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THE YEARS

THE YEARS: A Novel by Nicholas Delbanco is published by Little A. http://www.amazon.com/Years-Nicholas-Delbanco/dp/1477827323/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422996494&sr=8-1&keywords=the+years+nicholas+delbanco&pebp=1422996495892&peasin=1477827323

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Letters of Note

Home Topics Columns Galleries In the News Letters Alumni Subscribe Keeping alumni and friends connected to U-M TOPICS: Arts & Culture, Talking About Books Men of letters BY NICHOLAS DELBANCO January 20, 2015. 18 Letters of note In late 2014 the University of Michigan Press published Dear Wizard: The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip […]

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From The Chronicle of Higher Education

  January 5, 2015 A Writing Professor’s Contribution: So Many Words, So Little Debt U. of Michigan Nicholas Delbanco Enlarge Image By Peter Monaghan As he retired as a professor of English at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor last month, Nicholas Delbanco was recognized not just as a novelist, nonfiction writer, and teacher, […]

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Review of The Years, The Boston Globe

BOOK REVIEW ‘The Years’ by Nicholas Delbanco E-MAIL Share via e-mail TO ADD A MESSAGE YOUR E-MAIL FACEBOOK TWITTER GOOGLE+ LINKEDIN 0COMMENTSPRINT Nicholas Delbanco has added a second half to an earlier novel about a rekindled romance. By Priscilla GilmanGLOBE CORRESPONDENT  JANUARY 14, 2015 In 2006, Nicholas Delbanco published “Spring and Fall,’’ a novel about […]

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Just Published

Dear Wizard The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White Edited by Nicholas DelbancoDear Wizard is a carefully selected, highly crafted gathering of letters from over three decades of correspondence between authors Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White. This correspondence, in part a contest to outdo one another with exotic and outlandish letterhead, ranges in […]

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  BOOKLIST   Advanced Review – Uncorrected Proof Issue: January 1, 2015 The Years. Delbanco, Nicholas (Author) Jan 2015. 418 p. New Harvest/Little A, paperback, $14.95. (9781477827321). First love, last love, and, in between, marriages, children, careers, estrangements, reconciliations, divorces, death: the stuff of life. The affair Hermia and Lawrence began when they were Boston […]

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Exhibit of the papers of Nicholas Delbanco

  Nicholas Delbanco: A Literary Life Through April 6 Exhibit 7th Floor, Hatcher Graduate Library Drawn from the papers of teacher and author Nicholas Delbanco, Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature and Director of the Avery and Jule Hopwood Awards Program at U-M, this exhibit spans decades and continents and illustrates […]

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Reading Schedule, 2015

Upcoming appearances:  Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, January 21-24 San Miguel Writers’ Conference, San Miguel, Mexico, February 11-15 University of Michigan, Harlan Hatcher Library, April 1 Indiana University, April 2

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“Don’t Be Afraid to Start Over” – Andrea Barrett’s appreciation in The American Scholar

Here’s an excerpt from Andrea Barrett’s appreciation of Nicholas Delbanco, published in The American Scholar: The best writing advice I ever got was extremely simple, initially devastating but actually incredibly kind, liberating, and utterly transformative. It came at Bread Loaf, the first writers’ conference I attended, where I went as a contributor the summer before […]

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Fiction Writers Review: Nina Buckless on “Departure”

Here’s Nina Buckless, writing in appreciation of Nicholas Delbanco’s short story “Departure”: If, as Aristotle says, “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies,” then it is through the love of philia, a fondness or an appreciation, that I can write of the love that I have for Nicholas Delbanco’s short story “Departure,” published […]

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