Much of this works very well, but you should be warned about Tabucchi's tendency to slam the door on the captive reader and start a seminar.
It was 2010, and I was just starting a seminar at Diego Portales University, talking about a concept in Parra's work, when the poet himself, with the sheepish bearing of a student late for class, knocked at the door.
Saturated With Knowledge and Nowhere to Go? Start a Seminar Series || 25 December 1998.
But she and her husband, Benedict P. Willis, also started a series of seminars for fathers, which she continued after his death.
In March 2000, Dale L. Watson, the F.B.I.'s assistant director for counterterrorism, started a series of seminars with agents who headed the bureau's 56 field offices.
After I got back from Bali, I started a three-week screenwriting seminar at the Film School in Seattle.
Tim O'Reilly, president of O'Reilly & Associates, a Sebastopol, Calif., producer of technology books, Web material and seminars, started a blog at www.oreillynet.com/weblogs /author/27, two years ago.
I decided to start a weekly 1-hour seminar to examine different kinds of academic institutions.
He started the seminar with a talk on how oil is made, using a slideshow to show children how half-rotten olives found on the ground can be used to make cheap blends, instead of green olives still on the trees.
