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Imagined Worlds: The Short Fiction of Carter, O’Connor, and Warner with Elizabeth Howard

$135

3 Sessions

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3 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 2 to December 4, 2024

The Center for Fiction

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Meeting Dates:
10/2, 11/6, 12/4
In Person at The Center for Fiction

This reading and discussion group will explore the writing of two British authors, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Angela Carter, as well as the writing of Flannery O’Connor, considered one of the United States’s most gifted writers.

Carter’s stories are feminist and picaresque works brimming with magical realism. O’Connor died at age thirty-nine yet left a large body of work. Engaging and delightful, Sylvia Townsend Warner has been considered one of the most talented and well-respected British authors of the twentieth century. All three were unique, independent women who imagined characters and situations that reflect particular places and ordinary lives.

What to read in advance of the first meeting:

Flannery O’Connor: “Wildcat” and ”The Geranium”
Sylvia Townsend Warner: “The Inside-Out” and ”The Candles”
Angela Carter: “Black Venus”and ”The Bloody Chamber”

Book List:

Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter
The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
The Music at Long Verney by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Capacity: 20

Led by

Elizabeth Howard

Elizabeth Howard

Elizabeth Howard is the producer and host of the Short Fuse Podcast, conversations with artists, writers, musicians, and others whose art reveals our communities through their lens and stirs us to seek change. Her articles related to communication and marketing have appeared in European Communications, Investor Relations, Law Firm Marketing & Profit Report, Communication World, The Strategist, and the New York Law Journal, among others. Her books include Queen Anne’s Lace and Wild Blackberry Pie (Thornwillow Press, 2011), A Day with Bonefish Joe (David Godine, 2015) and Ned O’Gorman: A Glance Back (Easton Studio Press, 2016). Elizabeth Howard lives in New York City.

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