Literary Lecture: Flash Fiction, Asceticism and Pleasure

This year’s OSU Zacher Lecture in the Humanities will feature Merve Emre, writer for "The New Yorker," "The Atlantic" and more. She’ll discuss “miniaturism,” also known as "flash fiction" or "the short-short story." This emerges as an aesthetic strategy for focusing on the disciplined study of grammar over figuration. In this genre, grammar often is inseparable from gender, and gender is inseparable from forms of literary labor that are regularly trivialized, devalued and rendered invisible. Through the promotion of too close reading, or reading at the smallest scale possible, miniaturism reveals the unappreciated relationship between literary asceticism and literary pleasure.

This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Limited parking is available at the Faculty Club- come inside and pick up a pass from the front desk. Other parking is availalbe at the North Ohio Union Garage. Find more about parking through CampusParc.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Faculty Club, 181 Oval Drive South, Columbus, United States