#KateBriggs24 Meeting Info and Part Two Schedule
Hello everyone! First, I’m looking forward to seeing some of you on our video call this Saturday, May 11th, at 12pm PDT, 3pm EDT, and 8pm BST.
Click here to join our meeting.
If the meeting goes longer than an hour, click here for the second part.
As always, everyone is welcome to join in, no matter how much of the reading you have or haven’t done. The meeting will be informal, a chance to chat with one another and share thoughts and impressions of our reading. Come join us!
Second, if you’d like to share, please tell us where you are with your reading! Have you finished The Little Art and Preparation for the Novel? What are your impressions, thoughts, and/or feelings? Don’t miss Kasey’s great comment from my last newsletter.
Finally, we’d like to share our plans for Part Two of the project.
We’d like to spend from the end of May through July reading a book about This Little Art and one of Kate Briggs’s smaller projects, Entertaining Ideas, along with the book that inspired it, The Long View. Here are links to the books:
A Table Made Again for the First Time: On Kate Briggs’s This Little Art. This book is a collection of essays and interviews on translation and on Briggs’s work, including an interview with Briggs herself.
Entertaining Ideas (The Long View) by Kate Briggs. From the publisher’s website: this book is “an effort to perform a ‘good reading’ of Elizabeth Jane Howard’s The Long View (1956), and to think about what a ‘good’ short reading of a long novel might mean, what it might look like or read like.”
The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard. This novel is the source of inspiration for Entertaining Ideas; it “presents a revealing portrait of a marriage -- that of Antonia and Conrad Fleming. Told through Antonia's eyes, it is a gut-wrenching and extraordinary look at marriage -- both from the outside in and from present to pass.”
Below is a PDF of our reading schedule.
We would LOVE for you to join us for Part Two! Feel free to join us for all or part of it and to read at your own pace and in whatever fashion you choose.
In August, for Part 3, we will move onto Briggs’s novel The Long Form and her translation of Roland’s Barthes’s lecture course How to Live Together.
You can find a LOT more information on the whole #KateBriggs24 project at Kim’s website.
Talk to you soon!
YAY for Part Two! This sounds perfect!
I would like to continue, but will probably only read The Long View for part two if that is acceptable. I prefer not to deal with overseas book sources since I have had too many problems in the past and can't find a U.S. outlet for Entertaining Ideas. The other work does not interest me. I also prefer digital texts and do almost all reading on tablets. The large text in The Preparation of the Novel was readable but the notes were beyond me.
I still have not shared much on the the first two books but what little I can offer can be integrated into remarks when we get to The Long Form and How to Live Together.