, Uptown Campus Read More......
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
NPR Interview with Joy Harjo
"I [had] felt like I had lost my voice, too. And sometimes, to find it ... what I've learned is it needs to be lost for a while. And when it wants to be found, you'll find it.
"But I would say is that you just put yourself in the place of poetry. You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.
"And, you know, it's like looking for love. You can't look for love, or it will run away from you. But, you know, don't look for it. Don't look for it. Just go where it is and appreciate it, and, you know, it will find you."
Read more or listen to the interview: http://www.npr.org/2012/07/09/156501436/joy-harjos-crazy-brave-path-to-finding-her-voice
Harjo visits UAlbany tomorrow, 4:15 and 8pm, Campus Center 375, with a catered reception by SUNY Press to follow the evening event. Read More......
Poet Joy Harjo talks about her tattoo...
What do I have on my hand and what does
it mean?
The tattoo on my hand is a tattoo. It’s not henna. The style is from the Marquesas Islands. The Marquesas are north of Tahiti.
Roonui, a Tahitian artist, did the
tattoo freehand in Moorea, Tahiti. He is now living in Canada. http://www.roonui-tattoo.com/ It took two-and-a-half hours. (And yes,
it hurt.)
I’d seen the tattoo there on my hand for
sometime. The tattoo represents assistance for my work. I use my hands for
music, writing, and everything else I do. The tattoo reminds me of the levels of
assistance. I am also carrying a beautiful piece of art with me wherever I
go.
Roonui says: "Polynesian tattooing is
not a simple exercise in aesthetics. Polynesian carve into their body the
symbols of their actions (past present or future), their promises, their
games."
The part inside my wrist, close to my
heart, resembles ancestral designs of my tribal people.
More about Harjo's events: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/harjo_joy12.html
The 8PM reading will be followed by a free catered reception and book signing with Harjo sponsored by SUNY Press (at approximately 9:30 p.m.). The reception is in association with the annual John G. Neihardt lecture celebrating Native American literature.
Read More......
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Joy Harjo coming Thursday
Joy Harjo, Native American poet and musician
November 1 (Thursday)
Seminar — 4:15 p.m., Campus Center Room 375, Uptown Campus
Reading — 8:00 p.m., Campus Center Room 375, Uptown Campus
Joy Harjo is an award-winning poet and musician of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. The author of seven collections of poetry, she was praised by the late Adrienne Rich for her “breathtaking complex witness and world-remaking language.” Her poetry collections include How We Became Human (2002), The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (1994), and In Mad Love and War (1990), which received the American Book Award and the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. Her new book is the memoir, Crazy Brave (2012), about her journey from a troubled childhood and teenage motherhood to her accomplishments in the arts.
Cosponsored by SUNY Press in conjunction with the annual John G. Neihardt Lecture
Read more: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/harjo_joy12.html
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