Will Allison

Will Allison

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CHRISTOPHER PURDY INTERVIEWS WILL ALLSION

Will Allison’s new novel “What You Have Left” has been lauded by the New York Times and is a Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers choice and a Border’s Original Voices choice for 2007. His short stories have been published in Cincinnati Review, Interview and Glimmer Train. Born in South Carolina, Will Allison holds the MFA degree from the Ohio State University’s Creative Writing program, where his teachers included Lee K. Abbott and Michelle Herman. He is at work on a new novel for the Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. See www.willallison.com

Praise for “What You Have Left”:
“The moving account tells of a South Carolina family struggling to survive despite a mother’s death, a father’s abandonment and a grandfather’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease—and a host of risky behaviors by others left behind.”
–Columbus Dispatch, 6/26/07

“Tender, smart and efficiently told…Raw boned, heartfelt prose.”
–Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 3/1/07

“A remarkable, understated novel…Allison has a precocious knack for detail…and for plain, old fashioned storytelling.”
–Entertainment Weekly (an EW pick) 6/8/07

Nathan Gunn interview

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CHRISTOPHER PURDY INTERVIEWS NATHAN GUNN

Baritone Nathan Gunn’s new CD, ‘Just Before Sunrise,’ is a collection
of standards by Jimmy Van Heusen, Tom Waits, and Billy Joel, combined with new songs by Ben Moore,Gene Scheer, and Sting. It’s a winner, neither full classical nor pop, nor crossover, but a new expansion of American song.

Nathan Gunn has been a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera since 1995; he sang Papageno in Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ in the Met’s first HD cinema presentations beamed into movie theaters worldwide. He returns to the Met in New York and in the movie theatres next season for Mercutio in Gounod’s ‘Romeo et Juliette.’

‘Just Before Sunrise’ is published by SONY Classical and hits the
stores on August 7th. We spoke on the phone from his hotel in New York on August 2, 2007.

–Christopher Purdy
‘Thanks’ as always to Eric French