Tom Drury – Dialogue Lab: On Hearing the Voices of Characters (January 2024)

Tom Drury describes his lecture as “about letting our characters talk—to each other, to themselves, and, most usefully, to the writer, revealing who they are by what they say.” Drawing on found texts from field recordings and a wide range of novels and stories, Drury covers a brief history of dialogue, the problem of rules, then ways of disagreeing, direct and indirect dialogue, and all-dialogue novels and stories.