Writing a Sense of Place with David Galef NEW

Setting is crucial in fiction yet all too often gets short shrift. Where your characters live can determine everything from nightlife to mating habits. Find out how to animate the backdrop of your narrative with verve, local color, and pizzazz. We'll use David Galef's own recently published novel, "Where I Went Wrong," available online for $19.95, as the class text.

“David Galef’s "Where I Went Wrong" is a novel of striving, failure, and more striving—lovely, deft and bittersweet. It’s the story fading industrial Jersey has been waiting for.”
—D. T. Max of The New Yorker