Memory is the writer's raw material and the very foundation of identity. But do we know anything, truly, about how memory works? This craft talk will look at how novelists, neurologists, and historians have understood memory as practice and as process, and what they might teach us about working with its vagaries.
Parul Sehgal is a critic-at-large at the New York Times. Previously, she was a staff writer at The New Yorker and a book critic at the Times. She has won awards for her criticism from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the New York Press Club, and the National Book Critics Circle. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at New York University.
This event is colloquium credit eligible.
Slonim SLON Living Room / Stone Room
Open to the public
/ Thursday