Autofiction and the Examined Life

California Writers Club - SF Peninsula Presents...

Scott Hutchins
Autofiction and the Examined Life

In this talk, novelist and teacher Scott Hutchins will ask us to consider the following question: Is our everyday humdrum life actually fertile soil for great art? Autofiction—the most significant reconfiguration of the relationship between reader, writer, and text of the past 20 years—offers compelling, sometimes counterintuitive answers.

Hutchins will introduce foundational concepts of autofiction, dispelling a few of the common objections, and will discuss some of its major practitioners, including Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and international bestseller Karl Ove Knausgaard. At the end of the presentation, we will have strategies for reconsidering the possibilities of our stories and ourselves.
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Scott Hutchins’s novel A Working Theory of Love was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, as well as a San Francisco Chronicle and Salon Best Book of the year. A Working Theory of Love has been translated into nine languages. Hutchins’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, Catamaran, Five Chapters, the Arkansas International, the New York Times, San Francisco magazine and Esquire, and has been set to improvisational jazz. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Hutchins teaches Creative Writing and English at Stanford University.

Meeting Location: Sequoia Yacht Club, 441 Seaport Court, Redwood City, CA. Meeting fee: $15 non-members/ $10 members. Your first meeting is free. To register, go to https://www.cwc-sfpeninsula.org/upcoming-meetings