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The Pleasures of a Miscellany

2025-09-18 19:00:00 2025-09-18 20:00:00 America/Chicago The Pleasures of a Miscellany This year's One Read book, Daniel Mason’s "North Woods," shares a lot of characteristics the literary form called the 'miscellany,' a sort of precursor to modern magazines, zines and websites. Join WWU English professor Matt Dube to learn about why people like miscellanies and try your hand at developing your own web-based version. Adults. Bring a laptop. Center for Human Performance, Room 101 - William Woods University, Fulton

Thursday, September 18
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-09-18 19:00:00 2025-09-18 20:00:00 America/Chicago The Pleasures of a Miscellany This year's One Read book, Daniel Mason’s "North Woods," shares a lot of characteristics the literary form called the 'miscellany,' a sort of precursor to modern magazines, zines and websites. Join WWU English professor Matt Dube to learn about why people like miscellanies and try your hand at developing your own web-based version. Adults. Bring a laptop. Center for Human Performance, Room 101 - William Woods University, Fulton

Center for Human Performance, Room 101

William Woods University, Fulton

This year's One Read book, Daniel Mason’s "North Woods," shares a lot of characteristics the literary form called the 'miscellany,' a sort of precursor to modern magazines, zines and websites. Join WWU English professor Matt Dube to learn about why people like miscellanies and try your hand at developing your own web-based version. Adults. Bring a laptop.

This year's One Read book, Daniel Mason’s "North Woods," shares a lot of characteristics with the literary form called the 'miscellany,' a publication that collected varied kinds of materials to amuse readers, something like the precursor to modern magazines, zines and websites. Join William Woods University English professor Matt Dube to learn about why people like miscellanies and try your hand at developing your own web-based version. 

Adults. Bring a laptop.

Find out more about One Read here.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | One Read | Featured | Books & Authors |

TAGS: | Writing |

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