Bestselling horror novelist Peter Straub will interact with audiences via Skype this coming Thursday, September 20th.
Straub will share the stage (on a large screen) with two of his friends at the literary magazine Conjunctions -- editor and murder mystery author Bradford Morrow, and MacArthur Fellowship-winning poet Ann Lauterbach (who will appear live).
Elizabeth Floyd Mair of the Times Union profiled Straub this past Sunday:
Q: You have written two novels with Stephen King. How does that work? How do you actually write them together? Write alternating chapters? And how does it compare to writing novels on your own?
A: If you must have a collaborator in writing fiction, Stephen King is pretty much your ideal partner. I recommend him, like, highly. The dude is fast, strong, smart and, you know, sort of powerful and sort of humane at the same time, which cannot be said of many. And besides that, he's really funny. Flat-out funny, also grossout funny, a lot of the time.
More in the Times Union: http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-features/article/Horror-writing-his-happy-place-6511583.php
More about the upcoming event: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/conjunctions15.html
Monday, September 21, 2015
What is it like to collaborate with Stephen King?
Friday, July 12, 2013
On Horror: Stephen King reviews Joyce Carol Oates
Stephen King reviewed The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates (who reads tonight in Saratoga) this past May in the New York Times Book Review:
“Joyce Carol Oates has written what may be the world’s first postmodern Gothic novel: E. L. Doctorow’s ‘Ragtime’ set in Dracula’s castle. It’s dense, challenging, problematic, horrifying, funny, prolix and full of crazy people. You should read it. I wish I could tell you more.”
More: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/books/review/the-accursed-by-joyce-carol-oates.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Full schedule of free readings: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Stephen King on Lauren Groff
"I was sorry to see this rich and wonderful novel come to an end, and there is no higher success than that."
—STEPHEN KING on Groff's 2008 surprise bestseller, The Monsters of Templeton.
Lauren Groff visits Tuesday, March 27th to talk about her new novel, Arcadia.
4:15PM Assembly Hall, Campus Center, Uptown Campus
8PM Assembly Hall, Campus Center, Uptown Campus