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The Beverly Hills Literary Escape
STILL WRITING - STILL READING
Saturday Keynote - Michael Cunningham
Sunday Keynote - Tobias Wolff
Other Authors Include: Carol Rifka Brunt, Chitra Divakaruni, Lauren Groff, Alice Laplante, John Burnham Schwartz, Dani Shapiro, Marisa Silver, Meg Wolitzer, Louise Friedman (author/moderator) and David L. Ulin (author/moderator).
"It is my hope that - whether you're a writer or not - this book will help you to discover or rediscover the qualities necessary for a creative life. We are all unsure of ourselves. Every one of us walking the planet wonders, secretly, if we are getting it wrong. We stumble along. We love and we lose. At times, we find unexpected strength, and at other times, we succumb to our fears. We are impatient. We want to know what's around the corner, and the writing life won't offer us this. It forces us into the here and now. There is only this moment, when we put pen to page."
What Dani Shapiro calls us to--both writers and readers--is a life of courage. It is this willingness to confront the uncertainty and fragility of our own stories that also draws us to literature, which, in the words of Faulkner, has the ability to, "pierce our separateness, to show us that, in this business of being human, we are not alone." This year's Beverly Hills Literary Escape celebrates not only the writers who have the courage and the talent to be "Still Writing", but also the readers and book club members that are "Still Reading"--giving a life beyond the page to the writing by engaging with it deeply and sharing it with others.
Each of our featured authors for 2013 has written work that has touched our hearts, pushed us to look at the world with more empathy, and led us toward a deeper sense of self.
Julie Robinson
Literary Affairs
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LocationThe Beverly Wilshire Hotel
9500 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
United States
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