As promised: The Class Calendar. I’ll teach three classes in what remains to us from 2023. You may see what they are below and read the course introductions. I hope to see you in one of them. Please remember, you are always invited to the Open Classes (which are free and open to all!) if you can’t or don’t want to commit to a month-long class! Trust me, the stuff below, that’s the stuff you wanna read.
The Virginia Woolf Writers’ Workshop
8 PM Tuesday September 5, 12, 19, 268 PM Thursday September 7, 14, 21, 28You may have seen the class introduction for The Virginia Woolf Writers’ Workshop here, but in case you didn’t, here’s the little write-up from our class posters: In this class, we’ll read, think, and write with Virginia Woolf. The name of the class comes from Danell Jones’s book, The Virginia Woolf Writers’ Workshop. Jones has sifted through Woolf’s diaries, notebooks, letters, and essays, and compiled her thoughts on art and writing in a fictional account of Woolf teaching a writers’ workshop. Through her brilliant essays, Virginia Woolf will teach us how to add thought and technique to imagination and creativity, how to notice intensely and come closer to our own creative vision. As we work our way through the writing exercises week after week, we’ll create our own collection of short essays on what it means to write, what it means to be a woman writer, what it means to write in the 21st century, and more!
There are still a couple of spots available in both the Tuesday and Thursday sections. Contact me to sign up before the classes are full and closed!
8 PM Tuesday October 10, 17, 24, 318 PM Thursday October 12, 19, 26, November 2Since I started teaching online in 2019, I’ve taught only two classes twice. One of them is Dubliners by James Joyce, a brilliantly lush book I find myself returning to regularly. Joyce brings together many of my personal interests, the short story, city life, and psychology, and does so in a language that sings and paints. You asked me to teach Dubliners for a third time, and seeing it has already been over three years since the last time I taught it, I am more than happy to. If we didn’t know each other in 2020 or if you had to miss the previous Joyce class, join this one. You will learn how to combine interior and exterior landscapes from a master and leave feeling creativity boil in your blood, color dancing in your imagination. That’s the effect of Joyce. (My only hope is that we’ll get to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man next!)Been there, done that, and you don’t wanna spend October without reading and writing? Stay tuned! I have a few classes in the making, and I want to decide with you which one to pick!
Mrs. Dalloway & The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
8 PM Tuesday November 14, 21, 28, December 5, 12, 198 PM Thursday November 16, 23, 30, December 7, 14, 21We will close 2023 with a 6-week course on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. It comes with a twist: As Woolf takes us through the streets of London and through the perspectives of her characters, in her signature grace and wit, we’ll complement our reading with selections from The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud, Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature by Angus Fletcher, and Proust Was A Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer. Virginia and Leonard Woolf read Freud’s works, and printed them through their independent publishing house, Hogarth Press. In other words, we will read what Woolf read when she was writing her novel, and by combining readings from literature, psychology, and neuroscience, we will see art, intuition, and science working side by side, which I know will inspire you to write your own stream-of-consciousness story!
Looking forward to seeing you soon!
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