LIVE! #6
2 January 2019
Agenda
- Why We're Here / Roundtable Rules
- Introduction to Literary Forensics
- Group Discussion
- Further Study
Why We're Here
We writers want to improve our craft
by reading like a writer
We learn from each other
using Literary Forensics
Roundtable Rules
Always refer back to the book
Practice active listening & serendipity
Every feeling and observation is valid...
but not every conclusion
Always refer back to the book
Reading Teaches Writing
“Migration is a basic condition of humanity”
- Mohsin Hamid
“The book is really a novel about losing things;
about breakups . . . with places, with people, and eventually our own lives.”
- Mohsin Hamid
CHAPTER 3
"Nadia and Saeed were, back then, always in possession of their phones. In their phones were antennas, and these antennas sniffed out an invisible world, as if by magic, a world that was all around them, and also nowhere, transporting them to places distant and near, and to places that had never been and would never be."
What do you feel?
What in the book elicited that feeling?
Every feeling and observation is valid...
but every conclusion should be questioned
We practice serendipity
- nothing is too crazy
Always refer back to the book
What do you notice?
Annotated by Mohsin Hamid
Exit West - Stats
- Marketing: Migrant Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Political, Cultural Heritage
- Genre: Magical-Realism, Present-Day, Arch-Plot Long-Form
- Word count: 47,297
- Print Pages: 226
- Tense: Past
- POV: 3rd Person Omniscient
- Publish date: March 7, 2017
- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Sold by: Penguin Group
- Prizes: Man Booker Finalist
- Best of 2017: New York Times Best 10 Books, San Fran Chronicle, People, Entertainment, GQ, Time, O, LA Times
- Study Sources
- Now Read ThisBook Club
(PBS NewsHour and the New York Times) - LitCharts Study Guides
- YouTube Interviews
- Now Read ThisBook Club
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