The Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing is delighted that Roya Hakakian will be giving a seminar for us. The Makings of a Literary Detective: How to integrate research convincingly and seamlessly into your narrative Roya Hakakian: The goal of this seminar is to help you become a literary detective. Through exercises, an exploration of texts, and discussion you will learn how to harness the many different forms of research to guide your literary narrative (fiction and nonfiction) in an authentic and credible way. Topics include: * Building authenticity and credibility * Examining literary works for elements of research * Macro & Micro: Storyboarding and constructing a paragraph * The value of wit and whimsy Readings will include: Marilynne Robinson, Gilead Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian Philip Roth, Sabbath’s Theatre David Foster Wallace, Consider The Lobster JM Coetzee, Waiting For The Barbarians Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light You will receive a pdf of the readings a week prior to the seminar. DATE: December 25, 2014. WHERE: Moshav Beit Zayit (off Route 1, between Mevasseret Tzion & Motza and close to Givat Shaul, Jerusalem) TIME: 9.30 AM prompt (doors open at 9 AM) – 3 PM (with a 45 min break for lunch) COST: 475 NIS per seminar (10% discount for students and alumni of the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing). For more details and to reserve your place, please email me at barilanwriting@gmail as soon as possible. Bio: Born and raised in a Jewish family in Tehran, Roya Hakakian came to the United States in May 1985 on political asylum. She is the author of the nonfiction political thriller, Assassins of the Turquoise Place (Grove/Atlantic, 2011), about Tehran’s terror campaign against Iranian dissidents in Western Europe, and of the acclaimed memoir Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran (Crown, 2004), as well as two books of poetry in Persian. She is a former associate producer at CBS’s 60 Minutes and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction. Her opinion columns and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Daily Beast/Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Currently, she is a scholar-in-residence at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.
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