- With decades of professional direction and personal hosting by a Skidmore professor, the New York State Summer Writers Institute fosters an intimate, intensive writing workshop on campus each July.
- Skidmore's faculty in 2014 published books on topics ranging from the circus to the European Union, from classic television to children's literature and the Christian right, along with three new collections of poetry.
- "To Forget Venice" ranges over several stages of a life that features adolescent heartbreak and betrayal, marriage and children, friendship and loss, according to the University of Chicago Press.
- The acclaimed author was no stranger to Skidmore or to readers of "Salmagundi" magazine.
- It's the silver anniversary year of the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore. A rich selection of readings by acclaimed authors highlights the month. (Left: Jamaica Kincaid, who reads on July 28. Emma Dodge Hanson photo)