ENG 535 Creative Writing Pedagogy:  Supplemental Reading

On Process & Revision

• "The Eleventh Draft"  Chris Offutt
• Susan Sontag's "Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as Needed"
• Stephen Koch's "Working & Reworking:  Early Drafts & the Techniques of Revision"  (excerpt from THE MODERN LIBRARY'S WRITER'S WORKSHOP)
• Gregory Martin's "The Treadmill Journal"

On Creative Nonfiction

• Patricia Hampl's "Memory & Imagination"
• Vivian Gornick's "The Situation & the Story"
• "Essayists on the Essay"
• Philip Lopate's "Writing Personal Essays:  On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character"
• Philip Lopate's "Reflection & Retrospection"
• Judith Barrington's "What is Memoir?"

On Fiction

• Charles Baxter's "Dysfunctional Narratives"
• Tim O'Brien's "The Magic Show"
• John Barth's "Incremental Perturbation"           

On Narrative Design

• Madison Smartt Bell's "Modular Design" & "Linear Design"

On Poetry

• Elaine Showalter's "Teaching Poetry"