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Join
us for a monthly get together to discuss books as writers.
Every month we
will read a new book - novel, memoir, collection of short stories -
and get
together to see what we can learn from it as writers. What
was the author trying to accomplish? How
was the book structured and did it work? Was
the dialogue effective? Why
did the author use that particular point of view? How
did the characters develop or didn't they? How
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The
Reading as Writers Book Club meets
the second Tuesday of every month from
6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Writers Room.
Upcoming
books to be discussed:
January 8 - The Bone People by Keri Hulme (carried over from
December)
February 12 - The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
March
11 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(in conjunction with the perfomance
of the play at Theaterwork)
(Past
books include Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi, When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka, and The
History of Love by Nicole Krauss, My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk, and
Desire by Lindsay Ahl, Light in August by William Faulkner, The
Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, If
On a Winters Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, Elizabeth Costello
by J.M. Coetzee, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, The
Lover by Marguerite Duras and Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig.) The
book club leader is Jenice Gharib. Jenice is the Director of the Southwest Literary
Center. She is a former magazine editor who has published essays, reviews and
feature articles. Her poetry chapbooks include Were We Not All Storytellers,
Rubies and One Kiss, and Falling Leaves and Grace. Her play, The
Dressing Room, was produced as part of "The Seven" play festival
at The Cell Theater in Albuquerque in July 2006. Some Kiss We Want was
produced at the Santa Fe Playhouse in February 2007 as part of Benchwarmers VI.
Jenice has presented writing workshops, worked as a writing coach, and edited
five books. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University.
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Resources For
information on reading as a writer check out these web sites and books. Let us
know if you come across other resources and we will post them on the site.
On
the Web
"Reading
as a Writer" by Christopher Meeks
Reading
to Become a Better Writer by Lolaness Reading
for Writers Blogspot
Books
Reading
Like a Writer:
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to
Write Them
by Francine Prose 13
Ways of Looking at the Novel
by Jane Smiley Unknown
Masterpieces: Writers Rediscover Literature's Unknown Classics.
Edwin
Frank, ed. Includes writing by Toni Morrison, Michael Cunningham, Lydia Davis. |
