LIVE! #37
2 January 2022
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
Today's author: Patricia Lockwood
- Childhood in Ft. Wayne, St. Louis, Cincinnati
- Known primarily for:
- - Rape Joke (Poem, 2013)
- - Priestdaddy (Memoir, 2017)
- - 3 poetry collections (2012, 2014, 2017)
- Essays / Literary Criticism has appeared in
London Review of Books, The New Yorker
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
- • Voice
- • Character development
- • Horizontal structure
- • Pacing
- • Layering of themes
- • Overall effect
No One Is Talking About This - Stats
- Marketing: Literary Satire Fiction, Humorous Literary Fiction, Satire Fiction
- Genre: Present-Day Medium-Form Miniplot
- Print Pages: 222; Reading Level: Grade 8-10
- Word count: 41,144; Avg. wds/sent.: 18.69
- Lexical Density: 44.93; Flesch Reading Ease: 68.03
- POV: She; Person: 3rd; Tense: Past
- Publish date: February 16, 2021
- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Sold By: Penguin / Random House
- Audio book narr.: Kristen Sieh (4 hrs, 3 mins)
- Awards: shortlisted for Booker, 1st Novel Prize, Women's Prize
- No One... written 2017-2020 mostly on an iPhone
Writers Who Read: Coming Up
February 6: Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro (UK, 2021)
March 6: The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz (USA, 2021)
April 3: The Promise - Damon Galgut (S. Africa, 2021)
May 1: Intimacies - Katie Kitamura (USA, 2021)
June 5: Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen (USA, 2021)