NOTE: Items with an asterisk (*) are available in the ENCW 101 SPRING 19 folder on Google Drive.
Tuesday, January 15
INTRO
FICTION
Thursday, January 17
Edward P. Jones, “The First Day” (349)
T.C. Boyle, “Rara Avis” (106)
Tuesday, January 22
Deborah Eisenberg, “The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor” (233)
Mary Morris, “The Lifeguard” (424)
Thursday, January 24
Elizabeth McCracken, “It’s Bad Luck to Die”*
Richard Ford, “Optimists” (279)
Tuesday, January 29
Mary Robison, “Yours”*
Mary Robison, “I Am Twenty-One”*
Thursday, January 31
Robert Olen Butler, “Mr. Green” (110)
Carrie Brown, “Miniature Man”*
Tuesday,February 5
Francine Prose, “Talking Dog” (502)
Column McCann, “Everything in This Country Must” (387)
Thursday, February 7
Ron Rash, “Burning Bright”*
Ron Rash, “Chemistry”*
Tuesday, February 12
Tobias Wolff, “The Night in Question” (637)
Amy Hempel, “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried”*
Thursday, February 14
Jeanette Winterson, “The Green Man” (629)
Raymond Carver, “Are These Actual Miles?” (146)
Tuesday, February 19
Steven Millhauser, “Behind the Blue Curtain” (404)
Haruki Murakami, “The Elephant Vanishes” (453)
POETRY
Thursday, February 21
Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”*
Stanley Kunitz, “A Portrait”*
Rainer Maria Rilke, “Autumn Day”*
Ted Hughes, “Wind”*
James Dickey, “The Heaven of Animals”*
Donald Justice, “Men at Forty”*
W.H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”*
Dave Lucas, “About Suffering”*
T.R. Hummer, “Where You Go When She Sleeps”*
Tuesday, February 26
Ansel Elkins, “The Girl With Antlers”*
Ansel Elkins, “Going to the Movies Alone”*
Christian Wiman, “Every Riven Thing”*
John Ashbery, “Some Trees”*
Thursday, February 28
Susannah Nevison, Lethal Theater
Meg Day, Last Psalm at Sea
Tuesday, March 5
SPRING BREAK
Thursday, March 7
SPRING BREAK
Tuesday, March 12
Susannah Nevison, Lethal Theater, pp. 14, 17, 19, 37, 52, and 58
Meg Day, Last Psalm at Sea, pp. 8, 15, 17, 18, 27, and 30-31
Thursday, March 14
Susannah Nevison, Lethal Theater
Meg Day, Last Psalm at Sea
Thursday March 14
Writers Series
Susannah Nevison & Meg Day
7:30 p.m.
Mary Cochran Library
Reahard Learning Center
Tuesday, March 19
Poetry TBA
Thursday, March 21
Poetry TBA
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Tuesday, March 26
Cynthia Ozick, “The Seam of the Snail”*
Elizabeth McCracken, “Toward A Unified Theory of the Doughnut”*
Thursday, March 28
NO CLASS
Tuesday, April 2
Jo Ann Beard, “The Fourth State of Matter”*
Leah Purpura, “On Coming Back As A Buzzard”*
Thursday, April 4
Nell Boeschenstein, “A Few Words About Fake Breasts”*
Tuesday, April 9
ESSAYS TO READ (DUE April 7 at Midnight): Emma, Rachel D., Jamie, Sydney, and Sarah)
Salman Rushdie, “Out of Kansas”*
Thursday, April 11
ESSAYS TO READ (DUE April 9 at Midnight): Sally, Chloe, Britt, Bryanna, Rachel B, and Kat)
Sundberg, “It Will Look Like A Sunset”*