Bob Proehl, Week One’s prose writer-in-residence, believes that sometimes the supernatural — magic, ghosts, aliens — may unlock the most emotionally honest elements of a story. Bob Proehl “Nobody wants to read a book that only
Even on a micro-level, the very act of reading — of trusting an author, of connecting with a protagonist, of discovering the secrets cached between sentences — is a collaborative exercise. At Chautauqua, a community
About a minute into his keynote address for the 2019 Writers’ Festival, poet Jericho Brown began to sing. Punctuating a speech about the cathartic, entangled nature of joy and poetry with references to T.S. Eliot and