I’m excited to be working with some of the writers from the Hampden Writer’s Group over the next few weeks. The title of the workshop is “Tell It Slant: Real Life as Raw Material for Good Fiction.” We’ll be generating a lot of new material together, but we’ll also be reading exemplary texts. Here’s what we’ll discuss in the next couple of sessions:
For this evening (11/3):
- “Parents’ Morning Epiphany” and “Blocked” by Zadie Smith (from Grand Union [stories])
- “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction” by Zadie Smith (from New York Review of Books)
For next week (11/10):
- “All Aunt Hagar’s Children” by Edward P. Jones (from All Aunt Hagar’s Children [stories])