The best way to learn is study, discuss, and practice.  Join us as we travel through literature and film to improve the writing craft.

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Author Biographies

• Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle – November 8, 2020
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou – November 3, 2019
• Can You Ever Forgive Me by Lee Israel – July 7, 2019
• The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography by Margaret Lane – April 8, 2018
• Persepolis by Marijane Satrapi – December 3, 2017
• Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford – August 6, 2017
• Shakespeare, The Biography by Peter Ackroyd – April 2, 2017

Writing Process & Advice

• Atomic Habits by James Clear – January 3, 2021
• Writing Life by Annie Dillard – May 5, 2019
• Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg – November 4, 2018
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott – September 9, 2018
• On Writing by Eudora Welty – October 1, 2017
• On Writing by Stephen King – June 4, 2017

Learn From a Prize Winner

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – July 3, 2021
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead – April 4, 2021
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer – February 2, 2020
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen – Part 1 – January 6, 2019, Part 2 – February 3, 2019
• Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Special Fiction Edition Entry) – July 1, 2018

Short Story Discussions

• The Veldt by Ray Bradbury – September 11, 2021
• The Outing by James Baldwin – July 13, 2021
• Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin – July 6, 2021
• The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant – May 22, 2021
• Poetry by Pablo Neruda – April 17, 2021 – part 2
• Poetry by Pablo Neruda – April 10, 2021 – part 1
• Sticks by George Saunders – March 27, 2021
• The Devil in America by Kai Ashante Wilson – February 27, 2021
• Cathedral by Raymond Carver – January 30, 2021
• The Hanging Stranger by Philip K. Dick – December 13, 2020
• Passion by Alice Munro – July 31, 2020
• The Man Who Was Almost a Man by Richard Wright – July 17, 2020
• Charles by Shirley Jackson – July 10, 2020
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor – May 22, 2020
• In a Pandemic, How Do You Make the Case for an Art Emergency? By Corinne Segal (essay) – May 1, 2020
• Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian – April 24, 2020
• How to Become a Writer by Lorrie Moore – April 17, 2020
• Lamb to Slaughter by Roald Dahl – April 10, 2020

Film Discussions – We follow the Save the Cat Beat Sheet Formula

• Boyhood – September 19, 2021
• Three Identical Strangers (Documentary) – July 27, 2021
• My Octopus Teacher (Documentary) – July 20, 2021
• Dolemite is My Name – May 16, 2021
• The Booksellers (Documentary) – April 18, 2021
• Il Postino – March 28, 2021
• The Big Sleep – February 21, 2021
• Kubo & the Two Strings – January 17, 2021
• Stranger Than Fiction – November 29, 2020
• Singing in the Rain – July 30, 2020
• Adaptation – July 23, 2020
• Who Is Afraid of Virigina Wolf – July 16, 2020
• Trumbo – July 2, 2020
• Shirley – June 18, 2020