{"id":1307,"date":"2025-04-02T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2025-05-12T12:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:05:31","slug":"week-6-05-07-steven-hendricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/week-6-05-07-steven-hendricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6, 05\/07 Steven Hendricks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Steven Hendricks<\/a>, writer, educator (Evergreen professor) on his second novel,\u00a0Now Beacon, Now Sea<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cNow Beacon, Now Sea<\/i>\u00a0grew from my interest in writing about Samuel Beckett. The title comes from his novel Molloy: \u201cUnfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.\u201d I began with a conventional concept for a biographical novel, but I knew that form wouldn\u2019t hold my interest in the long run, and more importantly, I knew that Beckett himself was squeamish about his life and work being overly connected. Ironically, he very much enjoyed knowing about the lives of the authors he admired, and\u00a0 he often made allusion to the idea that the keys to understanding his work lay in the works of others. Among those others, one of the foremost is Dante. So that\u2019s where I began.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n