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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In honor of Nicholas Delbanco’s retirement from the University of Michigan, Fiction Writers Review is dedicating this week’s content to a celebration of Delbanco’s influential career as both a writer and a teacher. On December 4th, a symposium entitled “The Janus-Faced Habit: The Art of Teaching and the Teaching of Art” took place in Ann […]
In honor of Nicholas Delbanco’s retirement from the University of Michigan, Fiction Writers Review is dedicating this week’s content to a celebration of Delbanco’s influential career as both a writer and a teacher. On December 4th, a symposium entitled “The Janus-Faced Habit: The Art of Teaching and the Teaching of Art” took place in Ann […]
In honor of Nicholas Delbanco’s retirement from the University of Michigan, Fiction Writers Review is dedicating this week’s content to a celebration of Delbanco’s influential career as both a writer and a teacher. On December 4th, a symposium entitled “The Janus-Faced Habit: The Art of Teaching and the Teaching of Art” took place in Ann […]
In honor of Nicholas Delbanco’s retirement from the University of Michigan, Fiction Writers Review is dedicating this week’s content to a celebration of Delbanco’s influential career as both a writer and a teacher. On December 4th, a symposium entitled “The Janus-Faced Habit: The Art of Teaching and the Teaching of Art” took place in Ann […]
Nicholas Delbanco’s Art of Youth studies talent cut short Studying the output of Stephen Crane, Dora Carrington and George Gershwin, Nicholas Delbanco looks for commonalities among creative types who create great works at young ages, then die early. Book review by David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic November 27, 2013 | 1:30 p.m. […]
The Art of Youth Introduction My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light. —Edna St. Vincent Millay Searching for sugar man is a documentary about the singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez. I saw it weeks ago, and it has stayed […]
