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Afternoon Craft Conversation with Porter Shreve
Whether they're narrator, protagonist or secondary character they exert such a force on everyone in their sphere as to be unforgettable.
Date & Time:
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
2:30pm to 3:30pm
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Location:
1928 Saint Mary’s Road, Moraga, CA 94575
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Description:
“The Magnetic Character”
What do Ellen Olenska, Jay Gatsby, Yunior de las Casas, Jamaica Kincaid’s fictional mothers and Olive Kitteridge have in common? They’re all magnetic, the kind of characters you can build a novel around. Whether they’re narrator, protagonist or secondary character they exert such a force on everyone in their sphere as to be unforgettable. In her essay “Notes on Writing a Novel,” Elizabeth Bowen says that every novel needs “at least one character capable of keying the reader up, as though he (the reader) were in the presence of someone he is in love with.” In this talk we’ll look at some especially magnetic characters in literature and discuss various strategies for discovering and bringing them to life in our own work.
Porter Shreve is the author of four novels. The Obituary Writer was a New York Times Notable Book. Drives Like a Dream and When the White House Was Ours were Chicago Tribune Books of the Year. And his latest, The End of the Book, published in 2014, was a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year.
Contact:
925.631.8556
