Literary readings. Unleashed. Fiction. Poetry. Nonfiction.
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Session 26
Another great session recorded at the Vermont Studio Center a year ago. This one features Vicente Lozano reading an excerpt from his novel-in-progress. It’s wildly compelling and fantastic.
This summer we’ll offer up four more readings from Vermont.
We’re taking our time, stretching out the lit goodness. Enjoy.
I recently began leading a new workshop composed of students in their 50s and 60s. All have children and busy careers. And I sometimes wonder, as I look around the room, why at this late stage they’ve chosen to write at all. I fear that perhaps I’m giving them false hope. But it’s hard for me to remain cynical when I think about their motives. What they’re seeking is exactly what I wanted: the refuge of stories, which remain the most reliable paths to meaning ever devised by our species.
Session 25
Megan Levad reads a great set of poems in Lively Words Session 25. It’s awesome and filled with real bird sounds in the woods.
Several of them are featured in a recent issue of Fence.
Recorded at the Vermont Studio Center last May. Check it out.
The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer “How should novels be?” but “Why write novels at all?
I’m put in some exotic box…I’m like Cheech Marin. I’m the colorful sidekick. I feel that a lot.
