The New Yorker asked its critics to pick the best 3 or 4 books they read this year (not necessarily new books). Part one of the list appeared December 10th.
Among the books by past visitors to the Writers Institute who appear on the various lists so far are Seeing Things by the late Seamus Heaney (pictured here), Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart, Stay, Illusion by Lucie Brock-Broido, Chasing Utopia by Nikki Giovanni, My Education by Susan Choi and A Permanent Member of the Family by Russell Banks.
Article in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/12/best-books-of-2013-part-one.html
Showing posts with label Russell Banks. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
New Yorker's Best Books of 2013
Friday, September 7, 2012
Russell Banks at the Adirondack Center
“Destined to be a canonical novel of its time... it delivers another of Banks’s wrenching, panoramic visions of American moral life, and this one very particular to the early 21st century... Banks, whose great works resonate with such heart and soul, brings his full narrative powers to bear.” (Janet Maslin, New York Times ) Read More......
Monday, December 5, 2011
Top Ten Lists of 2011 in the Times
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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