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COURSE DESCRIPTIONthis is a course for writers who already have some experience writing fiction. we will be investigating the practice and process of writing: what counts as writing. why i write. how i write. from when i write. to whom i write. with what i write. of what i write. about what. toward what. who speaks. who has the word. who takes. where is the word in the text. what does the word take. what comes to be text. there will be weekly assignments and readings. start anywhere - at the middle, at the end. allow your life to be read as text. write on impulse, while you're waiting for the bus, in line, can't sleep. consider the possibilities of form, the uses of narrative and reflection, the changing shape of memory, the private and the personal, the relationship of text and image; take advantage of disconnections, overlaps, contradictions, the surface of the page; investigate the uses of montage, collage, paraphrase. you can bring an image into being in many different ways; you can build out or dig in. accept what happens, even the mistakes. see where your writing leads you. fiction might ask questions that it has no answer for. find a place to pause.
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REQUIRED TEXTS
- caroline blackwood / great granny webster (128 pgs, $12.95)
- joanna howard / in the colorless round (27 pgs, $10.00)
- michael joyce / was: annales nomadique (152 pgs, $17.95)
- elaine kraf / the princess of 72nd street (118 pgs, $9.95)
- clarice lispector / the stream of life (79 pgs, $18.50)
- nick mamatas / under my roof (144 pgs, $12.95)
- anaïs nin / house of incest (72 pgs, $7.95)
- kate schatz / pj harvey's rid of me: a story (128 pgs, $10.95)
download class syllabus [.pub]
download class handouts [.pub]
NOTE ABOUT RESERVES
House of Incest is at the Hay (1926 NI3512h 1950); other books are on reserve at the Rock (in-library use); you can check the course reserves on OCRA
CLASS HANDOUTS
- selections from Djuna Barnes / Interviews
- selections from Opal Whiteley / The Singing Creek Where the Willow Grows, Andy Warhol / The Andy Warhol Diaries, Anne Truitt / Daybook, Anna Akhmatova / My Half-Century
- selections from Yoko Ono / Grapefruit
- selections from Karen Elizabeth Gordon / The Disheveled Dictionary
- Violette Leduc / The Taxi (88 pgs)
- Susan Sontag / Project for a Trip to China (30 pgs)
SPECIAL GUESTS
- Nick Mamatas will visit on Oct. 22
- Sarah Lang will visit on Nov. 5 to read from her book, The Work of Days
SCHEDULE
| DATE | READING | WRITING | WORKSHOP |
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| SEPTEMBER 10 | Djuna Barnes | interviews | n/a |
| SEPTEMBER 17 | diaries | diaries | GROUP 1 |
| SEPTEMBER 24 | Joanna Howard | text/image OR archive | GROUP 2 |
| OCTOBER 1 | Caroline Blackwood | one page / one sentance | GROUP 3 |
| OCTOBER 8 | Elaine Kraf | place | GROUP 1 |
| OCTOBER 15 | Anaïs Nin | autobiography | GROUP 2 |
| OCTOBER 22 | Nick Mamatas | abecedarium | GROUP 3 & guest |
| OCTOBER 29 | Kate Schatz | cover | GROUP 1 |
| NOVEMBER 5 | Violette Leduc | dialogue | GROUP 2 & guest |
| NOVEMBER 12 | Michael Joyce | www.learningtoloveyoumore.com | GROUP 3 |
| NOVEMBER 19 | Susan Sontag | visit John Hay | GROUP 1 |
| NOVEMBER 26 | Clarice Lispector | yoko ono | GROUP 2 |
| DECEMBER 3 | tba | n/a | GROUP 3 |
| DECEMBER 10 | final presentations |
SUGGESTED ONLINE READINGS
NOTE: articles which are indicated as being from ProQuest or JSTOR require you to be authenticated as a Brown user for access (that is, if you are using an off-campus computer) - please see http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/proxy.php for instructions on logging in by proxy
SEPTEMBER 10
SEPTEMBER 17
SEPTEMBER 24
OCTOBER 1
OCTOBER 8
OCTOBER 15
OCTOBER 22
OCTOBER 29
NOVEMBER 5
NOVEMBER 12
NOVEMBER 19
NOVEMBER 26
DECEMBER 3
DECEMBER 10
Literary Arts, Brown University, Rhode Island