Greetings, friends! You’ve arrived at the motherblog for English 524 Contemporary American Short Story. Here, you’ll find all our course information – – syllabus, (almost all the) texts we’ll read, assignments, and various updates. Before every class, I’ll post an update here to alert you to reading assignments, due dates, assignments, etc. Check back often!
We won’t be meeting online this Tuesday – – but you’ll still have some work to do. This includes: reviewing our syllabus, checking out our Reading Room, and reading the first paragraph of our first short story “Taylor Swift.”
After you’ve read the first paragraph of “Taylor Swift,” I want you to answer these questions:
- what questions do you have about the story?
- where do you think the story will end up?
- where does the story take place?
- who is the protagonist (hero) of the story and what are they like?
Write down your answers to these questions and bring them to our first zoom class session on Thursday at 2 p.m. (I’ll send out zoom link on Thursday morning.)