Master Class: How to Read Like a Writer with Rabih Alameddine and special guest Aleksandar Hemon
Master Class: How to Read Like a Writer with Rabih Alameddine and special guest Aleksandar Hemon
3 Sessions: Sundays, June 2, 9, 16
1:00-3:00pm ET
Rabih Alameddine
This class is taught by Rabih Alameddine, the author of six critically acclaimed novels. His most recent book, The Wrong End of the Telescope, was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award and called “profound and wonderful” by Publisher’s Weekly.
There is no better method of learning how to write than studying the works of masters. Aleksandar Hemon is one of our best, and in this three-part seminar, we will study his latest novel, The World and All That it Holds. In the first two sessions, we will read this incredible book closely, paying attention to the language used, to diction, plot, characters, style, structure. In the third session, we will continue our discussion, after which Hemon joins our group, and we get to ask questions about the choices he made, the techniques he employed, and so on.
Workshop Highlights:
Become a better reader
Become a better writer
Have fun!
For information on scholarships, please contact Kate Mabus, kate@theshipmanagency.com
Rabih Alameddine is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, most recently The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic, 2021), winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, which Publisher’s Weekly called, “profound and wonderful,” The Angel of History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016), An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press, 2014), a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, the winner of the California Book Award, and a Washington Post, Kirkus, and NPR Best Book of 2014, The Hakawati (Knopf, 2008), I, The Divine (W.W. Norton, 2001), and Koolaids (Picador, 1998). He is also the author of a book of short stories,The Perv (Picador, 1999.) Alameddine received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.
