Gregg Hurwitz, the New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan X series and a storyteller whose work spans many mediums and genres, in conversation with Stephen Blackwood, the founding president of Ralston College, and with students enrolled in the inaugural year of the College’s MA in the Humanities program. In this live event—recorded on [date] at Ralston College—Hurwitz discusses the concrete details of his own writing practice and explains how his training in literature and psychology have informed his craft. He reflects on how storytelling helps us to understand the self and on the real-world value of learning to speak with honesty and authenticity.
Authors, Ideas, and Works Mentioned in this Episode:
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Joseph Campbell
Gregg Hurwitz, You’re Next
The Sixth Sense (film)
Romanticism
William Wordsworth, “Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”
William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Transcendentalism
Kurt Vonnegut
James Joyce, “The Dead”; Ulyssess
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
William Faulkner, Light in August; As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury
Raymond Chandler
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Albert Camus, The Stranger
James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
Carl Rogers
Lord Byron
Batman (comic series)
Punisher (comic series)
Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen
Pablo Picasso
Joan Didion
The Book of Henry (film)
Alan Moore
