92nd Street Y
About UsSupport the YY BlogJoin Our eNews
My ProfileShopping CartShopping Cart  0 item(s) 
By InterestBy ProgramBy AgeBy Calendar
Place and Prose: Writing Nature, Writing Culture  
Place and Prose: Writing Nature, Writing CulturePlace is an important component in all writing. "Place-based" literature is increasingly recognized as a vibrant and evolving genre, one that intersects with memoir, environmental nonfiction, nature writing and cultural criticism. In this non-fiction seminar/workshop, we will examine how place works—just as character or action does—to bring writing to life. We will look at place-based essays by John McPhee, Annie Dillard and Mike Davis, among others, with an eye toward how they use place to create fuller, more relevant work. Discussion of each week's reading leads into workshopping of students' own non-fiction pieces.

No manuscript submission required.
First Session: Sun, Mar 8, 2009, 2:00pm-5:00pm
Sessions: 8
Instructor: Ginger Strand
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street Directions
Code: TP3LS11-03
Price: $350.00
   Email This to a Friend
No Longer Available
This class is no longer available.
Brief Biography
Ginger Strand, a former fellow at the Behrman Center for the Humanities at Princeton, is the author of the novel Flight and the non-fiction work Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies. Her essays and fiction have appeared in Harper's, The Believer, The Iowa Review and Orion, where she is a contributing editor.
Contact Us | Privacy Statement | Policies | Site Map | Help | Press Resources
© 2009 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association
All Rights Reserved. Click here for directions
Web Accessibility and the 92nd Street Y