For anyone in Seattle, Ann Powers says she's "dipping into the teaching thing Saturday with a
seminar at Richard Hugo House. Here's the description:



WRITING POPULAR CULTURE

In our media-saturated age, mass culture is to writers what
nature was to the Romantics: the stuff we breathe. Novelists Jonathan Lethem
and Michael Chabon, memoirists Chuck Klosterman and Sarah Vowell, and even
poets like Stephen Burt find essential inspiration in rock and hip hop
music, comic books, television and radio. And of course, there are those who
call themselves critics - from Greil Marcus to the late Pauline Kael - who
not only define tastes but help explain the world through their analyses.
Yet writing about and through popular culture is not just a matter of
reference-dropping. In this seminar, we'll look at several different
approaches, including memoir, fiction, and reviews, and challenge ourselves
to connect with the pulse of the popular through exercises in autobiography,
"creative" writing, and cultural analysis.



Instructor Ann Powers is the author of Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America,
co-author (with the artist) of Tori Amos: Piece By Piece, and co-editor of
Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap. She has been a curator
at Experience Music Project and a critic for the New York Times, and has
freelanced for most major music publications. Her work has been widely
anthologized, most recently in the Da Capo Press anthology Best Music
Writing 2005. She is currently a senior critic for Blender magazine.



The class runs from 1 to 5 p.m and costs $75. There are only five students
enrolled at the moment so we can have a good, intimate time."


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(p.s. check out ann's new blog, eensy weensy  ¶ 10/20/2005 06:45:00 PM