Probing Fiction from the Self/ A conversation with Alejandro de Acosta and Sara Jaffe
Channel: PNCA Live Video
Date: 04/01/2023

In this talk we'll set out from an examination of passages from Sara and Alejandro's works in progress and arrive at more general considerations on, among other matters, the question of writing fictional prose from memory, personal history, research, and dreams. We'll talk practically about how to seize what seems most fresh and relevant in that material, differences and productive tensions between remembered or nonfictional material and invented scenes, and what idioms and phrases are most appropriate for such a task. We'll also reflect on how remembered people and places become characters and settings, and pertinent ethical questions for the writer.