Rachel Pastan
Biography
Rachel Pastan is the author of four novels, most recently In the Field. Based on the life of Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock, the novel was selected for the National Book Foundation’s 2022 Science + Literature award. Pastan’s 2014 novel Alena was named an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review. She is also the author of two other books, Lady of the Snakes and This Side of Married.
Events
Fear and Loathing and Sometimes Even Joy: Getting Emotion on the Page
Description
Strong feeling is often what drives us to write. We want our reader to experience the sadness or outrage, the delight or sense of betrayal we feel when thinking about a fictional (or nonfictional) situation. But how do we do that, exactly? How do we tell a story that’s not cold, but that’s not...
Planning A Novel: Making a Map and Avoiding Monsters
Description
Sometimes a short story can be drafted in a great surge of inspiration, but a novel is a different kind of literary beast. How do we prepare ourselves to keep a story going over several hundred pages? What do we need to know in advance, and what might we hope to discover along the way? In this...
