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EVENTS

Wednesday, 17th December, 7.30 pm - Lecture
92nd St Y Tribeca Branch, NYC

Saturday, 31st January, 2009, 10:00 am - One-day class: The Past on the Page: Writing from History
Smithsonian Residents Program, Washington DC

CLASSES

2009 dates to be determined - teaching at NYU - "The Past on the Page: Bringing History to Life"
X32.9008 / Non-Credit / $375
Thursdays from October 10- November 20; 6 sessions, 6.20-8.20 pm
"The past is another country," the novelist L.P. Hartley wrote, "they do things differently there." Writers delving into history must behave like travelers exploring an exotic lost world, trying to understand a landscape that is vaguely familiar yet utterly bizarre. Learn how to bring the past to life in a way that is fresh, vivid, and relevant to modern concerns in genres including creative nonfiction, fiction, travel narratives, and personal essays. Even the most personal of memoirists find that history is not only fascinating for itself; it casts a piercing light on our own lives.