Thanks to Eli for posting about the upcoming Ford visit. I know one person has written in to say he expects to attend. I’m going to try to make it. Anyone else?
Author: Michael Janairo
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Ultimate lists; ultimate time-waster
This looks like fun, if you have the time: 125 writers are asked to name their top 10 books. It’s a Web site and a book, created by fellow National Book Critics Circle member J. Peder Zane, the Book Review Editor and Books Columnist for the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.
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The Big Read 2007
The Upper Hudson Library System will be taking part in the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read 2007 program, featuring Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”
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Events on Wednesday, Jan. 17
From Christopher D. Ringwald’s A DAY APART press release:
Ringwald is a journalist (and a former Times Union reporter) and educator based as a visiting scholar at The Sage Colleges in Albany, NY. A DAY APART has been hailed by Asma Gull Hassan as “a solemn, brilliant call to multi-faith commonalities and by Solomon Schimmel as “illuminating and inspiring.”
(Oxford University Press, Jan. 2007; Aly Mostel, publicist, 212 726-6111)
Roundtable with author and families portrayed in A Day Apart. Wednesday, January 17. 5:30 pm potluck, 7 pm discussion. Catholic Worker House, 45 Trinity Place, Albany, NY 12207. Contact Fred Boehrer, 518 292-1727.
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Zadie Smith on reading
“Reading, done properly, is every bit as tough as writing,” says one of my favorite novelists, Zadie Smith (“White Teeth” and “On Beauty”), in an extended essay in a recent Guardian out of London.Click “more” for more. It’s worth it.
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Join me in welcoming Eli Hetko
The Times Union books blog has a new contributor, Eli Hetko, a senior at Shaker High and an intern at the Times Union. Keep an eye out for his posts!
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What does Colson Whitehead eat?
I’ve always enjoyed Colson Whitehead’s novels — Intutionist, John Henry Days and Apex Hides the Hurt. But knowing what he ate for a week may be a little TMI, courtesy New York Magazine (though it does give a hint of what his next novel will be about — “a teenager who subsists on TV dinners and toils at an ice-cream parlor”)
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Happy Birthday, William Kennedy!
I’m sure the entire Capital Region and beyond will join me in saying happy birthday to William Kenndy — and many more! -
Story Prize announces its finalists
The annual Story Prize, awarded to a collection of short fiction, is in its third year and has recently announced its three finalists: Rick Bass, Mary Gordon (who has appeared at NYSWI) and George Saunders (who teaches at Syracuse).
