Jamaica Kincaid Reads Tonight

Jamaica Kincaids presents her new novel tonight in Saratoga.

Full schedule of readings here:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

Elizabeth Floyd Mair interviewed Kincaid about the novel, See Now Then, in Sunday's Times Union:

Q: The long sentences that are a trademark of your style — is that just the way that it first comes to you?

A: When I'm writing about the family in this book, for instance, I tend to condense all of the feelings of the ups and downs into one moment. I write out of that moment, and it seems to come in one sentence, or in one series of sentences that unfurl and refurl into themselves. The poet Derek Walcott once said to me that each of my sentences holds within it its own contradiction. When he said that, I was amazed, because it is true.

More:  http://www.timesunion.com/living/article/See-Now-Then-hits-close-to-home-4673216.php

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Jamaica Kincaid and Writers Institute in NYT

The New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore is mentioned in a New York Times profile of Jamaica Kincaid-- though not by name!

"When Ms. Kincaid read from the book last summer at a writers’ institute at Skidmore College, the mostly student audience peppered her with questions about 'whether the novel is a suitable vehicle for working through the personal this or that,' said Robert Boyers, the director of the institute."

Read more in the Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/books/jamaica-kincaid-isnt-writing-about-her-life-she-says.html?src=recg

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