LIVE! #33
5 September 2021
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
Today's author: Douglas Stuart
- Born and raised in Glasgow
- After graduating from the Royal College of
Art in London,
he moved to New York City, where he began a career in fashion design - His writing has appeared in the New Yorker and on LitHub
- Shuggie Bain is Stuart's first novel
- Writing teleplay for Shuggie
- Second novel, Young Mungo will be published in 2022
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?
Shuggie Bain - Stats
- Marketing: Coming of Age Fiction, Family Life Fiction, Literary Fiction, TV Movie & Game Tie-In Fiction
- Genre: Realistic Recent-Past Archplot Long-Form
- Word count: 155,280; avg. wds/sent.: 12.48
- Print Pages: 448
- Reading Level: Grade 7; Lexical Density: 49.01
- POV: multiple
- Publish date: February 11, 2020
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Sold By: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
- Audio book narr.: Angus King (17 hrs, 30 mins)
- Awards: 2020 Booker Prize; Finalist, 2020 National Book Award
- Recognition: A Best Book of 2020: NY Times
