Writers on Writing: Kyle Boelte
Monday, March 9, 2015, 7:00 pm to 9:45 pm
Kyle Boelte reads from and discusses his new memoir The Beautiful Unseen (Soft Skull Press), which is about fading memory, his brother's suicide and San Francisco's fog. "Boelte's sure-footed prose makes The Beautiful Unseen a lovely journey. And a moving one," the Los Angeles Book Review writes. Free.
Location:
Humanities Building, Humanities Auditorium
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Creative Writing Department
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Creative Writing Department
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Phone:
415-338-1891
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Boelte was born in a small town on the high plains of Kansas, grew up near Denver and moved to San Francisco as an adult. A finalist for the Annie Dillard Award, his writing has appeared in Orion Magazine, Full Stop, Sierra, The Rumpus, The Millions and High Country News.
The Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public on Mondays this semester. Taught by Peter Orner, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.