Identity, Experience & Storytelling

[ Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984 ]

Identity, Experience & Storytelling

A Conversation with Roy Scranton

Join us for a discussion between Roy Scranton and Jennifer Ahern-Dodson about being a writer and reader in contemporary society. We’ll talk about how Scranton approaches his own writing and how he assesses the writing of others. Among the questions we’ll explore are:

• What makes a good story?
• What makes a story authentic?
• Which kinds of stories are identified as representing a field/an experience/a movement?
• How do editors make choices when organizing a collection?
• What role does personal experience play in telling a story?
• What role should a writer’s biography play in a reader’s assessment of that writer’s “right” to tell a particular story?

We’ll ask Scranton to draw on his own experience as a writer of fiction, non-fiction, and literary criticism as we explore these topics.

Free and open to the public. Light lunch served. Sponsored by the Forum for Scholars and Publics.