News from the New Hampshire Authors' Series
The 2nd year of The New Hampshire Authors’ Series from the Dimond Library at the University of New Hampshire kicked off successfully on
Sunday, October 23rd when Rebecca Rule interviewed popular fiction writer, Jodi Picoult, in front of more than 285 faculty, staff, students,
parents, alumni and community members in the fifth floor reading room. Campus Journal ran a
story and photos of the event.
The New Hampshire Authors’ Series from the Dimond Library at the University of New Hampshire is sponsored by the Friends of the UNH Library
in collaboration with New Hampshire Public Television (NHPTV). Since its debut, just one year ago, the series has been a phenomenal success.
Three times per year, in the style of Bravo’s “Inside the Actors’ Studio,” Yankee humorist, book reviewer and author, Rebecca Rule, invites poets,
fiction and non-fiction writers, and journalists to share their insights and discoveries as they pursue their passion for writing. These one-on-one
interviews are conducted in front of a live audience, recorded by NHPTV, edited to a ˝ hour show for future broadcast on their program,
New Hampshire Outlook, and set up for video streaming to New Hampshire public schools. Each interview is followed by a question and
answer session, light refreshments, and a book signing. The programs are free and open to the public.
The programs are available via the NH Outlook website.
In the inaugural year of the series, participants included:
UNH Professor of English and award winning fiction writer, Alexander Parsons, is the next author to be interviewed on Sunday,
January 29, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.
ALEXANDER PARSONS earned degrees from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and New Mexico State University. His first novel,
Leaving
Disneyland, won the 2001 Associated Writing Programs Award for the Novel and was a finalist for the 2001 PEN West Award. He
has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Texas Literary Fellowship, and a Chesterfield Screenwriting
Fellowship. He teaches fiction writing at the University of New Hampshire.
“I can’t think of anything I’ve read that held me as spellbound as this superlative book.
In the Shadows of the Sun is vividly authentic
whether Parsons is describing the high mountain desert of New Mexico, the jungles of the Philippines, or the characters that traverse
these landscapes. The book is a riveting page-turner.”
– Thom Jones, author of The Pugilist at Rest
“This is a startlingly good novel. Alexander Parsons is a hugely talented writer and unlike anyone else of his generation.”
– Robert Boswell, author of Century’s Son
Poet, Charles Simic, is confirmed for April 2, 2006 and famed children’s author and illustrator, Tomie DePaola, has agreed to
be interviewed next October. For more information, or to register, please email
nh.authors@unh.edu. Or, call 603-862-3041.
