Caryl Phillips
July 4: Novelist
Elizabeth Benedict
(
The Practice of Deceit
) and poet-
fictionist
April Bernard
(
Romanticism
)
July 5: Memoirist
Phillip Lopate
(
Getting Personal
) and poet
Campbell
McGrath
(
American Noise
)
July 6: Novelist
Francine Prose
(
Lovers
at the Chameleon Club: Paris 1932
) and
novelist-memoirist
Howard Norman
(
Next Life Might Be Kinder, The Bird
Artist
)
July 7: Novelist
Paul Auster
(
Brooklyn
Follies, Moon Palace
) and novelist-
memoirist
Siri Hustvedt
(
The Shaking
Woman, What I Loved
)
July 8: Memoirist
Margo Jefferson
(
Negroland
) and Novelist
Joanna Scott
(
Follow Me, Make Believe
)
July 9: Comedy Night with
Phillip
Lopate, Elizabeth Benedict
& others
July 11: Novelist
Mary Gaitskill
(
The
Mare, Veronica
) and Poet
Carolyn
Forché
(
The Country Between Us, Blue
Hour, The Angel of History
)
July 12: Novelist-Memoirist
Mary
Gordon
(
The Shadow Man, Pearl
) and
Poet
Frank Bidart
(
Desire, Metaphysical
Dog
)
July 13: Memoirist-Poet
Nick Flynn
(
Another Night in Suck City
) and
Novelist-Poet
Victoria Redel
(
Loverboy,
The Border of Truth
)
July 14: Poet
Louise Glück
(
The Wild
Iris, Meadowlands
) and Novelist
Claire
Messud
(
The Woman Upstairs
)
July 15: Novelist
Joyce Carol Oates
(
Zombie, Blonde, Carthage
)
July 18: Fictionist
Amy Hempel
(
The
Dog of the Marriage
) and Novelist
Adam Braver
(
Misfit, 1963, Crows Over
The Wheatfield
)
July 19: Novelist
Garth Greenwell
(
What Belongs To You
) and Poet
Peg
Boyers
(
To Forget Venice, Hard Bread,
Honey with Tobacco
)
July 20: Novelist
Rick Moody
(
Hotels of
North America
) and Poet
Charles Simic
(
The Lunatic: Poems, Hotel Insomnia
)
July 21: Novelist
Russell Banks
(
The
Darling, Affliction, Lost Memory of
Skin
) and Poet
Chase Twichell
(
Dog
Language
)
July 22: Poet
Robert Pinsky
(
The Want
Bone, Gulf Music
)
July 23: Comedy Night with
Robert
Pinsky, Steve Stern
and
Binnie
Kirshenbaum
July 25: Novelist
William Kennedy
(
Ironweed, Roscoe
) and Novelist
Cristina Garcia
(
Dreaming in Cuban,
King of Cuba, The Lady Matador’s Hotel
)
July 26: Novelist
Joseph O’Neill
(
Netherland
) and Novelist
Rivka
Galchen
(
Atmospheric Disturbances,
American Innovations
)
July 27: Presidential Panel:
Katha Pollitt
(
The Nation Magazine
),
Tom Healy
(
Fulbright Foundation Board
),
James
Miller
(author
Democracy Is in the
Streets
and other books)
July 28: Novelist
Jamaica Kincaid
(
See
Now Then, Autobiography of My
Mother, Lucy
) and
Poet Henri Cole
(
Nothing to Declare, Touch
)
July 29: Two Pulitzer-Prize Winners:
Novelist
Paul Harding
(
Tinkers, Enon
)
and Poet
Carl Dennis
(
Practical Gods,
Unknown Friends, Ranking the Wishes
)
New York State Summer Writers Institute
The New York State Summer Writers Institute offers courses in fiction, non-fiction
prose, and poetry writing with a distinguished faculty led by Robert Boyers.
Call 518.580.5593 for more information. Sponsored, in part, by the New York
State Writers Institute, State University of New York at Albany.
All Readings are held in Davis Auditorium and begin at 8 pm unless otherwise noted.
April Bernard and Nick Flynn
Henri Cole and Rick Moody
Jamaica Kincaid
Photos by Jim McLaughlin
