New York State Summer Writers Institute PUBLIC EVENTS 2014
June 30-July 25, 2014/ Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Contact Robert Boyers, Director ([email protected])
*Monday-Friday Readings open to the public, 8 PM, Davis Auditorium,
Palamountain Hall: Receptions follow in “The Spa”
**ALSO two Saturday SPECIAL EVENTS*
--Monday June 30: Reading 8 PM: Poet CAMPBELL MCGRATH (“American
Noise)”& novelist ELIZABETH BENEDICT (“The Practice of Deceit”)
--Tuesday July 1: Reading 8 PM: novelist FRANCINE PROSE (“Lovers at the
Chameleon Club: Paris 1932”) and novelist-memoirist NICHOLAS DELBANCO
(“What Remains,” “Lastingness”)
-- Wednesday July 2: Reading 8 PM: poet FRANK BIDART (“Metaphysical Dog”)
and novelist-short story writer JIM SHEPARD (“Like You’d Understand Anyway”)
--Thursday July 3:Reading 8 PM: poet CHASE TWICHELL (“Dog Language”) and
novelist RUSSELL BANKS (“Lost Memory of Skin”)
--Friday July 4: Reading 8 PM: novelist-memoirist HOWARD NORMAN(“Next Life
Might Be Kinder”) and poet JANE SHORE (“That Said: New & Selected Poems”)
--*SPECIAL EVENT* Saturday July 5: 7.30 PM: EMERSON AUDITORIUM: A
Conversation with PHILLIP LOPATE on “The Art of Memoir”
--Monday July 7: Reading 8 PM: novelist CRISTINA GARCIA (“Dreaming In
Cuban,” “Aguero Sisters”) & poet ROSANNA WARREN (“Ghost in a Red Hat”)
--Tuesday July 8: Reading 8 PM: memoirist PHILLIP LOPATE (“Getting Personal”)
and novelist-poet VICTORIA REDEL (“Loverboy”)
--Wednesday July 9: Reading 8 PM: novelist JOANNA SCOTT (“Follow Me”) and
poet JAMES LONGENBACH (“The Iron Key”)
--Thursday July 10: Reading 8 PM: poet LOUISE GLUCK (“Poems 1962-2012”) and
novelist CARYL PHILLIPS (“A Distant Shore”)
--Friday July 11: Reading 8 PM: novelist JOYCE CAROL OATES (“Blonde,”
“Zombie,” “We Were The Mulvaneys,” “them,” “Carthage”)
--Monday July 14: Reading 8 PM: fictionist AMY HEMPEL (“The Dog Of The
Marriage”) and poet CAROLYN FORCHE (“The Country Between Us”)
--Tuesday July 15: Reading 8 PM: novelist MARILYNNE ROBINSON (“Gilead” and
“Home”) and poet PEG BOYERS (“Hard Bread” & “Honey With Tobacco”)
--Wednesday July 16: Reading 8 PM: novelist DANZY SENNA (“Caucasia”) and
memoirist HONOR MOORE (“The Bishop’s Daughter”)
--Thursday July 17: 8 PM: a premiere performance of a new opera based on the
novel ROSCOE by WILLIAM KENNEDY (author of IRONWEED) in Zankel Music
Center – Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall
--Friday July 18: Reading 8 PM by former Poet-Laureate of the United States
ROBERT PINSKY (“The Figured Wheel,” “Gulf Music”)
--*SPECIAL EVENT* Saturday July 19: Film Screenings at 4 PM and 6.30 PM:
EMERSON AUD: “Seduced & Abandoned,” directed by Pietro Germi (starring
Stefania Sandrelli)
*****and then: 8.30 PM, Emerson Aud.: “A Conversation with ROBERT PINSKY on
SEDUCED & ABANDONED”
--Monday July 21: Reading 8 PM: poet MARK STRAND (“Almost Invisible”)) &
novelist BINNIE KIRSHENBAUM (“Hester In The Ruins”))
--Tuesday July 22: Reading 8 PM: poet CHARLES SIMIC (“The World Doesn’t End”)
and novelist ADAM BRAVER (“Misfit”)
--Wednesday July 23: Reading 8 PM: novelist RICK MOODY (“The Four Fingers of
Death,” “Demonology”) & poet TOM HEALY (“What The Right Hand Knows”)
--Thursday July 24, 8 PM: Reading: novelist/ memoirist JAMAICA KINCAID
(“Autobiography of my Mother,” “See Now Then: A Novel”) & poet HENRI COLE
(“Touch,” “Middle Earth,” “Blackbird & Wolf”)
--Friday July 25: Reading 8 PM: Two Pulitzer-Prize winners on CLOSING NIGHT
2014: novelist PAUL HARDING (“Tinkers,” “Enon”) and CARL DENNIS (“Practical
Gods,” “New & Selected Poems”)
**FINAL RECEPTION* at The Spa, Case College Center, 9.30, Friday July 25th.
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