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Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Conference Schedule 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Reliably Unreliable: Writing Unreliable Narrators with Tod Goldberg
Date(s): Friday, February 23, 2018, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Location: Basha, Old Main (view map)
Type(s): Presentation
Genre and Form(s): Fiction, Mixed Genre
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About the Session
Some of the most iconic narrators in the history of literature have been nothing short of abject liars. Huckleberry Finn? Totally unreliable. Nick Carraway? Delusional. Briony Tallis? Humbert Humbert? Both Nick AND Amy Dunne? Con artists, one and all. In this session, we'll examine the art of deception, how writers can make their narrators—in any point of view—unreliable without alienating their readers in the process.