Panel

Presenter Information

Elizabeth Tallent
Larry McMurtry

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

18-3-1987 12:00 PM

End Date

18-3-1987 1:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 18, 1987, as part of the 18th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writers of the Purple Sage,” Larry McMurty and Elizabeth Tallent participate in the noon panel. The panelists discuss perceptions of West and open spaces, memories of growing up in open spaces, how landscape directs their work, social expectations connected to particular places, developing dynamic characters, completing the task of writing a short story, nostalgic writing about a romanticized West, regrets, writing across cultural and gender distinctions, their primary education, measuring success as a writer, and consciousness in writing.

Moderated by Dr. John Little, Founder of the UND Writers Conference.

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Panel

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 18, 1987, as part of the 18th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writers of the Purple Sage,” Larry McMurty and Elizabeth Tallent participate in the noon panel. The panelists discuss perceptions of West and open spaces, memories of growing up in open spaces, how landscape directs their work, social expectations connected to particular places, developing dynamic characters, completing the task of writing a short story, nostalgic writing about a romanticized West, regrets, writing across cultural and gender distinctions, their primary education, measuring success as a writer, and consciousness in writing.

Moderated by Dr. John Little, Founder of the UND Writers Conference.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1987/day2/3