Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed your fall recess.
Tuesday is Reading Room day!
Thursday, we’ll return to discussing Bryan Washington’s collection – – Lot. For Thursday, let’s focus our discussion on these four stories: “Elgin,” “610 North, 610 West,” “Navigation” and “Bayou.”
Finally, I’ve written up our final project/assignment: “My Short Story Anthology.” See all the details here.
Tuesday, November 16, is – – you guessed it: Reading Room day.
For next Thursday, November 18, you’ll want to read Bryan Washington’s fantastic short story collection – – Lot. If you can’t read the whole thing, delve as far into the collection as you can.
Remember: due today, November 11, at midnight is your third reflection essay. See my previous post for details about how to successfully craft this reflection.
For those who are interested, I’ll be teaching two whiz-bang, super-dank classes next semester: English 465: Post-Apocalyptic [PA] Fiction and English 630: Literature of Labor. English 465 will be entirely online; English 630 – – for now- – is scheduled as “hybrid,” i.e. one class session online and the other in-person. (This latter arrangement may change, i.e. to completely online.) Here’s a link to a previous version of English 465 – – I’ll be making some adjustments to the syllabus, shifting a text or two on/off the reading list etc. (If you have any five-star recommendations in the PA genre to suggest, please do! I’m always looking for new reads and new classroom instigations.) The Lit. of Labor course is always fun and may expose you to stories you might otherwise miss out on. Link to one previous version of English 630 can be found here.
Tuesday is Reading Room day!
Thursday, we’ll talk about Gish Jen’s classic short story – – “In the American Society.” (Available in our best-selling class anthology.)
Reminder: Our next reflection essay is due Thursday, November 11, at midnight. (See previous post for a description of this version of the reflection essay.)