Lydia Davis Will Teach Here Again in the Fall of 2013!

Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize, will teach a free Community
Writers Workshop at the NYS Writers Institute in the fall of 2013! The workshop is open to the general public on a competitive basis.

Previous winners of the prize have included Philip Roth, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe and Ismail Kadare.

Here's some video of Lydia from a 2010 talk at the Institute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7rPWVS8MT0

More on Lydia and her prize:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/davis_lydia13.html

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Jorgen Randers in New Film

Jorgen Randers, who visits UAlbany tonight, stars in a new documentary about the impending collapse of the Earth's ability to sustain human life, The Last Call.

View a trailer of the film:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzUKVqD-xKs

Visit the film's website:  http://www.lastcallthefilm.org/en/synopsis

Find out more about Randers' visit today to UAlbany:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/randers_jorgen13.html

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