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Julia Alvarez in Conversation With Samantha Mabry

Online N/A, Portland

Afterlife (Algonquin Books) is the first adult novel in almost 15 years by Julia Alvarez, the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. "A stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own." — Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find…

Free

Summer 2020 Online: Starting the Novel

Online N/A, Portland

Dive in to the first draft of your novel with confidence, excitement, and curiosity, armed with tools to deal with doubt and writers block. This three week online class will include writing exercises, feedback and a discussion of the variety of ways to begin a novel. July 9 - 23, 2020 Thursdays, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. (3 sessions) online via Zoom Cari Luna Cari Luna is the author of The Revolution of Every Day, which won the Oregon Book Award for Fiction. A fellow of Yaddo and Ragdale, her writing has appeared in Guernica, Salon, Jacobin, Electric Literature, Catapult, The Rumpus, PANK, and elsewhere.

$140

Delve Readers Seminar Online: Milan Kundera

Online N/A, Portland

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Explore Czech writer Kundera alongside some of his inspirations. We will begin with his most famous work, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, reading both the original text and exploring major influences on this work, through excerpts from Kafka and Nietzsche. We will also read his novel Immortality and short story collection Laughable Loves. We will discuss what is distinctive about Kundera’s style, such as his lyrical writing and preoccupation with philosophical themes. Of course, no discussion on Kundera would be complete without a discussion surrounding the thematic elements of totalitarianism and revolution. Reading List: The Unbearable Lightness of Being Immortality Laughable Loves Excerpts from Nietzsche and Kafka (guide will provide PDFs to…

$230