Nino Ricci talks about “Setting as Character” at New York’s Center for Fiction as part of Craftwork, the Center’s series of talks by some of today’s most exciting writers on the nuts and bolts of creating great fiction. Presented in partnership with One Story.

From verdant jungles to frozen mountaintops to isolated prairies, settings in fiction can be more than just evocative, they can become characters in their own right. Nino Ricci will draw on his own use of the Galapagos in his award winning novel The Origin of Species, and show how his real life trip to Darwin’s islands became central to the novel’s vision.

Thursday, 3 October 2013
7 PM
The Center for Fiction • 17 E. 47th St. • New York • 212.755.6710

Nino Ricci, currently the Pathy Visiting Professor at Princeton, in conversation with veteran interviewer and broadcast journalist Therese Keane.

Part of the Friends of the Princeton Public Library Fall 2013 Series.

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Enjoy wine and light dinner with the Friends at 6:30 pm. Conversations begin at 7:30 pm. Event details and ticket sales now available at: princetonlibrary.org/friends/conversations

Princeton Public Library | Sands Library Building | 65 Witherspoon Street | Princeton | NJ | 08542

Nino Ricci is the Pathy Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies at Princeton University for Fall 2013. His course “Nationalism and Internationalism in the North American Novel” will look at literature’s complicity in the formation of national and cultural identity.

Hailed as one of America’s “Top Ten Literary Gatherings” by USA Today, Aspen Summer Words 2013, June 16-21, is a six-day retreat that supports writers in developing their craft by providing a winning combination of inspiration, skills, community and opportunity. From author readings to behind-the-book panel discussions, it also offers readers a chance to explore the craft of writing and celebrate the literary arts. 2013 faculty includes: Kathleen Anderson, Tom Barbash, Laura Fraser, Paul Harding, Pam Houston, Scott Lasser, David Lipsky, David St. John and Nino Ricci.

 

In They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels, Kevin Brown examines how Nikos Kazantzakis, Anthony Burgess, Norman Mailer, José Saramago, and Nino Ricci portray each of the major figures from the gospel stories against the backdrop of biblical and legendary lore.

Kevin Brown is an Associate Professor at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. They Love to Tell the Story is available from Kennesaw State University Press.

Bread, Honey & Fire by Nooshin Salari is a moving story of family and loss set against the backdrop of Iranian history. Salari’s characters go straight to the heart, caught up in forces that move them relentlessly forward even while they keep them always circling back to the past.

Born in Tabriz, Iran, Nooshin Salari moved to Canada in 1992. Her first collection of stories, The End of the Apple Tree, was published by Movarid Press in Tehran and was nominated for a number of literary prizes.

Bread, Honey & Fire is available at Amazon.ca.