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New York State Writers Institute

Justice Served

by Molly Eadie April 11, 2013

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  There is very little “Ken Burns effect” in his new documentary. His daughter, Sarah Burns, and her husband and co-producer, David McMahon, visited Page Hall at the University at Albany on Friday, April 5, where they ...

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Eugene Mirabelli and Ann Hood

by The Staff February 20, 2013

  The New York State Writers Institute continues a strong season of visiting writers with readings on Tuesday (Feb. 26) by Ann Hood, best-selling author of The Knitting Circle, and novelist, UAlbany emeritus professor and occasional ...

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George Saunders

by The Staff February 13, 2013

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  George Saunders is a rare literary specimen: The author and winner of a 2006 MacArthur Foundation fellowship is a “writer’s writer” who has successfully crossed over to the bestseller lists with his latest short-story collection, ...

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Kinyarwanda

by The Staff September 26, 2012

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  From April to July 1994, approximately 800,000 people were murdered in the East African nation of Rwanda. It was a genocide that shocked the world, both for the ferocity and speed of the killings and ...

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Tom Perrotta

by The Staff November 22, 2011

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Economic collapse and growing income inequality have contributed, according to many economists, to the decline of the middle class. Novelist Tom Perrotta, in tales like The Abstinence Teacher and his latest, The Leftovers, is one ...

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Linda Spalding and Marilynne Robinson

by The Staff July 6, 2011

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You don’t have to wait until next month to go to Saratoga Springs, because the New York State Writers Institute has settled in at Skidmore College for its annual summer sojourn featuring an army of ...

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Ben Katchor at the AIHA

by John Rodat April 13, 2011

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Cartoonist Ben Katchor’s newest book, The Cardboard Valise, begins with an episode in which a young man takes an inexpensive suitcase on a test run. He has packed the case with “a hundred pounds of ...