Recent NYS Writers Institute Visiting Author Karen Russell's Swamplandia makes the NY Times Top Ten for 2011 as well as Janet Maslin's personal Top Ten. Other books on Maslin's list include former New York State Author Russell Banks's Lost Memory of Skin, and Walter Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs (Isaacson visited with a biography of Einstein in 2007).
Michiko Kakutani's personal list includes recent visitor Don Delillo, who has a new book of short stories, The Angel Esmerelda. Dwight Garner's picks include Townie: A Memoir by Andre Dubus III, and a book of essays, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, by former UAlbany Writer-in-Residence Geoff Dyer.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Top Ten Lists of 2011 in the Times
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
25th Anniversary Celebration Updates
The work of the Institute has been all-consuming of late, and to note that we haven't posted since early October is, well, an embarrassment, both of silences, and of riches. Sometimes it's wonderful to have so many things going on that you can't stop to whistle at them.
On November 16 we celebrated our 25th anniversary with a highlight film and remarks 
by Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York who signed the establishing legislation for the
formation of the NYSWI into law, and Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer/historian who has appeared at the Writers Institute six times since its inception.
Visits prior to that, by Richard
Russo, Lorrie Moore, Don DeLillo, Russell Banks, Henry Louis Gates, and others (celebrations of Rumi, and Jazz history included), will be chronicled in due course. Sometimes it's better to be living than to be blogging!
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