Today&#8217;s craft talk—by Torrey Peters on &#8220;Strategic Opacity&#8221;— was recorded at the 2024 Tin House summer writers workshop. Peters explores the elements in works of fiction that actually don&#8217;t make sense—from William Shakespeare to Elena Ferrante —and how, paradoxically, it is these very elements, the unexplainable ones, that can make a work of art great. Given that most actual humans make nonsensical choices and can&#8217;t be fully known as people, Peters discusses how we might write lifelike characters who don&#8217;t make sense either—but in a strategic way—writing them so that they begin to feel like the real people all around us: &#8220;the friends who make strange and frustrating decisions in their worst interests, the parents who act with sudden arbitrariness, the lovers who just won&#8217;t accept the care they need and want.&#8221; Peters then looks at the ways this revelation has deeply changed her own work.
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Finally, here is the <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/books-for-torrey-peters-craft-talk?new-list-page=true">BookShop</a> for today&#8217;s talk, which includes many of the books mentioned.
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