Summer Workshop Program 2024

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Nick Flynn Memoir as Bewilderment August 11 to August 16, 2024 Time 9 am - 12 pm Discipline: Nonfiction/Memoir Intermediate/Advanced On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options
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In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end.” In our week together, I would like to examine this idea by thinking about the concept of “bewilderment” and how it gets acted out in our writing—either through syntax, our accessing the duende, leaps into the unconscious, or simply circling around what is unsaid, unknown, unrealized. This will be a generative workshop, in the sense that we will look closely at work we bring in to find ways to transform it and go deeper into the shadow world—in this it will also be a radical revision workshop.

 

10-20 pages of work in various stages of completion, from notes on napkins to a couple polished pages, will be asked of you to arrive with.

Biography

Nick Flynn’s most recent book is Low (Graywolf, 2023). Other recent books include: This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (Norton, 2020); and Stay: Threads, Collaborations, and Conversations (Ze Books, 2020), which documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers. 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.

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