Tom Junod, who visits on Thursday 9/10 and Friday 9/11, is profiled and interviewed
by Paul Grondahl in today’s Times Union.
Junod recalls his professors at UAlbany, including Fred
LeBrun, Eugene Mirabelli, Warren Roberts and Judith Barlow.
Tom Junod's jagged path from UAlbany to journalistic acclaim
By Paul Grondahl
Updated 6:44 am, Wednesday, September 9, 2015
The only journalism course that Tom Junod — one of the
nation's most acclaimed journalists as a two-time National Magazine Award winner
and 10-time finalist — ever took was Fred LeBrun's Journalism 101 course his
senior year at the University at Albany.
His jagged career path offers an object lesson in
perseverance, lucky breaks, the drive of an underdog — and the gift of great
teachers who didn't try to fit his square peg of creativity into a round hole.
More in the Times Union: http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Tom-Junod-s-jagged-path-from-UAlbany-to-6492017.php
More about Tom Junod’s events tomorrow and Friday: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/junod_tom15.html
WRITER FOR ESQUIRE, UALBANY GRADUATE AND 11-TIME FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD, TO DISCUSS HIS WORK
Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, 4:15 p.m. Seminar, Standish Room, Science Library Uptown Campus
Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Reading in observance of 9/11, New York State Museum, Huxley Theater, Downtown Albany
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Tom Junod, journalist, UAlbany graduate, winner of two National Magazine Awards, and the record holder for nominations for that award (11 times), will present a seminar on magazine writing on Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 4:15 p.m. in the Standish Room, Science Library, on the UAlbany uptown campus, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany. The following day, Friday, September 11, 2015 at 7:00 p.m., in observance of 9/11 at the New York State Museum’s Huxley Theatre in downtown Albany, Junod will read from and discuss his famous article, “The Falling Man,” a 2003 meditation on AP photographer Richard Drew’s iconic image of a 9/11 victim plunging to his death. Free and open to the public, the events are cosponsored by the University at Albany, New York State Museum, and New York State Writers Institute.
Tom Junod, journalist, UAlbany graduate, winner of two National Magazine Awards, and the record holder for nominations for that award (11 times), will present a seminar on magazine writing on Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 4:15 p.m. in the Standish Room, Science Library, on the UAlbany uptown campus, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany. The following day, Friday, September 11, 2015 at 7:00 p.m., in observance of 9/11 at the New York State Museum’s Huxley Theatre in downtown Albany, Junod will read from and discuss his famous article, “The Falling Man,” a 2003 meditation on AP photographer Richard Drew’s iconic image of a 9/11 victim plunging to his death. Free and open to the public, the events are cosponsored by the University at Albany, New York State Museum, and New York State Writers Institute.
For more information contact the Writers Institute at
518-442-5620 or online at www.albany.edu/writers-inst
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