BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T190000 DTSTAMP:20240329T004134 CREATED:20190822T000000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T175225Z UID:249315-1576177200-1576177200@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Word Works | Michael Cunningham: The Problem Is Never the Plot DESCRIPTION:DUE TO A FAMILY TRAGEDY\, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY\, DECEMBER 12. \nA writer’s main concern should not be with making a story happen. When a writer has taken the time to create characters who are deeply human\, those characters\, with all their needs\, desires\, and actions\, in turn take care of the plot\, all by themselves.  \nIn this Word Works: Writers on Writing lecture\, Michael Cunningham\, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours\, will discuss the different methods a writer can use to discover and thoroughly get to know their characters. \nAfter the talk\, Cunningham will be interviewed onstage by Portland-based novelist Cari Luna. \n\nMichael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World\, Flesh and Blood\, The Hours\, By Nightfall\, and The Snow Queen\, as well as a short story collection\, A Wild Swan and Other Tales\, all published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. The Hours won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and PEN Faulkner Award\, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. \nCunningham’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New Yorker\, the New York Times\, the Atlantic Monthly\, the Paris Review\, and other publications. A recipient of National Endowment for the Arts\, Guggenheim\, and Whiting Foundation fellowships\, he is Senior Lecturer in English at Yale University. \n\n“We’d hoped vaguely to fall in love but hadn’t worried much about it\, because we’d thought we had all the time in the world. Love had seemed so final and so dull—love was what ruined our parents. Love had delivered them to a life of mortgage payments and household repairs; to unglamorous jobs and the fluorescent aisles of a supermarket at two in the afternoon. We’d hoped for love of a different kind\, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves. It sounded possible. If we didn’t rush or grab\, if we didn’t panic\, a love both challenging and nurturing might appear. If the person was imaginable\, then the person could exist.” \n—Michael Cunningham\, from A Home at the End of the World \n\nCari Luna is the author of The Revolution of Every Day\, which won the Oregon Book Award for Fiction. A fellow of Yaddo and Ragdale\, her writing has appeared in Guernica\, Salon\, Jacobin\, Electric Literature\, Catapult\, The Rumpus\, PANK\, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland\, Oregon. \n\nRelated Classes\n\n\nMichael Cunningham will teach Letting Your Characters Tell the Story on Friday\, December 13\, from 1–5 pm.\nCari Luna will teach Writing without a Map on Saturday\, December 14\, from 10 am–2 pm.\n\n\n \nWord Works craft talks by novelists\, essayists\, poets\, and memoirists focus on writing as process rather than finished product\, examining how language works to inspire and provoke new ideas through live close readings of the writer’s own or others’ work. These talks are designed to apply to writers of all genres as well as illuminate well-known works for avid readers. The talks are followed by an interview with a noted editor\, writer\, or critic. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/word-works-michael-cunningham-the-problem-is-never-the-plot/ CATEGORIES:Mainstage END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR