Join us on Fri. March 7 @ 10:30 AM (EST) for this semester's kickoff of RU's Inside the Writers House with author Joe Hill.
Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award/Eisner Award/Locus Award/British Fantasy Award winning author of The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, and Strange Weather. Much of his work has been adapted for film and television. His second novel, Horns, was made into a cult horror-comedy starring Daniel Radcliffe; his third novel, NOS4A2, was adapted for television by AMC, and featured Zachary Quinto; the movie version of his short story The Black Phone starred Ethan Hawke. He created the long-running comic book Locke & Key (with artist Gabriel Rodriguez), which was turned into a hit TV series on Netflix. Hills other works include the collection Full Throttle, featuring the story "In The Tall Grass," co-written with Stephen King, turned into a feature film for Netflix, and several graphic novels, Basketful of Heads, Plunge, Sea Dogs, Dying is Easy, and Wraith, which continues the story of NOS4A2s Charlie Manx. The New York Times described his work as "[A] wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty... Valentine from hell.
"Inside the Writers House" invites you into the homes, offices, and writing rooms of acclaimed authors, providing an inside eye on their working life and a level of intimacy often lacking in more formal settings. An obvious reference to the televised Actor's Studio seminar, "Writers House" interviews are likewise craft focused, but strive for an earthy spontaneity unencumbered by prepared queries and index card cues. Visits are conversational and plastic, largely molded by (and dependent on) audience questions. In addition to the conversation, most visits include short readings, writing prompts, show-and-tell sessions, and house/apt tours. Chances are you'll meet their pets (and look inside their refrigerators).
In the last eight years, students have visited with almost 200 authors in dozens of different cities. Internationally, they've talked with Eoin Colfer in Dublin, Mariana Enriquez in Buenos Aires, Yewande Omotoso in Johannesburg, Garth Greenwell in Sofia, Karin Tidbeck in Stockholm, Kevin Barry in Sligo, and Daisy Johnson in Oxford. Stateside, they've talked with Maurice Ruffin in New Orleans, Karen Russell in Portland, Chigozie Obioma in Lincoln, Tommy Orange in Oakland, Susan Orlean in Los Angeles, Tom Perrotta in Belmont, Jeff VanderMeer in Tallahassee, and Eowyn Ivey in Palmer, Alaska (as well as more local, across-the-river luminaries like Jennifer Egan, Victor LaValle, Lev Grossman, and André Aciman).