LIVE! #6
2 January 2019
Agenda
- Why We're Here
- Literary Forensics
- - What do I bring?
- - What do I feel?
- - What do I notice?
- - What do I study?
- Next Month's Reading & Study
Why We're Here
We Writers want to improve our craft
by Reading like a Writer
through Literary Forensics training
we learn from each other
Roundtable Rules
Always refer back to the book
We practice active listening & serendipity
Every feeling and observation is valid...
but not every conclusion
Always refer back to the book
“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 I 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 I notice?
- • Language and Grammar
- • Context
- • Point of view
- • Character & character development
- • Pacing
- • Horizontal structure
- • Layering of themes
- • Overall effect
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
Word Cloud
Writers Who Read: Next Up
The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer (USA, 2018)