“I’m a product of public education, government-backed student loans, and publicly funded institutions like the Gloversville Free Library. If you’ve lost faith in them, you’ve lost faith in basic democratic principles.”
--Richard Russo, Gloversville novelist, quoted in the New York Times in an article by Steven Greenhouse about a campaign to renovate the Gloversville Library, March 24, 2105
More about Richard Russo: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/moore_russo09.html
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
Writer Richard Russo on Public Funding for Education
Friday, September 5, 2014
Alison Lurie in National Geographic
Acclaimed novelist Alison Lurie, who opens our Fall 2014 Visiting Writers Series, is interviewed in the August 17 issue of National Geographic:
Acclaimed Novelist Alison Lurie Thinks Buildings Say a Whole Lot About Us
Your house can tell others whether you’re happy or well organized or friendly—even what your politics are.
A critic once remarked that Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie writes so simply that a cat or a dog can understand her. It was meant as a compliment and taken as such. In her new book she turns her lucid gaze on a subject baffling to many of us: architecture.
In this candid interview she talks about what buildings tell us about their owners' aspirations and politics, why she built houses for fairies as a child, how she feels about being compared to Balzac and Jane Austen, and what her own home in upstate New York reveals about her.
More in National Geographic: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140817-alison-lurie-architecture-cornell-spoils-of-poynton-great-expectations-booktalk/
More about Alison Lurie's events in Albany: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/lurie_alison14.html
More about the Fall 2014 Visiting Writers Series: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/vws.html#lurie Read More......
Monday, August 5, 2013
"This Upstate Life" in Rensselaerville
Local authors will present their work at the annual Rensselaerville Festival of
Writers, August 15-18, 2013
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"This Upstate Life"
Local writers will read their own
work, poetry, fiction, personal essay, or cross-genre and experimental work
specifically rooted in the upstate New York region.
Tom Corrado -
Middleburgh Carol Graser - Galway
Anne Decker - Albany
Susan Jefts – Saratoga Springs
Sarah Giragosian - Albany Howard
J. Kogan Stephentown
Marea Gordett - Cohoes Marion Menna - Glenmont
John Worth Gordon - Albany Mary
Cuffe Perez - Galway
Dan Wilcox - Albany
Himanee Gupta-Carlson – Greenfield Center
For more info: www.festivalofwriters.org
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Fracking Panel at Festival of Writers in Rensselaerville
Other panelists are Stu Gruskin, former Deputy Commissioner of NYSDEC and Dr. Erik Kiviat, Executive Director of Hudsonia. Robert Moore, Executive Director of Environmental Advocates of New York, will moderate. More.
Full schedule of events: http://www.festivalofwriters.org/schedule/ Read More......
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