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Daytime Talk Series: Point of View - What's the Point?

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 10:00 AM | For Members Only | Whitridge Room | Free of charge; registration required

Hoariest of all writerly topics perhaps, point of view is the air that a novel breathes, all too easily polluted. Recent novels have been written from a point of view ranging from feloniously unreliable to wantonly unpredictable, providing writers some nifty tools and seductive traps as well. In this talk, a distinguished editor looks beyond the divisions by pronoun toward the narrative dynamics of POV, and scavenges classics and contemporaries from Trollope to Gillian Flynn in the hunt for uses and abuses.

Walter Bode has been in book publishing for three decades and now works independently. Books he has edited have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Casey Award for Best Sports Book, the Lambda Award for Best Fiction, the Whitbread Award for Biography, and the Gold Dagger for Best Mystery Novel.

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The Writing Life events in 2016 are generously underwritten by Jenny Lawrence.