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National Notable Novels

American anti-war expats in Sweden in the 1970s, as portrayed in Elliot Krieger's new novel

There were many in the American Anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s who, in fact, did not stay in their owncountry and continued their fight...
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Persia Walker's "Harlem Redux" examines the lives of the African-American circa 1920

African-Americans generally command a high-profile in American life, but many African-Americans areoften trappedby the specific roles that a mass...
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Art and the loss that comes with it: Carl Hancock Rux's "Asphalt"

There's no question that New York City is often seen as the center of the artistic and literary world, and whether or not one agrees with this or...
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Literature 101: Who are some of the famous authors from Albany?

Many readers have been asking lately, who are some of the big time authors that have emerged or who at one time took up residence in Albany? Well,...
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In William Kennedy's "Roscoe", leaving public life is much harder than entering it

No writer is more single-handedly responsible forputting the small, communal city of Albany, New York on the map than author William Kennedy. The...
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Albany Public Library Lecture discusses recent historical novel about Frank Lloyd Wright's mistress

Patricia McGeown, President and CEO of the Upper Hudson Valley chapter of Planned Parenthood, presented a lecture on a recently published...
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