Last week's guest, National Book Award winner Julia Glass [pictured here], contributes a praise blurb to this Friday's guest's new story collection, The Other Language:
“I loved every single one of these affecting, suspenseful, and sublimely crafted stories. It’s clear that Francesca Marciano is worldly as well as wise, yet what she’s surprisingly insightful about is the hazardous nature of worldliness itself. Because our modern lives are so mobile, our ways of communicating so refined, we risk coming to believe that the borders defining class, culture, and gender are somehow more permeable. Think again, she tells us in these nine cautionary tales—the best new collection I’ve read in years.” —Julia Glass
Francesca Marciano visits tomorrow:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/marciano_francesca14.html
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Julia Glass on Francesca Marciano
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Reading others’ works energizes Julia Glass
"I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way. Really good reading accelerates and feeds the writing for me...."
Julia Glass, National Book Award Winner who visits us on Thursday April 3 is profiled this month in the Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2014/03/22/new-england-writers-work-julia-glass/3Al0XhLxpMM4ggBfXNtoIN/story.html
More about her upcoming visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/glass_julia14.html Read More......
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Julia Glass Picks Favorite Children's Books
National Book Award winner Julia Glass, who visits us on Thursday, April 3rd, picks her favorite underrated children's books in Entertainment Weekly.
Here are two out of ten:
Life Story by Virginia Lee Burton: “For the precocious science nerd, page past the can-do life lesson of Burton’s Mike Mulligan to Life Story, a proscenium-stage drama that travels through time from the birth of the sun to human existence the way it looked about fifty years ago.”
Uncle Elephant by Arnold Lobel: (Pictured) “Frog and Toad can laugh at the Caldecotts; they’ve been on Broadway. Equally enchanting among Arnold Lobel’s characters, however, is Uncle Elephant, a perfect novel in miniature.”
More in EW: http://shelf-life.ew.com/2014/03/17/julia-glass-criminally-underrated-books/
More about Julia's upcoming visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/glass_julia14.html