Master Class: How to Read Like a Writer with Rabih Alameddine and special guest Rebecca Makkai
Master Class: How to Read Like a Writer with Rabih Alameddine and special guest Rebecca Makkai
3 Sessions: Sundays, March 2, 9, 16
4:00-6:00pm ET
Rabih Alameddine
20 students
Rabih Alameddine is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, most recently The Wrong End of the Telescope, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, which Publisher’s Weekly called, “profound and wonderful,” The Angel of History, An Unnecessary Woman, a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, the winner of the California Book Award, and a Washington Post, Kirkus, and NPR Best Book of 2014, The Hakawati, I, The Divine, and Koolaids. His work has been awarded the Lannan Prize for Fiction, The Jon Dos Passos Prize for Literature, among others.
There is no better method of learning how to write than studying the works of masters. Rebecca Makkai is one of our best, and in this three-part seminar, we will study her novel, The Great Believers. In the first two sessions, we will read this incredible book closely, paying attention to the language used, to diction, plot, characters, style, structure. In the third session, we will continue our discussion, after which Makkai joins our group, and we get to ask questions about the choices she made, the techniques she employed, and so on.
Workshop Highlights:
Read better
Write better
Live better
To apply for a scholarship, please fill out this form by Friday, February 21.
Rabih Alameddine is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, most recently The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic, 2021), winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, which Publisher’s Weekly called, “profound and wonderful,” The Angel of History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016), An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press, 2014), a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, the winner of the California Book Award, and a Washington Post, Kirkus, and NPR Best Book of 2014, The Hakawati (Knopf, 2008), I, The Divine (W.W. Norton, 2001), and Koolaids (Picador, 1998). He is also the author of a book of short stories,The Perv (Picador, 1999.) Alameddine received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.
