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Center for the literary arts in New York State
NYS Writers Institute
Feb 4, 20214 min read
Q&A: David Herzberg, a "historian of drugs"
"...it’s inspiring to see what 'healthcare' can be in the hands of people attuned to both individuals’ wellbeing and social justice." --...
NYS Writers Institute
Jan 25, 20214 min read
"Rivers of Power" author Laurence C. Smith
In Chris Churchill's column in the Times Union last week -- Mr. Biden, tear down this highway! he writes of Interstate 787, the...
NYS Writers Institute
Oct 8, 20202 min read
Conversation with Robin DiAngelo: "White Fragility"
A featured event of The Time for Reckoning Symposium Robin DiAngelo in conversation with Alice Green Premieres 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11...
NYS Writers Institute
Sep 28, 20201 min read
Todd Snyder, author of "Bundini: Don't Believe the Hype"
Paul Grondahl interviews professor and author Todd Snyder, whose new book Bundini: Don’t Believe The Hype, tells the story of Muhammad...
NYS Writers Institute
Aug 26, 20208 min read
Q&A with Wendy Roberts, a literary historian who made history
When Wendy Roberts published her new book in July, she accomplished a distinctive feat: Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American...
NYS Writers Institute
Aug 11, 20205 min read
"Plagues ’been killing my people in NYC for a long time" -- Dan Irizarry
Our friend Dan D. Irizarry was a featured commentator on this morning's Roundtable on WAMC Northeast Public Radio. During the morning...
NYS Writers Institute
Jul 24, 20204 min read
Traveling to Instagram: An essay by Judith Fetterley
A couple weeks ago, we posted Life Lessons from Gardening, a video chat with Judith Fetterley, who left academia after 30 years as a...
NYS Writers Institute
Jun 30, 20204 min read
A virtual visit with African American folklorist Daryl Cumber Dance
We made a virtual visit to Daryl Cumber Dance, a towering authority on African American folk culture and tradition, at her home in...
NYS Writers Institute
Jun 23, 20202 min read
Masking and gloving up for Social Justice
We checked in with Susan Burton, a leading crusader against mass incarceration who visited UAlbany as the keynote speaker of the School...
NYS Writers Institute
May 19, 20202 min read
Catching up with Diane Ackerman, author of "The Zookeeper's Wife"
We checked in with Diane Ackerman, poet and author who visited the University at Albany in March of 2017 in connection with the film...
NYS Writers Institute
May 13, 20202 min read
Q&A with Susan Pinker, psychologist, journalist, and author
Developmental psychologist, journalist, and bestselling author Susan Pinker is very busy these days providing advice to the public about...
NYS Writers Institute
May 12, 20206 min read
Q&A with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Pamela Newkirk
We caught up with our friend, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Pamela Newkirk. A former reporter for Albany’s Knickerbocker News...
NYS Writers Institute
May 6, 20201 min read
How are college students coping in a time of pandemic?
University at Albany Distinguished Professor Dr. Jeffrey Berman helps students express, discuss grief, trauma and loss in his English...
NYS Writers Institute
May 5, 20203 min read
Cheers for NYS Author Colson Whitehead on winning his second Pulitzer Prize
Author and three-time guest of the NYS Writers Institute makes history, becoming the first writer to win Pulitzers for back-to-back...
NYS Writers Institute
May 1, 20202 min read
"Living in the Long Emergency" interview with James Howard Kunstler
An #indiebookstoreboost post to support independent bookstores in the Capital Region during the time of coronavirus An...
NYS Writers Institute
Apr 30, 20202 min read
The economic impact of the pandemic on global corporations
Bruce Piasecki How is corporate America responding to the global COVID-19 outbreak and how are major multi-national corporations dealing...
NYS Writers Institute
Apr 10, 20202 min read
Q&A with T. C. Boyle: Book picks and tips on life during pandemic
We caught up with our friend T. C. Boyle, major American fiction writer and three-time visitor to the NYS Writers Institute, most...
NYS Writers Institute
Apr 8, 20202 min read
Talking Teddy with novelist Jerome Charyn
We were disappointed these COVID-19 protocols forced us to postpone the April 2 Writers Institute event with Jerome Charyn, author of...
NYS Writers Institute
Apr 6, 20202 min read
Catching up with sportswriter Rick Reilly
We emailed Rick Reilly to find out what he's up to since he visited us in February. One of America’s preeminent sportswriters, Rick was...
NYS Writers Institute
Apr 2, 20203 min read
Sister Helen Prejean, author of "Dead Man Walking," checks in from New Orleans
We asked Sister Helen Prejean for words of inspiration. She came back to us with incredible answers. Author of the international...
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