An Evening with Novelist Jacqueline Holland in Conversation with Leading Story Scientist Angus Fletcher

March 23, 2023

7:00PM - 8:30PM

Gramercy Books 2424 East Main Street Bexley , OH 43209

Add to Calendar 2023-03-23 19:00:00 2023-03-23 20:30:00 An Evening with Novelist Jacqueline Holland in Conversation with Leading Story Scientist Angus Fletcher Join Jacqueline Holland and her breathtaking first novel, The God of Endings, in conversation with leading story scientist Angus Fletcher. Registration is on Eventbrite, closing at 6:00 pm on the day of the event. The purchase of the book waives the $5 admission fee. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH is Gramercy’s Community Partner for this program. Combining brilliant prose with breathtaking suspense, The God of Endings is a meditation on the meaning of family, love and art and serves as a larger exploration of the human condition in all its complexity, asking us the most fundamental question: is life in this world a gift or a curse? Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather’s long-ago decision to make her immortal like himself. Now in 1984, Collette finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home, the return of a stalking presence from her past and her own mysteriously growing hunger. Jacqueline Holland is a recent graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Kansas. Her short fiction has been published in Hotel Amerika, Flash Fiction Magazine and Big Fiction Magazine. She was selected as a top-twenty-five finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers, as well as Sequestrum Magazine's New Writers Award. Angus Fletcher is the author of Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories. He is a professor of story science at Ohio State’s Project Narrative, the world’s leading academic think-tank for the study of stories. He has dual degrees in neuroscience and literature, received his PhD from Yale, taught Shakespeare at Stanford, and has published two books and dozens of peer-reviewed academic articles on the scientific workings of novels, poetry, film and theater. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has done story-consulting for projects for Sony, Disney, the BBC, Amazon, PBS and Universal and is the author/presenter of the Audible/Great Courses Guide to Screenwriting. Purchase tickets to the event here. Gramercy Books 2424 East Main Street Bexley , OH 43209 OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2023-03-23 19:00:00 2023-03-23 20:30:00 An Evening with Novelist Jacqueline Holland in Conversation with Leading Story Scientist Angus Fletcher Join Jacqueline Holland and her breathtaking first novel, The God of Endings, in conversation with leading story scientist Angus Fletcher. Registration is on Eventbrite, closing at 6:00 pm on the day of the event. The purchase of the book waives the $5 admission fee. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH is Gramercy’s Community Partner for this program. Combining brilliant prose with breathtaking suspense, The God of Endings is a meditation on the meaning of family, love and art and serves as a larger exploration of the human condition in all its complexity, asking us the most fundamental question: is life in this world a gift or a curse?  Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather’s long-ago decision to make her immortal like himself. Now in 1984, Collette finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home, the return of a stalking presence from her past and her own mysteriously growing hunger. Jacqueline Holland is a recent graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Kansas. Her short fiction has been published in Hotel Amerika, Flash Fiction Magazine and Big Fiction Magazine. She was selected as a top-twenty-five finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers, as well as Sequestrum Magazine's New Writers Award.  Angus Fletcher is the author of Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories. He is a professor of story science at Ohio State’s Project Narrative, the world’s leading academic think-tank for the study of stories. He has dual degrees in neuroscience and literature, received his PhD from Yale, taught Shakespeare at Stanford, and has published two books and dozens of peer-reviewed academic articles on the scientific workings of novels, poetry, film and theater. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has done story-consulting for projects for Sony, Disney, the BBC, Amazon, PBS and Universal and is the author/presenter of the Audible/Great Courses Guide to Screenwriting. Purchase tickets to the event here.   Gramercy Books 2424 East Main Street Bexley , OH 43209 Department of English english@osu.edu America/New_York public

Join Jacqueline Holland and her breathtaking first novel, The God of Endings, in conversation with leading story scientist Angus Fletcher.

Graphic of the book, Holland and Fletcher

Registration is on Eventbrite, closing at 6:00 pm on the day of the event. The purchase of the book waives the $5 admission fee.

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH is Gramercy’s Community Partner for this program.

Combining brilliant prose with breathtaking suspense, The God of Endings is a meditation on the meaning of family, love and art and serves as a larger exploration of the human condition in all its complexity, asking us the most fundamental question: is life in this world a gift or a curse?

Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather’s long-ago decision to make her immortal like himself. Now in 1984, Collette finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home, the return of a stalking presence from her past and her own mysteriously growing hunger.

Jacqueline Holland is a recent graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Kansas. Her short fiction has been published in Hotel Amerika, Flash Fiction Magazine and Big Fiction Magazine. She was selected as a top-twenty-five finalist for Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers, as well as Sequestrum Magazine's New Writers Award.

Angus Fletcher is the author of Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories. He is a professor of story science at Ohio State’s Project Narrative, the world’s leading academic think-tank for the study of stories. He has dual degrees in neuroscience and literature, received his PhD from Yale, taught Shakespeare at Stanford, and has published two books and dozens of peer-reviewed academic articles on the scientific workings of novels, poetry, film and theater. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has done story-consulting for projects for Sony, Disney, the BBC, Amazon, PBS and Universal and is the author/presenter of the Audible/Great Courses Guide to Screenwriting.

Purchase tickets to the event here.

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