Antonya Nelson: True Grist – Material, and its Milling (January 2017)

“Stories don’t happen to people who can’t tell them,” claims Alan Gurganus‘ oldest living Confederate widow. Is it so? Antonya Nelson’s lecture, delivered in January 2017, is a meditation on the process of finding—in life, literature, and lore, from fact, fiction, fairy tale—and using the stuff of stories.