Samantha Hunt
Samantha Hunt’s books include the novels The Seas (Tin House Books), The Invention of Everything Else (Mariner Books), and Mr. Splitfoot (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt); the story collection The Dark Dark and the genre-bending nonfiction work The Unwritten Book (both FSG). She is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Bard Fiction Prize, and the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Prize. Her work has been translated into 13 languages.
Master Class
Samantha Hunt
Online
Thursday, February 20, 2025
An Atlas of Everything: Maps, Unseen Worlds, and Writing
Many narratives function like sportscars on the open road or a hunter’s lung-seeking arrow. They move swiftly to their target: the end. Ursula K. LeGuin wrote, “I’m not telling that story. We’ve heard it, we’ve all heard all about all the sticks, spears, and swords…but we have not heard about the thing to put things in, the container for the thing contained. That is a new story.” A map is a container, and an atlas even more so. An atlas includes thousands of routes that interlace and cross. Plus, we might get lost (from los, a disbanding of our armies). When we write in a cartographic model, we dissolve borders and boundaries. Personhood realizes its plurality. Fernando Pessoa says, “I know myself only as a symphony.” This generative lecture will contain gorgeous maps, texts, and writing prompts to help us consider the cartographic in our writing as we zoom through macro and miniature worlds; consider the anachronous simultaneity of history, memory, the present, and the future as we walk the world as psycho-geographers, awakened to wonder.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
7:00-9:00pm ET
Online on Zoom
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