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New York State Summer Writers Institute
The New York State Summer Writers Institute offers credit and non-credit courses in fiction, non-fiction prose, and poetry writing with a distinguished faculty led by Robert Boyers. Call (518) 580-5599 for more information. Sponsored in part by the New York State Writers Institute, State University of New York at Albany
SUMMER PUBLIC READING LIST 2012
All Readings are at 8:00 p.m. in Davis Audiorium, Palamountain Hall
Free and open to the public
JULY 2
Non-Fiction and Fiction Reading
Phillip Lopate (author, Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays; Waterfront) and Elizabeth Benedict (novelist, The Practice of Deceit; Almost)
JULY 3
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Louise Gluck (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry) and Caryl Phillips (novelist, A Distant Shore; Dancing in the Dark; In the Falling Snow)
JULY 4
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Allan Gurganus (author, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All; White People) and Campbell McGrath (poet, MacArthur Award, Seven Notebooks; In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys; American Noise)
JULY 5
Fiction Reading
Paul Auster (author, Winter Journal; Invisible; The Brooklyn Follies) and Siri Hustvedt (novelist, The Summer Without Men; What I Loved)
JULY 6
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Joanna Scott (author, Follow Me; Liberation; Arrogance) and James Longenbach (critic and poet, The Art of the Poetic Line; The Iron Key: Poems )
JULY 9
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Frank Bidart (poet, Star Dust; Watching the Spring Festival; Desire) and Claire Messud (author, The Emperor's Children; The Hunters)
JULY 10
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Jorie Graham (poet, Place; Sea Change; Dream of the Unified Field) and Victoria Redel (author, The Border of Truth; Lover Boy)
JULY 11
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Rosanna Warren (author, Ghost in a Red Hat) and Margot Livesey (author, Eva Moves The Furniture, The Flight of Gemma Hardy )
JULY 12
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Russell Banks (novelist, Lost Memory of Skin, The Reserve; The Darling) and Chase Twichell (poet, Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been; Dog Language)
JULY 13
Fiction Reading
Joyce Carol Oates (National Book Award, Mudwoman; A Widow’s Story; them; We Were The Mulvaneys)
JULY 16
Poetry and Non-Fiction Reading
Mark Strand (Former Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize, Blizzard of One; Almost Invisible;) and Honor Moore (author, Red Shoes: Poems; The Bishop’s Daughter: A Memoir)
JULY 17
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Charles Simic (Former Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize, The World Doesn’t End; Master of Disguises) and Danzy Senna (author, From Caucasia, with Love; You are Free: Stories)
JULY 18
Fiction Reading
William Kennedy (Pulitzer Prize, Ironweed; Changó’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes)
JULY 19
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Ann Beattie (fiction writer, The New Yorker Stories; Walks With Men; Love Always) and Peg Boyers (poet, Honey with Tobacco, Hard Bread)
JULY 20
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Amy Hempel (fictionist, The Dog of the Marriage) and Richard Howard (poet, Pulitzer Prize, Talking Cures; Inner Voices)
JULY 23
Non-Fiction and Fiction Reading
Darin Strauss (author, More Than It Hurts You; Half A Life ) and Binnie Kirshenbaum (novelist, An Almost Perfect Moment; The Scenic Route)
JULY 24
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Jamaica Kincaid (author, Mr. Potter; A Small Place; Lucy) and Henri Cole (poet, Touch; Pierce the Skin; Middle Earth)
JULY 25
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Mary Gaitskill (author, Veronica; Bad Behavior; Don’t Cry) and Tom Healy (What the Right Hand Knows)
JULY 26
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Rick Moody (fictionist, Demonology; The Four Figures of Death; The Ice Storm) and Francine Prose (novelist, My New American Life; Touch; A Changed Man)
JULY 27
Special Panel Discussion: Writers on the Presidential Election
Katha Pollitt (columnist, The Nation), James Miller (Democracy is in the Streets), and Robert Boyers (editor, SALMAGUNDI)
