We're on C-SPAN 2's Book TV This Weekend

The Institute will be featured this weekend on C-SPAN 2, Book TV at 12PM, Saturday, December 8^th, and at 9AM Sunday, December 9^th. Included among the interviews with various authors are segments with Institute Executive Director William Kennedy, and with Institute Director Donald Faulkner.

Here is a link to the Book TV schedule:  http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx

And here is a link to C-SPAN’s Albany webpage:  http://www.c-span.org/LocalContent/Albany/

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Writers Institute on Jeopardy! and C-SPAN

Two notable television events for the New York State Writers Institute are coming up that may be of interest:

Our graduate assistant Josh Bartlett will appear on Jeopardy! with Alex Trebek on Thanksgiving Day, 7:30 p.m. on News10.

“The waiting, which began with the tryout in January, extended through the taping in August and then through all the months Joshua Bartlett had to smile and say nothing, is over: The University at Albany graduate student will finally appear Thursday on Jeopardy!”

Read more in the Times Union:  http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Local-contestant-on-Jeopardy-4057184.php

A special program on the City of Albany, in which the Writers Institute, William Kennedy, Donald Faulkner and The Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza are prominently featured, will air on C-SPAN2's Book TV and C-SPAN3's American History TV on the weekend of Dec. 8 and 9. The program is part of C-SPAN’s LCV (Local Content Vehicle) 2012 Cities Tour of all of America’s state capitals.

"The idea is to look at a city's rich history and unique literary life," said producer Debbie Lamb, whose three-member crew will fan out across the city all week. "We wanted to get outside Washington and highlight medium-sized cities that a national audience normally wouldn't get to see."

Read more in the Times Union:  http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/The-good-the-bad-the-colorful-4035365.php

Here’s a link to the C-SPAN Local Content page:  http://www.c-span.org/LocalContent/

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Writers Institute on C-SPAN This Weekend

C-SPAN came to Albany to film our evening event with Russian journalist Masha Gessen on Thursday, March 8th.

The show will be broadcast over the weekend on C-SPAN 2/BookTV.

Saturday evening, March 17th at 7pm (ET)

Sunday morning, March 18th at 4am (ET)

We don't expect too many of you to be watching at 4am on Sunday morning, but please tell us about it if you do!

Link to the C-SPAN website.

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