523  Creative Nonfiction  Fall 2004

The Self and the Story:  Memoir and Literary Journalism

Syllabus and Course Description

Course Schedule:  Calendar of Readings & Responsibilities

 

Essays  On E-reserve at Zimmerman Library

Patricia Hampl's "Memory & Imagination"                                                                                                 

Vivian Gornick's "The Situation & the Story"

Richard Ford's "Reading"

Jonathan Franzen's "My Father's Brain"          

Philip Lopate's "Writing Personal Essays:  On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character"

Jane Smiley's "What Stories Teach Their Writers 

Susan Sontag's "Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as Needed"

Philip Gerard's "Taking Yourself Out of the Story"

Barbara Ehrenreich's "Cancerland"

Adam Gopnik's "Bumping into Mr. Ravioli"

Richard Selzer's "The Knife"

To access use the following path:

•  http://ereserves.unm.edu/courseindex.asp
• select English department and Greg Martin
• select Eng 523
• enter password:  study523  (password is all one word)
• have at it                                      Note on downloading adobe (pdf) files

 

Handouts (on website)

Quotes on Writing

The Reading Response

Sample Reading Response

Craft Features:  Quotes, Ideas, Questions, Working Definitions

The Peer Response

Revising for the Middle Draft

Workshops            (pdf)

Publishing Your Work