Two NYS Writers Institute Writing Fellows are featured prominently in the Spring 2015 issue of The Paris Review.
James Lasdun has a 70-page novella, Feathered Glory:
http://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6362/feathered-glory-james-lasdun
Lydia Davis is interviewed:
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6366/art-of-fiction-no-227-lydia-davis
Other featured authors who have appeared as part of the Institute's Visiting Writers Series include Major Jackson, Charles Simic and Stephen Dunn.
And, incidentally, the Capital Region's own Bernie Conners, former publisher of The Paris Review, has a new memoir, Cruising with Kate: A Parvenu in Xanadu (2015). Read Paul Grondahl's interview in the Times Union: http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Paul-Grondahl-Bernard-Conners-memoir-recalls-a-6156657.php
Thursday, March 26, 2015
The Paris Review: James Lasdun, Lydia Davis
Friday, March 21, 2014
Walter Kirn Interviews Himself in the NY Times
Walter Kirn, who visits the Institute on Tuesday, 3/25, presents a comic and self-deprecating, but incisive profile of himself in Wednesday's New York Times.
"Mr. Kirn’s prickliness and flashes of arrogance seem to disguise a basic insecurity that may explain why he longed for the approval of a con man posing as a blue blood."
More in the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/books/walter-kirn-interviews-himself-on-blood-will-out.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
More about Kirn's visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/kirn_walter14.html
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Elizabeth Floyd Mair interviews E. L. Doctorow in the Times Union
Q: Some critics might say that the focus of this novel is smaller and more confined than some of your earlier works, since it doesn't feature a large cast of characters but is just the voice of one man talking about his life. Yet to me it seemed vast anyway, because of the unexpected twists that Andrew's stories take. What's your sense of whether or not the story is smaller?
A: I would say rather that this novel is not formulaic fiction — it is not a linear narrative that has at its context a recognizable social reality — the world of business, say, or of domestic life, or of war. It is large on its own terms, as is an installation, or a cubist canvas that turns everything inside out.
More: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Seeing-through-another-s-eyes-5252956.php
Doctorow comes to UAlbany tomorrow, Thursday, 2/27:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/vws.html#doctorow
Monday, April 1, 2013
Longer Chinua Achebe Interview on YouTube
available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKDupjm2fU8&feature=youtu.be
The giant of world literature and Hudson Valley resident passed away on March 21, 2013. Read More......