Ursula le Guin: Five Ways to Forgiveness • Dr. Scott Black

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Come be part of a community of individuals and families who value people more than beliefs. Some have said it's like going to a Ted talk with live music every Sunday. We meet at 11 AM Mountain Time in the [Parker Theatre Studio](https://maps.app.goo.gl/b5Kii2ndUWZ9viw78) at 3601 State Street, South Salt Lake. We would love to have you join us for some great topics and socializing! Join us this Sunday to hear Dr. Scott Black, Director of the Tanner Humanity Center, speak to us on the topic of **Ursula le Guin: Five Ways to Forgiveness** *Dr. Scott Black is a scholar of eighteenth-century British literature and the long history of prose fiction. He has published widely on the development of the early British essay and on a broad range of writers from Heliodorus and Cervantes to Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding, David Hume, Laurence Sterne, and Iharu Saikaku. His most recent book, [Without the Novel: Romance and the History of Prose Fiction](https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5342/), restores the genre of romance, the black sheep of modern literary histories, to its proper place as a centrally important form of storytelling and a vital mode of readerly pleasure. His first book, [Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9780230286641), focuses on the co-evolution of the essay and the mode of literacy it enabled in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. He is currently working on a project about Ursula K. Le Guin’s innovative later work, which challenges familiar forms of heroic narrative from the perspective of Daoism. Dr. Black regularly teaches courses on Le Guin, as well as on contemporary global literature, the history of the novel, experimental fiction, and fantasy.* *Dr. Black is currently Director of the Tanner Humanities Center. Prior to that, he served as Chair of the English Department for seven years. He has been awarded fellowships from the Huntington Library, UCLA’s Clark Library, the Folger…