LIVE! #39
6 March 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: Jean Hanff Korelitz
- Novels (8) include:
- - A Jury of Her Peers (1996)
- - The Sabbathday River (1999)
- - The White Rose (2006)
- - Admission (2009); movie (2013)
- - You Should Have Known (2014); The Undoing (2020) HBO adaptation
- - The Devil and Webster (2017)
- - The Latecomer (2022)
- Other books
- The Properties of Breath (1989) poetry
- Interference Powder (2003) middle grade reader
- The Dead, 1904 (with Paul Muldoon) (2016) immersive theater adaptation of James Joyce's "The Dead"
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
The Plot - Stats
- Marketing: Heist Thrillers, Domestic Thrillers
- Genre: Present-Day Realistic Long-Form Fiction
- Print Pages: 317
- Word count: 94,637; Avg. wds/sent.: 13.55
- Reading Level: Grade 8; Lexical Density: 46.43
- Flesch Reading Ease: 71.34
- POV: Jake/Samantha; Person: 3rd; Tense: Past
- Publish date: May 11, 2021
- Publisher: Celadon Books
- Sold By: Macmillan
- Audio book narr.: Kirby Heyborne (10:43)
- Praise: The Tonight Show Summer Reads Winner; A New York Times Notable Book of 2021; "Insanely Readable" - Stephen King
- Limited Series Adaptation (Hulu): w/ Mahershala Ali
Writers Who Read: Coming Up
April 3: The Promise - Damon Galgut (S. Africa, 2021)
May 1: Intimacies - Katie Kitamura (USA, 2021)
June 5: Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen (USA, 2021)