Interview with Elisa Albert

Interview with Elisa Albert

by | Jul 22, 2020 | Literary Legends, Literary Legends News

Get to know our 2020 Literary Legend, Elisa Albert, through her most recent interview! Albert is the author of three books: After Birth, The Book of Dahlia and How This Night Is Different. Most of her works focus around themes of “being an outsider, being a Jew...

Reading with Elisa Albert

by | Jul 17, 2020 | Announcement, Events, Literary Legends News, News

We at the Friends and Foundation of the Albany Public Library are proud to announce our first in-person, real life event in months! At this event, Elisa Albert will be reading from her “O Small-Bany!” cycle of essays at the Washington Park Soldiers’...

An Afternoon with Elisa Albert

by | Jun 5, 2020 | Literary Legends News, Uncategorized

For the last few years, we have hosted “An Evening with the Author” in the spring at Albany Public Library to highlight our newly chosen Literary Legends. They would come to meet each other, talk about their craft and connect with our donors and the community....

How to Write an Op-Ed by Marion Roach Smith

by | Aug 14, 2017 | Literary Legends News

Marion Roach Smith was selected as a 2016 Literary Legend by the Albany Public Library Foundation. The following is from her website: YOU SHOULD WRITE AN OP-ED. Yes, you. Why? Simply put, learning to write op-eds will transform your writing. While the ways in which it...