NYS Writers Institute Director Don Faulkner is interviewed about Mario Cuomo's legacy on Time Warner Cable News:
“It's clearly one of his legacies. He gave us the power to do these things he gave the state this whole opportunity to have access to all these writers,” said Faulkner. “And as we've expanded our archive, it'll bring in more and more people across the state. It's a vast resource as it's developed over the years and it's a testament to him.” -
See more at: http://albany.twcnews.com/content/news/798131/mario-cuomo-s-legacy-lives-on-for-state-organizations/#sthash.zrcw58EP.dpuf
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Mario Cuomo's Legacy Lives on at the Institute
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Bill Remembers Mario
In an appearance yesterday on NBC television affiliate WNYT 13, William Kennedy reflects on his friendship with Mario Cuomo who died on January 1st, 2015.
“He was the best orator we've had since FDR and Martin Luther King,” said Kennedy.
More: http://wnyt.com/article/stories/s3665498.shtml
Picture: Cuomo signs legislation creating the New York State Writers Institute in 1984. William Kennedy stands behind him, flanked by State Senator Tarky Lombardi (left) and Assemblyman William Passannante (right).
Friday, January 2, 2015
Mario Cuomo (1932-2015)
The New York State Writers Institute mourns the passing of Mario Cuomo, former New York Governor and a very dear friend of the Institute, who signed into law the legislation that created our organization in 1984.
Cuomo came to the Institute to celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2009, his first public appearance in Albany since leaving the Governor's mansion in 1994. On that occasion, he shared the stage at Page Hall with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (pictured here).
More about his visit here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/cuomo_goodwin09.html
The New York Times obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/nyregion/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-and-liberal-beacon-dies-at-82.html?_r=0http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/nyregion/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-and-liberal-beacon-dies-at-82.html?_r=0
More photos from the 25th Anniversary here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/celebrate25.pdf
Thursday, December 18, 2014
NY Times Book Critics' Top Ten Lists of 2014
They include Country Girl by Edna O'Brien, The Innovators by Walter Isaacson, Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart, The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, Lila by Marilynne Robinson, and All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu.
Picture: Edna O'Brien. Read More......
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
NY Times "100 Notable Books of 2014"
Visitors to the New York State Writers Institute whose books appear among the newly released "100 Notable Books of 2014" of the New York Times include:
Dinaw Mengestu, Rivka Galchen (who is in the office as we speak, but as a spouse), Lorrie Moore, Siri Hustvedt, Institute Fellow Lydia Davis, Joseph O'Neill (also here in the office at the moment), Louise Gluck, Akhil Sharma, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, Marilynne Robinson, Francine Prose, Colm Toibin, Susan Minot, James McPherson, Diane Ackerman, Gary Shteyngart and Elizabeth Kolbert.
Complete list here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2014.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Picture: Rivka Galchen.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
50 Writers You Need to See Read Live
The hip and influential webzine Flavorwire posted a list yesterday of "50 Writers You Need to See Read Live." Not to sound smug or anything, but 20 of them have appeared at the New York State Writers Institute (although we have a very unfair advantage in that 2 of them are part of our "family").
One them of course is our own Bill Kennedy, NYSWI Founder and Executive Director. Another is Elisa Albert, who lives in Albany, and is married to NYSWI Writing Fellow Ed Schwarzschild.
The rest are regular NYS Summer Writers Institute visitor Paul Harding, as well as Gay Talese, Claire Messud, Colson Whitehead, Gary Shteyngart, Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Shalom Auslander, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Sigrid Nunez, Sherman Alexie, Isabel Wilkerson, Charles Simic, Karen Russell, Chang-Rae Lee, James Salter, and Jonathan Ames.
Picture: Mary Gaitskill.
Full list here: http://flavorwire.com/487668/50-writers-you-need-to-see-read-live/view-all Read More......
Monday, November 17, 2014
Richard Norton Smith, C-SPAN's "in-house historian"
Richard Norton Smith, who visits us on Thursday, 11/20, talks to the TU's Paul Grondahl about what it was like to wrestle with writing a monumental biography of Nelson Rockefeller for 14 years:
"His long slog on Rockefeller was less a case of writer's block and more of information overload, as he kept uncovering fresh material and boxes of Rocky's previously sealed archives were made available to Smith. Stressed to the max about the ballooning biography, Smith suffered two heart attacks on Nov. 30, 2010. 'I can't remember four or five days. Luckily, a neighbor got concerned and came to my apartment,' he recalled. 'He got me to the hospital right away, and they discovered I'd had a heart attack and there was a blood clot in my heart. I had another heart attack the next day.'"
More in the Times Union: http://www.timesunion.com/living/article/A-Rocky-story-5891118.php
More about the upcoming events with Smith: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/smith_richard_norton14.html Read More......
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