A Bit More about Alice Lichtenstein’s Recent Work

Author and Hartwick professor Alice Lichtenstein will join us on Saturday, November 16th for our Local Author’s Panel (running from 1pm-3pm). For those wondering about ripped-from-the-headlines writing, Alice’s current work is influenced by an event that hit the region’s news several years ago. Perhaps you’ll remember it…

Here are some glowing endorsements for Alice’s most recent novel:

During the brilliant and explosive opening pages of Alice Lichtenstein’s The Crime of Being, bullets fly.  Thanks to one teenager’s violent and racist act, the minds and hearts of people in a small Upstate New York community are forever fractured and divided.  Alice Lichtenstein delves deep into the viewpoints of an astonishing range of characters, presenting the disparate voices of victim and perpetrator, and those who surround them.  It’s a feat of extraordinary writing, all mounting toward a terrifically tense final confrontation.  A tour de force of unsparing insight and empathy.

–Adrienne McDonnell, author of The Doctor and the Diva

 

“The Crime of Being” is a fast-paced,

urgent story of how we live now.

Alice Lichtenstein tells some hard truths with

poise, wisdom, and compassion.

–Hilma Wolitzer, The Doctor’s Daughter

 

Join us for this wonderful event and consider taking home one of the stunning books that will be available for sale!

Author Alice Lichtenstein is Coming to the 11/16 Author Panel!

We are very pleased to announce that author Alice Lichtenstein will be attending our Author Panel on Saturday November 16!

Alice Lichtenstein graduated from Brown University and received her MFA from Boston University where she was named the BU Fellow in Fiction. She has received a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Fiction and has twice been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony.

Her first novel, The Genius of the World (Zoland Books, 2000), a Booksense 76 selection in paperback fiction, received favorable reviews, most notably in The New York Times Book Review and on National Public Radio. Lost (Scribner, 2010) received rave reviews, including: The Boston Globe, The St.-Louis Dispatch, The Buffalo News and Good HousekeepingPeople Magazine touted Lost as a “Great Read”; Alan Cheuse, reviewing for NPR’s “All Things Considered,” called Lost,a novel that delivers much reading pleasure.”  Lost appeared in audio-book and e-book formats and was translated into Chinese among several other languages. In 2011, Lost was a long-list Finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

The Crime of Being, Alice’s third novel, is forthcoming from Upper Hand Press in November, 2019. Pre-publication reviews have called The Crime of Being, “a story for our divided times.”

In 2012, Lichtenstein received the Barbara Deming Memorial Grant Award for Fiction based on a submission from The Crime of Being.

Additionally, Lichtenstein’s short stories have appeared in several literary journals, including: Revision (Narrative Magazine Winter 2018 Story Finalist and “Story of the Week”); Dead Friends, Post Road (Winter, 2010) and White Ladies, Short Story (Spring, 2010). The above stories were nominated for Pushcart Prize Awards.

Alice lives in Oneonta, New York, where she teaches fiction-writing at Hartwick College, and in Surry, Maine.

The panel on the 16th will run from 1-3pm and will include a book sale and book signing, so you can do some holiday shopping that supports our local artists!

 

 

If you’d like to look at (or order) one (or all) of Alice’s books, here are the links for you to investigate!

The Genius of the World

Lost

The Crime of Being