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From the Times Union: Kennedy deconstructs 'Legs' for brain-injured readers

NYS Writers Institute

Dec 13, 20225 min read

From the Times Union: Kennedy deconstructs 'Legs' for brain-injured readers

Thank you to the Albany Times Union for giving us permission to reprint this story, originally published in the paper on December 7. “I...

William Kennedy’s “Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game”– a Zoom discussion

NYS Writers Institute

Feb 22, 20212 min read

William Kennedy’s “Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game”– a Zoom discussion

“Without a sense of place, you don’t, as a writer, have very much. Place is all those forces of a given society impinging upon and...

A conversation with Writers Institute founder and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy

NYS Writers Institute

May 27, 20201 min read

A conversation with Writers Institute founder and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Kennedy

Over the course of one hour, ten minutes and a couple glasses of wine, Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl enjoyed a leisurely...