Brian Teare – Toward a Literature Not Made of Literature: The Notebook as Plot and Process (January 2024)

“As the literal ground of writing,” says Brian Teare, “the notebook can be used as a kind of incubator for literature; as a private and informal space, it can also be used to resist the ideological demands of literary form. Teare’s lecture defines a notebook poetics both in terms of how the notebook shows up in novels, and in terms of how a notebook can be used as part of the writing process and remain inherent in the final product, offering poets and hybrid genre writers a way to mine their own minds and lives.