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

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National Book Award Finalists

Finalists for the 2013 National Book Award have been announced.

Among them are five past visitors to the New York State Writers Institute: James McBride and George Saunders for Fiction; Jill Lepore for Nonfiction; and Frank Bidart and Lucie Brock-Broido for Poetry.

The awards ceremony is scheduled for November 20.

Full list in the New York Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/business/media/finalists-for-national-book-awards-announced.html?_r=0

Picture: Jill Lepore.

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