Replay: Andre Dubus III shares Five Things He's Learned about Writing as Dreaming
Check out the first five minutes of his recent class.
“If I’ve learned nothing in my decades of creative writing, I’ve learned this: the writing is larger than the writer, a surrender of each writer’s ego and its attendant authorial desires to something larger than herself, and this can only happen with a brave free-fall into the writer’s own psyche and imagination.”
– Andre Dubus III, Five Things I’ve Learned about Writing as Dreaming
Andre Dubus III’s class Sunday night was a great one. Andre also stayed an extra thirty minutes answering questions and sharing his remarkable, generous, practical, and inspiring approaches to writing.
Five Things He’s Learned about Writing as Dreaming was a rare – two-and-a-half hour – chance to hear from a great writer about how to embrace a more intuitive and exploratory approach to storytelling. Andre offered concrete, practical strategies for focusing on character experience and honest excavation, an approach that allows writers to ensure that their story to emerges naturally, and honestly, and vividly.
Andre is the New York Times bestseller author of House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His novel Gone So Long, has been named on many “Best Books” lists, including The Boston Globe’s “Twenty Best Books of 2018.” Most recently he is the author of the novel Such Kindness, and the collection of personal essays, Ghost Dogs. He’s has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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