LIVE! #39
6 March 2022
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: 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 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?
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
