WRITING AS PRACTICE: THE USES OF SPIRITUALITY IN THE CREATIVE LIFE
10 – 11:15 AM—Literary Discussion
WRITING AS PRACTICE: THE USES OF SPIRITUALITY IN THE CREATIVE LIFE
“Writing is a form of prayer,” Franz Kafka once wrote. Both rituals require contemplation, discipline and solitude; both are aimed at transcendence. This panel will look at how a sense of spirituality informs the creative process—and how the creative process comprises a kind of spirituality in and of itself. Charles Baxter, whose most recent essay collection, Wonderlands, discusses craft and fantasy, will be in conversation with Olivia Clare Friedman, whose new poetry collection, An Arm Fixed to a Wing, explores the desire to recover awe in the everyday. Joining them will be Rodger Kamenetz, whose Seeing into the Life of Things offers us rituals to help return the sacred to our lives. Miles Harvey, author of The Registry of Forgotten Objects, will moderate.
Hotel Monteleone, Queen Anne Ballroom, $10 or LitPass or VIP Pass.
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