Heather Christle’s The Crying Book: A Literary Exploration of Tears and Emotion

Description

This class investigates how a writer creates a book-length collage. Called a “symphonic work of nonfiction,” The Crying Book explores “the phenomenon of tears” from many angles, in discrete sections that accumulate into a book-length meditation. We will look at the writing in particular sections, the patterns and juxtapositions, and the structure of the book as a whole. We will also begin our own long meditations on subjects that fascinate us.

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