BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.5//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:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150326T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150326T210000 DTSTAMP:20240329T073804 CREATED:20140815T070600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T175529Z UID:247703-1427396400-1427403600@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Word Works: Luis Alberto Urrea on Understory DESCRIPTION:The understory is the engine room of successful prose. It is the sweat lodge and the haunted house and the shadowland. It is the invisible narrative\, the indirect means of telling a story. Bad writing teachers call it imagery—but imagery is merely the first step down under. Urrea will explain understory as a unique writing tool. Nonfiction writer Margot Kahn Case will moderate the Q&A. \nLuis Alberto Urrea is a prolific and acclaimed author of fourteen books\, including poetry\, essays\, and novels.  Born in Tijuana\, Mexico\, to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother\, Urrea’s work is inspired by his cross-cultural upbringing and unique perspective of life on both sides of the border. His first book\, Across the Wire\, which draws from his experiences working with Tijuana garbage pickers as a missionary in his early twenties\, was named a New York Times Notable Book. Among his most celebrated works is The Devil’s Highway\, a revealing nonfiction account of twenty-six Mexican immigrants lost in the torrid\, desolate Arizona desert. The book was a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and a Kiriyama Prize winner. He has taught writing workshops at Harvard University\, the Massachusetts Bay Community College\, and the University of Colorado. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/word-works-luis-alberto-urrea-understory/ CATEGORIES:Mainstage END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR