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Jack Livings is author of
The Dog, which was awarded the PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Rome Prize for Literature, and was included on best book of the year lists by the
Times Literary Supplement and
Best American Short Stories and have been awarded two Pushcart Prizes. His first novel is
The Blizzard Party.
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The Middle East Institute s Arts and Culture Center and the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center at George Mason University are pleased to host acclaimed Syrian author
Khaled Khalifa for a talk about his most recent novel,
Death is Hard Work, and how the Syrian uprisings have impacted his writing and the country he calls home.
The talk is the fourth in a writers series marking the 10th anniversary of the Arab uprisings. Launched this past December,
Ten Years After The Arab Spring has featured the voices of award-winning writers from the Middle East reflecting on the past decade through the lens of their writings and personal experiences.
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“A Swim in a Pond in the Rain In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life,” By George Saunders. Random House, January 2021. 410 pages.
I am reading George Saunders’ “A Swim in a Pond in the Rain in Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life” with 15 other people, mostly on the West Coast, mostly strangers. Our MeetUp group chose this book on a whim while still reading contemporary short stories from collections like Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s “The Best American Short Stories.”
Who would have thought that working through Ivan Turgenev’s “The Singers,” written in 1852, would be exhilarating? Good short stories are hard to write and often quite hard to fully appreciate; more so when stylized according to norms that seem archaic to us. A short story is a world unto itself, full of life, or as Saunders says, a ceremony. Central to that ceremony is the heart of the story. Entering a stor