Writers Who Read
LIVE! #41
LIVE! #41
1 May 2022
Intimacies
by Katie Kitamura
by Katie Kitamura
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
Meet today's author: Katie Kitamura
- Education
- Undergrad: Princeton; PhD in American literature, London Consortium
- Thesis: The Aesthetics of Vulgarity and the Modern American Novel (2004)
- Writes for
- The Guardian, The New York Times, and Wired
- - Articles on mixed martial arts, film criticism and analysis, and art
- 4 Novels
- The Longshot, 2009
- Gone to the Forest, 2013
- A Separation, 2017
- Intimacies, 2021
- 1 Memoir
- Japanese for Travellers: A Journey, 2006
“An intimacy that’s forced upon you is a form of violence.”
- Katie Kitamura
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?
What is
Vulgarity?
Intimacies - Stats
Marketing: Psychological Literary Fiction; Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction;
Women's Psychological Fiction
Genre: Present-Day Archplot Longform
Print Pages: 238; Reading Grade: 8-10
Word count: 52,766; Avg. wds/sent.: 17.75
Lexical Density: 40.93; Flesch Reading Ease: 65.13
POV: Narrator; Person: 1st; Tense: Past
Publish date: July 20, 2021
Publisher: Riverhead
Sold By: Penguin / Random House
Audio book narr.: Traci Kato-Kiriyama (5:26)
Awards: National Bestseller; Longlisted for 2021 National Book Award;
New York Times Top 10 of 2021; Barack Obama's 2021 Reading List
