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THE CENTER FOR THE LITERARY ARTS IN NEW YORK STATE New York State Summer Writers Institute SUMMER PROGRAM AT SKIDMORE Public Reading Schedule NY State Summer Writers Institute: 2018 Public Readings All Monday – Friday evening readings are held in Gannett Auditorium and begin at 8:00 PM. The panel discussions held on Saturdays, July 7th and 21st are held in Davis Auditorium. The events are sponsored, in part, by the New York State Writers Institute, State University of New York at Albany. July 2: Novelist Joseph O’ Neill (Netherland) & Novelist-Memoirist Rivka Galchen (Little Labors, American Innovations) July 3: Poet Carol Muske-Dukes (Blue Rose, Sparrow) and Novelist Joanna Scott (Follow Me, Make Belie, Arrogance) July 4: Memoirist Phillip Lopate (Getting Personal) and poet Campbell McGrath (American Noise) July 5: Fictionist Nicholas Delbanco (Lastingness, The Years) and poet James Longenbach (Earthling) July 6: Poet Charles Simic (Pulitzer Prize: The Lunatic: Poems, Hotel Insomnia) and Novel ist Elizabeth Benedict (The Practice of Deceit) July 7, 7 pm: Panel Discussion in Davis Auditorium: “Can Art Be ‘Offensive’?” with Novelist Elizabeth Benedict, Poet Tom Healy & Poet-Novelist April Bernard July 9: Poet Louise Gluck (Pulitzer Prize: The Wild Iris, Meadowlands) & Novelist-memoirist Danzy Senna (Caucasia, Where Did You Sleep Last Night) July 10: Novelist Russell Banks (The Darling, Affliction, The Lost Memory of Skin) and Poet Chase Twichell (Dog Language) July 11: Novelist Claire Messud (The Woman Upstairs, The Emperor’s Children) and Poet Rosanna Warren (Ghost in a Red Hat) July 12: Novelist Mary Gaitskill (The Mare, Veronica) and Poet Vijay Seshadri (Pulitzer Prize, 3 Sections) July 13: Fictionist Adam Haslett (Imagine Me Gone) and novelist-memoirist Amy Wallen (When We Were Ghouls: A Memoir) July 16: Frank Bidart (National Book Award: Desire, Metaphysical Dog) and Novelist Garth Greenwell (What Belongs to You) July 17: Novelist Mary Gaitskill (The Mare, Veronica) and Poet Peg Boyers (To Forget Venice, Hard Bread, Honey With Tobacco) July 18: Novelist Rick Moody (The Ice Storm, Hotels of North America) and poet Carl Dennis (PULITZER PRIZE: Practical Gods, Unknown Friends, Ranking The Wishes) July 19: Novelist Paul Auster (Brooklyn Follies, Moon Palace) and novelist-memoirist Siri Hustvedt (The Shaking Woman, What I Loved) July 20: Poet Robert Pinsky (The Want Bone, Gulf Music) and Novelist Adam Braver (Misfit, 1963, Crows Over The Wheatfield) July 21, 7 pm: Panel Discussion in Davis Auditorium: “Fears & Night Thoughts” with Memoirist Nick Flynn, Novelist Madeline Miller & Novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum July 23: Novelist William Kennedy (Ironweed, Roscoe) and Non-Fictionist Jim Miller (author Democracy Is In The Streets, Flowers in the Dustbin) July 24: Novelist Ann Beattie (Walks With Men, The New Yorker Stories) and Novelist Jonathan Dee (The Locals, The Privileges, A Thousand Pardons) July 25: Novelist Joyce Carol Oates (Zombie, Blonde, Carthage), Gannett Auditorium July 26: Novelist-Memoirist Jamaica Kincaid (See Now Then, Autobiography Of My Mother, Lucy) and Poet Henri Cole (Nothing To Declare, Touch) July 27: Novelist-memoirist Howard Norman (Next Life Might Be Kinder, The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard) and Novelist-Poet Victoria Redel (Loverboy, The Border Of Truth)
Under the joint auspices of the Office of the Dean of Special Programs
at Skidmore College and the New
York State Writers Institute. Director, Robert Boyers For additional information contact:
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