1/21

Introductions.  Syllabus. 

1/28

• O'Connor's "Guests of the Nation (e-reserve)
• Ford’s "Reading"  (Crafting Fiction)
• O’Connor’s "Introduction to The Lonely Voice"  (Crafting Fiction)
• O’Connor Interview  (e-reserve)
• Reading Response & Craft Features
• Quotes on Writing
• Discussion sign-up

2/4

• Chekhov's "Lady with a Dog"  (e-reserve)
• Oates' "Lady With a Dog" (e-reserve)
• Prose "Learning from Chekhov" (Crafting Fiction)
• Oates Interview  (e-reserve)

2/11

• Welch's Winter in the Blood

2/18

• Alice Munro's "Family Furnishings" & Cortes Island  (e-reserve)

• Munro Interview  (e-reserve)

2/25

• Butler's A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

3/3

• Butler's A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

3/10

• Alexie's "What You Pawn I Will Redeem"  (e-reserve)

• Dubus’ "A Father’s Story"  ((e-reserve)

• Flannery O'Connor "Writing Short Stories" (Crafting Fiction)

3/17

Spring Break

3/24

• Dan Stolar's The Middle of the Night 

• (two stories)

3/31

• Dan Stolar's The Middle of the Night.  (two stories)

• Dan Visits. 

• Reading on 4/8 at the Jonson Gallery

4/7

• Cather's My Antonia

4/14

• Sontag's "The Way We Live Now" (e-reserve)

• Gass's "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" (e-reserve)

• Gass Interview (e-reserve)

• Gass "Philosophy and the Form of Fiction" (Crafting Fiction) 

4/21

•  Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

4/28

• Houston's "The Best Girlfriend You Never Had" (e-reserve)

• Ford's "Great Falls" (e-reserve)

• Ford Interview  (e-reserve)

5/5

•  Norman's The Bird Artist

5/12

 Party at My House