Showing up to write isn’t half the battle – it is the battle. This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your "voice," and keep your writing process in motion.
Warlight, Michael Ondaatje’s first novel in seven years, opens as the apparent dark story of two teenagers left on their own in post-World War II London. The plot morphs with the discovery of the secret life of the teens’ mother as a wartime spy.
Showing up to write isn’t half the battle – it is the battle. This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your "voice," and keep your writing process in motion.
The American Local Community: Its Role and Its Challenges
Euripides, the most ‘modern’ of the ancient Greek playwrights, examines human flaws as well as noble actions, and regularly challenges the assumptions of his audience. In this course, we will read and discuss four of his plays that confront various societal norms: Alcestis, which examines selfishness vs.
This course offers a guided reading of Homer’s great epic poem, The Iliad. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in analysis and discussion of various aspects of the poem, including style, historical context, and the poem’s significance within the literary canon.
Wilkie Collins created the very first detective to appear in a novel-length mystery, Sergeant Cuff in The Moonstone (1868). Cuff is called to an English country house to investigate the disappearance of a sacred diamond. Charles Dickens began a rival tale with the Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870).
Creative nonfiction covers a wide range of possibilities from memoir to sports or travel writing. Come share a slice of your life or passion for a pursuit you care about.
An insightful memoir seen from the author’s inevitable modulation through time. Oates is a sensitive time traveler; for her, memory serves a transcendental function.
Creative nonfiction covers a wide range of possibilities from memoir to sports or travel writing. Come share a slice of your life or passion for a pursuit you care about.
Two of Britain’s most celebrated writers are E.M. Forster (1879-1970) and Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954). Both Forster’s Howard’s End and Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day are considered two of twentieth century’s finest British novels.
The poet Steven Leveni claims, The saddest part of being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life. Writing poetry helps focus our attention, and together we learn how to see.
Bring 12-15 copies of a poem you have written to the first class.
For as long as human beings have had language, they have had myths. Mythology is our earliest form of literary expression and the foundation of all history and morality.
Book: The World of Myth, David Leeming
This workshop will provide a window into important times in your life: how it was to grow up in your home, to survive adolescence, what made you who you are. This journey will help you reflect on your life. Simple exercises and prompts will lead you to write to short vignettes.
For as long as human beings have had language, they have had myths. Mythology is our earliest form of literary expression and the foundation of all history and morality.
Book: The World of Myth, David Leeming
How does it feel to age? Do the changes to our bodies and psyches come as a shock, as a challenge, or as natural processes? Join the conversation as we explore the issues of growing older as portrayed in the short stories of such writers as Saul Bellow, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, V.S. Pritchett and many others.
In Hope Edelman’s Motherless Daughters, she writes about mothers who are absent, either literally or figuratively. Both Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying explore this theme. We will read and discuss these novels, using Edelman’s book as a basis for our conversations.
Writing in the voice of a persona offers a special creative opportunity to adopt the personality, history, diction and obsessions of someone (or something!) other than yourself.