Fiction Workshop: Recognition and Surprise with Lan Samantha Chang - Miami Book Fair
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In this workshop, we will explore how to create the most consequential moments in stories and novels: those crucial passages of recognition and surprise when truths change and when a reader’s sense of time is altered. At such moments, which are composed of both familiarity and strangeness, the world of the story is transformed. We’ll look at work by James Joyce, Read More
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Fiction - Miami Book Fair
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