[Capdist-announce] John Sayles at UAlbany

[Knapp, John E]

16th Annual BURIAN LECTURE <http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/burian_lectures.html>
Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and
Co-sponsored by the NYS Writers Institute

February 27 (Monday)
Seminar - 4:15 p.m., Assembly Hall, Campus Center, Uptown Campus
Reading - 8:00 p.m., Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, Uptown Campus

John Sayles, Schenectady native, award-winning director and screenwriter, and one of America's most influential independent filmmakers, is the author of a new novel, A Moment in the Sun (2011)-a vast and brilliant American epic. Set in 1897, and covering many of the events of that pivotal year, the novel portrays the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in world affairs. NPR's Morning Edition said, "If you only read one book this summer, make it A Moment in the Sun." Sayles's previous novel, Union Dues (1977), a story of Boston in 1969, was a finalist for the National Book Award. His twenty award-winning films as writer and director include SILVER CITY (2004), MEN WITH GUNS (1997), LONE STAR (1996), EIGHT MEN OUT (1988), MATEWAN (1987), and RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN (1979).


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