No. 29
In these times of fragments and fragmented times, what are the shapes of our comfort. Built and imagined. What gives boundaries and connection, healing and shelter, familiar pathways and points of rebellion.
Event
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace
Join us on Facebook Live and YouTube for a conversation with Yiyun Li, author of Where Reasons End, and Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, about Tolstoy Together and the power of communal reading. This discussion will be moderated by A Public Space editor and founder Brigid Hughes, and hosted by Left Bank Books. Register here. Wednesday, September 29, at 7 PM (CT).
Academy
Anne Elliott
How can we use ekphrasis—the literary response to visual art—to generate narrative? In this six session workshop with Anne Elliott, participants will study artworks and methods for translating the art into fiction, memoir, or other narrative forms. Through imagination and creative practice, we will trigger associations and memories, acknowledge historical contexts, and face the abstract with the concrete. Register here. Sundays, November 7–December 12, on Zoom.
Reading
Tolstoy Together 2021
Join us over Twitter and Instagram with the hashtag #TolstoyTogether for an encore book club reading of Tolstoy's War and Peace to celebrate the publication of Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace. Yiyun Li will lead us again in a careful, daily reading of War and Peace, beginning Wednesday, September 15 and continuing until December 8. See more details here.
Annie Coggan The Book of Errors
Friederike Mayröcker The Communicating Vessels
John L'Heureux The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast
