Workshop with Scholar of Note Lauren Oyler

American Library is doing an evening on "How to Criticize".

I  have reserved 3 places

Wednesday 15 November at 19h00 CET
Free and open to the public

The first step to becoming a better writer is becoming a better reader.

What makes a piece of writing "good"?

Who determines that criteria, and does it even matter?

https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/oyler23/

Celebrated critic and Scholar of Note Lauren Oyler will lead a ninety-minute session devoted to criticism. After preliminary discussion of her work and an audience Q&A, Oyler will engage participants in an exploration of why we love what we love and hate what we hate.

Using texts from Renata Adler, Patricia Lockwood, Susan Sontag, and others, we'll discuss how to respond critically and creatively to others' work, and we'll learn reading techniques that will help us become more attentive, imaginative, and, occasionally, even harsher readers and writers.