24PearlStreet Workshops and Events
Nick Flynn The Woman in the Dunes—A Metaphor that Transforms as it Moves through Time May 7, 2024 Price: Regular Rate: $75.00 Teacher/Student Rate: $40.00
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time)
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe sets up an impossible (or at least unlikely) conceit, then commits to it fully. Part speculative, part horror, part a study in psychological tension, part love story, Abe creates a world unlike any we know, that somehow lines up (metaphorically) with the world as it is.
Recommended reading:
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
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Biography
Nick Flynn (writer, playwright, and poet) is the author of thirteen books, including Low (Graywolf, 2023) and Some Ether (Graywolf, 2000), winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. His bestselling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Norton, 2004) was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro (Focus Features, 2012) and has been translated into fifteen languages. Stay: Threads, Collaborations, and Conversations (Ze Books, 2020), documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers.
