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June Meeting "The Power of Place: The Role of Landscape Narrative" with Author Deanne Stillman

  • Saturday, June 01, 2013
  • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Rancho Mirage Library Community Room, 71-100 Highway 111, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
Deanne StillmanThe Power of Place: The Role of Landscape in Narrative



 How does place influence story?  How does it shape character? Do not miss the final meeting of our season to gain in-depth insight from a highly accomplished writer on the importance of landscape in your story.

Much of Deanne's work is set in the Mojave, and in this talk, she'll discuss its role in her writing - and her life.  She'll also talk about how any landscape can inform narrative, whether it's the interior of a car or the mountains or a big city.

Deanne Stillman is a widely published, critically acclaimed writer. Her latest book is Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History, an amazon editors' pick for July, a Rolling Stone "must-read for the summer," and praised in the Denver Post, Oregonian, Psychology Today, Tucson Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, High Country News, and elsewhere. She is also the author of Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West, an LA Times "best book
08" and winner of the California Book Award silver medal for nonfiction. The late Tony Hillerman called it "remarkable" and Michael Blake (Dances with Wolves) calls it "stunning." It's currently under option for a film starring Wendie Malick. In addition, Deanne wrote Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave, an LA Times "best book 01." Hunter Thompson
called it "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer," and it is included in many college nonfiction courses.
 
Deanne is a member of the core faculty at the UC Riverside-Palm Desert Low Residency MFA Creative Writing Program and writes the Letter from the West column for www.truthdig.com.  For more information, see www.deannestillman.com.

Contact person for this meeting:  

Sunny Simon, VP, PSWG Programs,
PROGRAMS.PSWG@GMAIL.COM

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