SCHEDULE Fall 2011
Week 1: 8/24
Introduction
to the course
Discuss
poems from Spoon River Anthology
Week 2: 8/31
Reading: Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, and Mann, from The Short Story Cycle, chapter on Winesburg, Ohio.
Week 3: 9/7
Reading:
Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge and Dunn,
“The Composite Novel” (This review is also helpful.)
Week 4: 9/14
Reading:
Dean Bakopoulos, Please Don’t Come Back
from the Moon and Ferguson, “Sequences, Anti-Sequences, Cycles, CompositeNovels”
Week 5: 9/21
Jeannette Walls at Emens Auditorium
Week 6: 9/28
Reading:
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon
Squad and David Jausss, “Stacking Stones: Building a Unified Short StoryCollection”
Week 7: 10/5
Go as class to
see The Circus in Winter Musical
Week 8: 10/12
1. John Bahler, Blackberry Wine,
39 pages
2. Tyler Petty, Divine Aphasia
Loves Us Dearly, 43 pages
Week 9: 10/19
3. Kat Greene: Abroad, 46 pages
4. Stacye Cline: Emergency Signal
Words, 28 pages
Week 10: 10/26
5. Josh Flynn: Panels, 40 pages
6. Sarah Grubb: Tolerances of
Less than 1/1000th of a Gram, 20 pages
Week 11: 11/2
7. Katie Ineich: Stills, 19 pages
8. Aubrie Cox: Chasing Satori, 36
pages
Week 12: 11/9
9. Linda Taylor, From this Day
Forward, 26 pages
10. Heather Wilson: According to Me,
34 pages
Week 13: 11/16
John
Barth, “It’s a Short Story.” (On figuring out if you're a congenital story writer or a novelist Also available in the anthology, The American Short Story and its Writer by Ann Charters.)
Discuss short stories vs. novel form vs. novel
in stories
Thanksgiving
no class
Week 15: 11/30
Revision
and conferences
Week 16: 12/7
Presentation:
Doing Business as a Writer
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