Poets & Writers Theater
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“One of the things that I think I can say now with a great deal of confidence about writing is that usually, the things that you are most ashamed of are actually what you should be trying to describe,” says Alexander Chee in this 2018 lecture titled “The Writer and Life,” part of Brown University’s public lecture series devoted to various forms of nonfiction writing. For more Chee, read “Which Story Will You Tell? A Q&A with Alexander Chee” by Amy Gall.
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“I didn’t understand that I had to be ruthless. I didn’t understand that my job as a writer wasn’t to coddle my characters and create these fairy tales for them to live.” At Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Jesmyn Ward and Edwidge Danticat discuss writing about their homes and the power of place.
Tags: 2015 | Random House | Bloomsbury | Brown University | Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward | Men We Reaped | Edwidge Danticat | Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America | Writing for a Broken World | Ralph Rodriguez | Brother, I'm Dying | The Fire This Time | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction -
In this video, poets Kevin Young, Evie Shockley, and Terrance Hayes participate in a roundtable symposium on newness in the creative arts and American expressive culture held at Brown University’s Granoff Center for the Creative Arts.
