Week 1 March 29: Introductions / What is creative nonfiction? What is the difference between memoir and the personal essay? [Read James of a Baldwin’s “Notes Native Son,” Nora Ephron’s “A Few Words David It and About Breasts,” Sedaris’ “Let Snow,” Cheryl Strayed’s “The Love of My Life.”] March 31: Studio Day: Begin working on a draft of your memoir piece. [Read Joan to All Eula to All Didion’s “Goodbye That,” Biss’s “Goodbye That,” Chang-Rae Lee’s “Coming Home Again.”] Week 2 Bring in first rough draft. Discussion of memoir readings, with in-class April 5: exercises. [Read to the E. B. White’s “Once More Lake,” Alberto Rios’s “Green Cards,” to All “Goodbye That,” Bruce Snider’s “Ammunition.”] April 7: Bring in second rough draft. [Read Vivian and the Gornick’s “The Situation Story.”] Week 3 Workshop #1 April 12: April 14: Workshop #1 Week 4 April 19: Workshop #1 Workshop #1 April 21: Week 5 April 26: Workshop #1 April 28: Workshop #1 [Read Amy Yell at the Leach’s “Please Do Not Cucumber,” Montaigne’s “On from Cannibals,” Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter Birmingham Jail.”] Week 6 Personal Essays May 3: [Read of the David I Virginia Woolf’s “Death Moth,” Henry Thoreau’s “Where Lived, and What I (excerpt from Walden), Lived For” Leslie Jamison’s “Empathy Exams.”] May 5: Discuss personal essays.
Week 1 March 29: Introductions / What is creative nonfiction? What is the difference between memoir and the personal essay? [Read James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son,” Nora Ephron’s “A Few Words About Breasts,” David Sedaris’ “Let It Snow,” and Cheryl Strayed’s “The Love of My Life.”] March 31: Studio Day: Begin working on a draft of your memoir piece. [Read Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That,” Eula Biss’s “Goodbye to All That,” Chang-Rae Lee’s “Coming Home Again.”] Week 2 April 5: Bring in first rough draft. Discussion of memoir readings, with in-class exercises. [Read E. B. White’s “Once More to the Lake,” Alberto Rios’s “Green Cards,” “Goodbye to All That,” Bruce Snider’s “Ammunition.”] April 7: Bring in second rough draft. [Read Vivian Gornick’s “The Situation and the Story.”] Week 3 April 12: Workshop #1 April 14: Workshop #1 Week 4 April 19: Workshop #1 April 21: Workshop #1 Week 5 April 26: Workshop #1 April 28: Workshop #1 [Read Amy Leach’s “Please Do Not Yell at the Cucumber,” Montaigne’s “On Cannibals,” Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”] Week 6 May 3: Personal Essays [Read Virginia Woolf’s “Death of the Moth,” Henry David Thoreau’s “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” (excerpt from Walden), Leslie Jamison’s “Empathy Exams.”] May 5: Discuss personal essays.
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