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02/02 Beginning the Memoir Part 2 with Thomas Larson

Date: First Class is Saturday, Feb. 2, 2012 Time: 10 am- 12:30 pm Number of sessions: 4--Saturdays, Feb. 2, 9, 16, and 23 Members: $150 Nonmembers: $180 Location: Ink Spot, 710 13th St., Ste 210, San Diego, CA 92101

Beginning the Memoir II

In part two of Beginning the Memoir, we’ll focus on reading and critiquing each others’ work with detailed feedback from the instructor about each student’s writing.

We will also study Patricia Hampl’s The Florist’s Daughter and discover how she structures her book by using strategies of narrative, descriptive, and expository writing. Please read Chapter 1 before our first class.

Note: Students do not need to have taken Part 1 in order to take Part 2.

 

Thomas Larson is the author of Memoir and the Memoirist and, most recently, The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings.” He writes personal essays, memoir, nonfiction, and music and literary criticism. He is also the editor of A Year in Ink, the Ink Spot’s first anthology in 2008. He is a contributing writer for the San Diego Reader where, since 1999, he has specialized in narrative nonfiction and profiles. Larson’s work has appeared in many literary magazines and journals, among them The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, Southwest Review, Antioch Review, Agni, Counterpunch, Chicago Reader, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and New Letters Anchor Essay Annual: The Best of 1997. www.thomaslarson.com

 

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