Photo of the Day: Nicole Krauss

In case you missed her wonderful events, you can see Nicole Krauss on the UAlbany website.

Among other things, she spoke about her preference to write from the perspectives of old men, asserting that she can more easily "be herself," and talk about the things that concern and frighten her, if she assumes a persona that does not resemble who she is (ie: a young woman or young mother).

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Novelist Nicole Krauss Visits Today

Read the Nicole Krauss interview in today’s Times Union, or listen to Tuesday’s interview with Joe Donahue on WAMC’s “The Roundtable.”

Better still, meet her in person today:

September 22 (Thursday)
Seminar — 4:15 p.m., Assembly Hall, Campus Center, free and open to the public
Reading — 8:00 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, free and open to the public

Nicole Krauss, prize-winning novelist, is the author most recently of Great House (2010), a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. The novel is composed of interlinked tales about a massive writing desk and its various owners as they cope with tragedies and upheavals. The NPR reviewer called it “Masterful… a brilliantly orchestrated, mesmerizing whole that explores memory, solitude and an aching sense of loss and longing.” Krauss’s previous novels include the New York Times bestseller, The History of Love (2005), and Man Walks into a Room (2002), a finalist for the L. A. Times First Fiction Prize

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