About this event
In today’s busy, information-saturated world, it’s hard to sit down and read a text closely and carefully as often as we’d like. This new discussion group will meet weekly to make a space for just such close, careful reading. Each week, we’ll read a different short story, essay, excerpt, or other short piece of literature, which will be sent to registrants in advance. We’ll use our time together to talk about the piece in-depth, discussing both the meaning and the literary techniques used by the author. At this session, we’ll discuss Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral,’ a short story about a man, his wife, and her friend who is blind. About Raymond Carver: “American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938 and died in Port Angeles, Washington, in 1988… Carver played a major role in reviving the American short story form in the 1980s, and he has been referred to as one of the ‘greatest modern short story writers’ and as ‘the American Chekhov’. Although he is often associated with Minimalism, Carver himself disliked the label, thinking it misrepresented the nature of his work... Though he may be best known for his eight books of short fiction, he also wrote essays, plays, a screenplay, reviews, introductions, and seven books of poetry.” - from Peninsula College This event will take place in-person at Mulberry Street Library, in our Community Room on LL2. Registration is required to receive a PDF of the reading for this session, and each session of this program has separate registration. May 6 - ‘Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power’ by Audre Lorde May 20 - No Close Read Session - Chewing It Over: Writing & Cooking Towards an Asian-American Diaspora May 27 - ‘The Library of Babel’ by Jorge Luis Borges
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