Rescheduled: Grayce Burian Book Signing 4/1

Book Signing
Grayce Susan Burian, Actor, author and theatre professor 
April 1st (Tuesday)
Booking signing — 3:00 p.m., Science Library Room 340
UAlbany Uptown Campus

Grayce Susan Burian, actor, author, theatre professor, and key figure of the UAlbany and Capital Region theater arts communities, will sign copies of her new book, From Jerry to Jarka:  A Breezy Memoir of a Long, Peripatetic Marriage, about her 54-year marriage to Jarka Burian, the primary Western scholar of Czech theatre and long-time Theatre Professor at UAlbany. Among other things, the book recounts their many exciting sojourns in Czechoslovakia at various times over a period of several decades, their friendships with Vaclav Havel and other dissidents, and their first-hand experiences of political turmoil, invasion, unrest, revolution and social change.

Note: This event has been rescheduled from March 12^th because of weather.

For more information contact the Writers Institute at 442-5620.

More about Grayce Burian:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/burian_grayce14.html

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Douglas Bauer on Marriage, Aging, Life, Death

Douglas Bauer, who visits the Writers Institute tomorrow, 10/29, to present his new book, What Happens Next, Matters of Life and Death, is interviewed by Elizabeth Floyd Mair in the Times Union.

Q: What was the most surprising thing that you learned in the course of writing this book?

A: That I could write it. Until now, all my nonfiction has been about other people. Or it's concerned itself with literary matters. And I struggled in this book to find a balance between what seemed necessary to reveal about myself and my great reluctance to reveal anything, however important to the narrative.

More in the TU:  http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Focus-on-marriage-aging-4923207.php

More about Bauer's visit:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/bauer_douglas13.html

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Grayce Burian-- Love, Europe, Stage

Bill Buell contributes an article to the Schenectady Gazette discussing Grayce Burian's book about her 54 years of marriage to the late theatre scholar Jarka Burian.

"Writing it was a kind of healing, and I'm glad I did it and I'm glad I could do it," said Burian. "Just to have if for my family was important. Originally I had no intention of publishing it."

Grayce Burian is a retired theatre scholar herself, and a key figure in the Capital Region's theatre community. Through the Jarka & Grayce Susan Burian Endowment, she supports the annual Burian Lecture Series on the Theatre, cosponsored by the NYS Writers Institute and UAlbany Department of Theatre.

Picture: Grayce with filmmaker John Sayles at the Writers Institute, February 2012.

Full article here:
http://olivedev.dailygazette.net/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMailGifMSIE&Type=text/html&Path=SCH/2013/10/13&ID=Ar04000&Locale=&ChunkNum=0

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Poems About Divorce-- Sharon Olds

 

Former New York State Poet under our sponsorship, and 2013 Pulitzer winner for poetry, Sharon Olds talks to The Guardian about Stag's Leap, her new collection of poems about her experience of going through a divorce.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2013/jan/17/sharon-olds-life-art-video

The poems in the book, which also received the UK's T. S. Eliot prize, were written 15 years earlier. Olds delayed publishing them to protect the sensitivities of her children.

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Anatomy of a Short Story

The New Yorker's Lee Ellis interviews Paul La Farge (who visits Albany on Thursday) about his short story "Another Life," and what makes it tick.

We posted a link last week to "Another Life," a story of marital infidelity that appeared in the New Yorker in July. Link here.

La Farge:  I knew roughly what was going to happen in “Another Life” before I began, but I didn’t know that it would be divided into two parts, and I didn’t see it until I had written the sentence, “I want another life,” which is what the husband thinks just before he goes off on his adventure.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/this-week-in-fiction-paul-la-farge.html#ixzz27OYZ1ZpC

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