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Friday, April 29 • 11:45am - 12:45pm
2J: Building the World of the Novel: A Conversation with Jennifer Haigh and Joanna Rakoff FULL

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A novel unfolds in its own universe, a distinct microcosm with its own geography and geology, language and customs, historical and political context. Novelists Jennifer Haigh and Joanna Rakoff will discuss techniques for bringing this world into being: using concrete detail to evoke a landscape you know intimately, or not at all; the role of research, the rewards and perils of time travel, the importance of accuracy, and the pleasures of making it all up.
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Jennifer Haigh

Author, HEAT AND LIGHT
Jennifer Haigh’s sixth book, Heat and Light – her first novel in five years – will be published by Ecco in May 2016. In it, she returns to Bakerton, the Pennsylvania mining town at the center of two earlier books – a community now embroiled in the controversy over fracking... Read More →
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Joanna Rakoff

Author, MY SALINGER YEAR
Joanna Rakoff is the author of the novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction and the Elle Readers Prize, and the bestselling memoir My Salinger Year. She’s written for Oprah Daily, The Atlantic, the New York Times, and many other publications. Her new memoir... Read More →

Friday April 29, 2016 11:45am - 12:45pm EDT
Whittier Room
  Block 2, Discussion Class, Fiction, Non-Fiction

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