Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 4 pm at Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue, 1461 Blanshard Street, Victoria V8W 2J3,听
Lee Henderson听will take a look at the life and work of the great 20th century Jewish writer听Franz Kafka听and his relationship to Tanakh, the tales of Rabbi Nachman, the Midrash, Kaballah, as well as contemporary secular political ideologies. Entry by donation; light refreshments served.听 Information: [email protected].听 This is the third presentation in Alternative Realities in Religion series.
Lee Henderson is an Associate Professor in UVic鈥檚 Writing Department. Prior to coming to Victoria, he lived in 91原创, where he worked in the visual arts, published fiction, and taught creative writing at UBC. He has led writing workshops for the Summer Literary Seminar in Montreal, for the Banff Centre for the Arts, and for U of T鈥檚 online writing program. Before making books and stories, Lee made cookies, hamburgers, invoices, ad copy and once, long ago, made the animation for artist Tony Oursler鈥檚 video for Sonic Youth鈥檚 song Tunic; and once, even longer ago than that, played in a John Cage 鈥榟appening鈥� at the Banff Centre.
Lee has published two award-winning books with Penguin Canada 鈥� the story collection, The Broken Record Technique, and the novel, The Man Game, which won the BC Book Prize and the 91原创 Book Prize in 2009. His essay on language extinction and corporate English was published in the anthology, Finding the Words, edited by Jared Bland. Lee鈥檚 fiction and art writing are regularly published in The Walrus and Border Crossings magazines, and other short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and journals.
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