The 30th Annual Lecture Series of the Louis and Mildred Resnick Institute,
SUNY, New Paltz
Director, Gerald Sorin
WEDNESDAYS AT 7:30 PM IN LECTURE CENTER 108
JEWISH-AMERICAN WRITERS AND WRITING
FROM 1980 TO 2018
September 5th JULIE ORRINGER,
“You'll Never Believe what Happened Next: How Family Stories Become a Novel."
Author of: The Invisible Bridge (novel 2010)
September 12th ADAM WILSON,
“What’s Important is Feeling”
Author of: Flatscreen (novel 2012)
September 19th YOM KIPPUR – NO LECTURE
September 26th LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ,
“Writing as Alchemy: Turning Straw into Gold”
Author of: Two-Part Inventions (novel 2010)
October 3rd ALICE MATTISON,
“Old Lefty Jews and their Complicated Children”
Author of: Conscience: A Novel (novel 2018)
October 10th BINNIE KIRSCHENBAUM,
“Jewish. But Not Really: The First Jewish Family in Bronxville”
Author of: The Scenic Route (novel 2009)
October 17th JOSHUA HENKIN,
“What’s A Nice Jewish Boy Doing Becoming a Novelist”
Author of: Matrimony (novel 2007)
October 24th SAM GRAHAM-FELSEN,
“Beyond Breaking Away: Living Jewishly in Contemporary America”
Author of: Green (novel 2018)
