Robert Stone, celebrated author of Dog Soldiers who died last week, was featured on a 1996 episode of "The Writer," a former collaboration between PBS station WMHT and the New York State Writers Institute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1is4nXRD-M&feature=youtu.be
More about Stone's visit to the Writers Institute and UAlbany:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/stone.html
Showing posts with label novelist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label novelist. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Robert Stone on "The Writer" in 1996
Monday, January 12, 2015
Robert Stone (1937-2015), Author of Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone, who visited the New York State Writers Institute and UAlbany in October 1996, passed away at the age of 77 on January 10th.
Stone was the author of the classic Vietnam War novel, Dog Soldiers, winner of the National Book Award.
AP obituary: http://www.juno-news.com/news/read/category/Top%20News/article/the_associated_press-novelist_robert_stone_known_for_dog_soldiers_dies-ap
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/nyregion/robert-stone-novelist-inspired-by-war-dies-at-77-.html?ref=obituaries&_r=1
Institute Director Don Faulkner said in 1996:
"Through works such as Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise, novels which are as politically and culturally astute as they are brilliant, to his bitter social satires Children of Light (about Hollywood) and Outerbridge Reach (about midlife crises, middle class values, and sailing), Stone proves his bond of fealty to the writers he respects the most: Dostoevski and Conrad, Hemingway, Dos Passos, and Graham Greene. A reader will find all of the big themes established by each in Stone's work, but they will be found in unique scale, uniquely Stone. He's an American master, of storytelling, of the novel, and of insight into our culture."
More: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/olv1n1.html#stone
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
The Mathematics of Writing a Novel
Bestselling novelist Manil Suri will deliver a powerpoint presentation about the mathematical thinking behind his new novel, The City of Devi (2013), Friday, 8PM, UAlbany Campus Center.
From a Mumbai-based reviewer:
"The highlight of the programme was Suri’s power point presentation (ppt) on his novel. It was definitely the most entertaining ppt I’ve ever sat through in my life, besides being the first one by an author on his novel."
"Suri had included sound effects, cut-outs of faces to represent his characters, and used visual elements such as a maze and a pomegranate to illustrate the various aspects of his novel. The most fascinating dimension of his writing process was the mingling of the literary and the mathematical."
"He had actually plotted the various narrative arcs, only to end up with ‘mathematical proof’ that The City of Devi could not be written. Just as he was ready to give up, his agent/editor wanted to take a look at whatever he’d written till then. He decided to polish the draft one last time before sending it to her. And that’s when he found a way to approach his material afresh, and eventually managed to ‘balance’ the fictional equation."
Read more in DNA India: http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/1792748/report-third-degree-manil-suri-and-the-mystery-of-the-closed-door-book-launch
More on Suri's visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/suri_manil13.html
Monday, April 15, 2013
A Novelist and a Mathematician
Manil Suri, mathematician and novelist who visits Albany this Friday, is interviewed in the Times Union.
Q: When did you start to write? And did your math colleagues think you were crazy?
A: It began as a hobby, once I started teaching in 1983. I looked around me at all my colleagues busy doing math and nothing else, and decided I needed another dimension in my life. So I started writing — purely as a hobby — maybe a story or so every year. I kept it a secret. I wanted to be taken seriously as a mathematician, get tenure. I even drove all the way to Washington, D.C., to attend writing groups so nobody would know what I was doing.
Read more of Elizabeth Floyd Mair's interview here: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Math-figures-into-The-City-of-Devi-4427739.php
Read more about Suri's visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/suri_manil13.html
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