Peter Turchi: Digression, Misdirection, and Asides: The Roast Beef Is the Story (July 2016)

Drawing upon passages from J. D. Salinger, Mark Twain, Jim Shepard, and Debra Eisenberg, and others, as well as an emblematic scene from Barry Levinson’s Diner, Peter Turchi’s lecture elucidates “the art of the left turn”—the virtues of strategic, skillful narrative digression.