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The “Uncensored” Gaze

American Legion Post 134 2104 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

If the "Untold" story was too R-rated to be read at the gallery... or on the radio... or at Powell's... its time has come! TEN of our authors will be reading their amazing - over-sexed, foul-mouthed, squirm-inducing, or otherwise just too damn "adult" - stories. Reading will be: Stephen Arndt, Liz Asch, Doug Chase, David Ciminello, Sean Davis, Dian Greenwood, Sara Guest, Robert Hill, Lisa Kaser, and Kevin Meyer... and maybe a surprise or two...?

Free

Elena Ferrante: The Neapolitan Novels/Part Two

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

This Delve season we are running two seminars (in fall 2018 and spring 2019) to consider these four novels, in all their depth and power, against the contemporary fiction landscape and backdrop of other timeless novel series'. Seminars can be taken as stand-alone considerations of Ferrante's work or together to consider the full scope of this body of unquestionably strong literature. Guide: Sara Guest, Tuition: $200 (Scholarships available!)

$200

Delve Readers Seminars Online: Free 90 minute Discussion on Normal People by Sally Rooney

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

A free 90-minute Delve discussion on Normal People by Sally Rooney, led by Delve guide Sara Guest. The discussion is limited to 16 people and pre-registration is required. Registered participants will receive information on how to sign on to the Zoom meeting. “Sally Rooney’s sentences are droll, nimble and matter-of-fact. There’s nothing particularly special about them, except for the way she throws them. She’s like one of those elite magicians who can make a playing card pierce the rind of a watermelon.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times Bursting onto the scene at the age of 26 with the 2017 publication of her first novel Conversations with Friends, Irish novelist Sally Rooney has quickly assumed a coveted spot not only as a voice of…

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Delve Readers Seminar: Delve for Writers: Joan Didion and Durga Chew-Bose

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland, OR, United States

Delve for Writers is a new, occasional Delve series that offers seminars that focus on close readings of narrative, form, and stylistic choices that writers can incorporate into their own writing practice. Creative nonfiction is the perfect place to find voice, ideas and perspective – and nobody does it better Joan Didion and contemporary groundbreaker Durga Chew-Bose, whose collection Too Much and Not the Mood is a wonderful mashup of what Didion has always done so well, mixing cultural criticism and memoir in think-pieces that inspire and challenge us. In this Delve for Writers, we’ll look carefully at the craft of what we’ve read with close readings of style, form, mechanics, and conceptual and narrative choices. This seminar will focus on what we can learn…

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$245
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