Graphic Organizer for Flash Fiction exercise

Course Readings

Monday January 28

Timothy Kreider - "The 'Busy' Trap"
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Wednesday January 30

Friedrich Nietzsche - "An Attempt at Self-Criticism"
Christy Vannoy - "A Personal Essay by A Personal Essay"
Rand Smith - "Diary of a Creep"
 
Monday February 4

Sigmund Freud-"Relation of the Poet to Day-Dreaming"
Franz Kafka-"In the Penal Colony", "Before the Law"

 Wednesday February 6

Franz Kafka-"A Hunger Artist"
David Foster Wallace-"Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness..."
                
Monday February 11

Gertrude Stein-excerpt from Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 

Wednesday February 13

Ernest Hemingway-"Indian Camp", "A Soldier's Home", "Hills Like White Elephants"
 
Monday February 18

No class--President’s Day

Wednesday February 20

George Orwell-"Shooting an Elephant", "Politics and the English Language", "Why I Write"
 
Monday February 25

Albert Camus-"The Myth of Sisyphus", "The Guest", "Reflections on the Guillotine"
 
Wednesday February 27

Richard Wright-excerpt from Black Boy
 
Monday March 4

Vladimir Nabokov-"Signs and Symbols", "A Nursery Tale"
Jorge Luis Borges-"Borges and I"

Wednesday March 6

Roland Barthes-"Toys", "The World of Wrestling"
Paul and Percival Goodman-"Banning Cars in Manhattan"
 
Monday March 11

Flannery O’Connor-"A Good Man is Hard To Find"
Kobo Abe-"Beguiled"


Wednesday March 13

Richard Yates-"Doctor Jack O'Lantern", "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired"
John Cheever-"The Enormous Radio", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Swimmer"


Monday March 18

Hunter S. Thompson-excerpt of Hell's Angels
Richard Hofstadter-"America as a Gun Culture"
            
Wednesday March 20

Donald Barthelme-"Shower of Golds", "The Balloon", "The School"
Raymond Carver-"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"


Monday March 25

SPRING BREAK-No class

Wednesday March 27

 SPRING BREAK-No class
 
Monday April 1

Susan Sontag-"Against Interpretation", "Simone Weil", "Notes on Camp"
Ann Beattie-"A Platonic Relationship", "Secrets and Surprises", "Janus"

Wednesday April 3

Lorrie Moore-"How to be an Other Woman", "How to Become a Writer", "Dance in America"
 
Monday April 8

David FosterWallace-"Little Expressionless Animals", "The Depressed Person"


Wednesday April 10


David Foster Wallace-"Big Red Son", "Consider the Lobster"

 Monday April 15


Jonathan Franzen-"Perchance to Dream/Why Bother"


Wednesday April 17

Deb Olin Unferth-excerpt of Revolution
Clancy Martin-excerpt of How To Sell

Monday April 22


Blake Butler-excerpt of Nothing


Wednesday April 24


Tao Lin-"Sasquatch", "We Will Drink Our Coffee And Write Our Novels And Lay In The Sunlight And Sit In Darkness", Today the Sky...., "Koko, the "Talking" Gorilla"


Monday April 29

Elizabeth Ellen-"Last American Woman", "How I Learned To Stop Loving Dave Eggers and Stole Your MFA"

Wednesday May 1

Scott McClanahan-"Phone Girl", "The Prettiest Girl in Texas", "Nicky"
Timothy Willis Sanders-"Sweet Potatoes", "You Have A Crush On Kellz"


Monday May 6

Wednesday May 8

Monday May 13 

Wednesday May 15