Akhil Sharma (who visits tomorrow) in a Salon interview this past Sunday:
You’ve said that you want this book to be “useful.” Useful how?
Because the subject matter of this book is so important to me – illness, children in difficulty, the Indian immigrant community – I care a great deal about being able to provide comfort to people who are in a similar situation to the one that I and my family were in.
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Monday, April 21, 2014
"I don't want to be called an immigrant novelist" -Akhil Sharma
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Nick Turse on Bill Moyers
Nick Turse, investigative journalist who comes to UAlbany today, was interviewed two weeks ago by Bill Moyers:
http://billmoyers.com/segment/nick-turse-describes-the-real-vietnam-war/
“American culture has never fully come to grips with Vietnam,” Turse tells Bill Moyers, referring to “hidden and forbidden histories that just haven’t been fully engaged.”
Come see Nick this afternoon in the UAlbany Performing Arts Center uptown:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/turse_nick14.html
He'll be talking about his newest book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (2013).
Friday, July 5, 2013
Joyce Carol Oates in a New Yorker video interview
"I'm not sure that I really have a personality...."
Joyce Carol Oates, who presents a free reading in Saratoga on July 12, gives an intimate video interview to the New Yorker on June 23, 2013.
All Readings are at 8:00 p.m. in Davis Audiorium, Palamountain Hall
Free and open to the public
Full schedule of free readings: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html
New Yorker interview: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/06/video-joyce-carol-oates.html
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Husband Interviews Wife in Daily Beast
Tony: You just said that she feared being “too much” and she’s a big figure in Her. If in your twin dynamic she was too much, were you too little? You make it clear that there were obviously competing psychologies going on from birth. Tell me more about that.
Christa: We never allowed ourselves to be the same. Identical twins are like that, always trying to carve out individuality. It was as if the world wasn’t a big enough place for us to be similar, and that forced us into trying to be opposite. We were fiercely competitive. It was simple at first when we were children. Cara liked vanilla ice cream, so I liked chocolate. I liked pink, so she liked blue. It really was that severe. Cara loved to sing, so I couldn’t sing—
Tony: She had a good point. I’ve heard you in the shower.
Christa: Ha. Ha.
More of the interview: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/07/without-her-twin-christa-parravani-s-debut-memoir.html
More about Christa's visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/parravani_christa13.html
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
NPR Interview with Joy Harjo
"I [had] felt like I had lost my voice, too. And sometimes, to find it ... what I've learned is it needs to be lost for a while. And when it wants to be found, you'll find it.
"But I would say is that you just put yourself in the place of poetry. You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.
"And, you know, it's like looking for love. You can't look for love, or it will run away from you. But, you know, don't look for it. Don't look for it. Just go where it is and appreciate it, and, you know, it will find you."
Read more or listen to the interview: http://www.npr.org/2012/07/09/156501436/joy-harjos-crazy-brave-path-to-finding-her-voice
Harjo visits UAlbany tomorrow, 4:15 and 8pm, Campus Center 375, with a catered reception by SUNY Press to follow the evening event. Read More......
Thursday, May 10, 2012
At home with Toni Morrison this week
The AP features an intimate chat with Toni Morrison that ran earlier this week:"It's Saturday and the 81-year-old Morrison is in a relaxed, informal mood, wearing a gray blouse and slacks and dark slippers, a purple bandanna tied over her gray corn rows, her laugh easy and husky with a pinch of "Can-you-believe-this?" You might mistake her for an ordinary neighbor ready for gardening until you see the pictures of her with James Baldwin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Elie Wiesel among others, or learn that the low, wooden table by her chair was a prop from the film version of Beloved, her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel." More.
The Nobel laureate was a UAlbany writer in residence at the Institute's inception and shared space in our offices in the mid-1980s. Read More......
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Not Appalled By Fairy Tales
"I just read this article in a UK paper about how appalled people are by Grimm's fairy tales, how they would never read them to their children, but I think they're marvelous. They create these worlds of horror that at the same time are containable. You get to the end of the story and it's almost always happily ever after. People can learn about a certain amount of pain, and it always ends fine in the story. They're amazing tools for children—I wouldn't give every story to a child because there are a lot of anti-Semitic and flat out bad stories, but I don't see the harm in a smart kid reading Grimm's tales."
Lauren Groff, who visits today, talks about finding inspiration in fairy tales for her new novel Acadia in Interview magazine.
Picture: An illustration by Arthur Rackham from a 1909 edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
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