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“Shengold’s memoir explores a reservoir of feelings. Accompanied by her elegant, unpretentious prose, the reader comes upon surprises: a bear, an eagle feather, a crimson forest. Filled to the brim with subtle revelations, of sun-washed illuminations but also the poignant history; a drowned town lies below the shimmering surface.
Book Release: Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days by Nina Shengold. Adjunct Instructor in English Nina Shengold spoke to Art in the Catskills about her new book, Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days.
Jun 15, 2020 · Excerpts - Nina Shengold. THE IDES OF EVERYTHING. My “walking and writing” year at the Ashokan started and ended on September 15. Reservoir Year was slated for publication by Syracuse University Press on May 15, 2020, extended to June 15, and then to July 15.
Nina Shengold‘s plays include Finger Foods, War at Home, Homesteaders, and Romeo/Juliet, and have been produced around the world. Her one-act No Shoulder was filmed by director Suzi Yoonessi, with Melissa Leo and Samantha Sloyan.
Nina Shengold is an award-winning author, playwright, and screenwriter. Her debut novel Clearcut was a Book Sense notable selection, won a Henry Miller Award from nerve.com, and appeared on Year's Best lists in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Francisco Bay Times, Out.com (#1 selection) and BookMarks.
On the eve of her sixtieth birthday, Nina Shengold embarks on a to walk the path surrounding the Catskills’ glorious Ashokan Reservoir every day for a year, at all times of day and in all kinds of weather, trying to find something new every time.
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Nina Shengold won the Writers Guild Award for her teleplay Labor of Love, starring Marcia Gay Harden, and the ABC Playwright Award for Homesteaders.
