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:20191114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T190000 DTSTAMP:20240328T222640 CREATED:20190822T000000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T175225Z UID:249317-1573758000-1573758000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Word Works | Tom Perrotta: Laughter Is Only the Beginning DESCRIPTION:Tom Perrotta\, the bestselling author of the novels Mrs. Fletcher\, The Leftovers\, Little Children\, and Election\, will discuss his secrets for balancing satire and comedy with psychological realism to create the hilarious and heartbreaking portraits of suburbia that inspired the New York Times to call him “an American Chekhov” and People magazine to write that he’s “the rare writer equally gifted at drawing people’s emotional maps…and creating sidesplitting scenes.” \nAfter the talk\, Perrotta will be interviewed onstage by author Jonathan Evison. \n\nTom Perrotta is the author of nine works of fiction\, including Election and Little Children\, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films\, and The Leftovers\, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed\, Peabody Award-winning HBO series. His other books include Bad Haircut\, The Wishbones\, Joe College\, The Abstinence Teacher\, Nine Inches\, and his newest\, Mrs. Fletcher. His work has been translated into a multitude of languages. Perrotta grew up in New Jersey and lives outside of Boston. \n\n“Not that they would\, but if any of the other mothers had asked how it was that Sarah\, of all people\, had ended up married\, living in the suburbs\, and caring full-time for a small child\, she would have blamed it all on a moment of weakness. At least that was how she described it to herself\, though the explanation always seemed a bit threadbare. After all\, what was adult life but one moment of weakness after another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children\, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment\, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.” \n―Tom Perrotta\, from Little Children \n\nJonathan Evison is the New York Times bestselling author of All About Lulu\, West of Here\, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving\, This is Your Life Harriet Chance!\, Lawn Boy\, and the forthcoming novels Legends of the North Cascades and Small World. \n\nRelated Classes\n\nTom Perrotta will teach Outside In: Two Ways of Thinking about Character on Saturday\, November 16th\, from 2 – 5 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-tom-perrotta-laughter-is-only-the-beginning/ CATEGORIES:Mainstage END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR