A. H. W. O. S. G. (2000)
Dave Eggers


McSweeney's #16
(2005)
Ann Beattie, Robert Coover, et al.


Stepmother
(2004)
Robert Coover


Gappers of Frip (2000)
George Saunders


Paradise (1999)
Toni Morrison


A Million Little Pieces (2003)
James Frey


Freedom: A Novel (2010)
Jonathan Franzen


C (2010)
Tom McCarthy


Age of Wire and String (1995)
Ben Marcus


Only Revolutions (2006)
Mark Z. Danielewski


Nox (2010)
Anne Carson
     

1/17
No class - MLK Holiday
Links


1/24
Eggers - A.H.W.O.S.G. (all prefatory material, 1-237)
Barthes - "Death of the Author" (HO)
Links
AHWOSG Entry (ECWTW)

1/31
Eggers - A.H.W.O.S.G. (239-437)
Eggers - "M.W.K.W.W.M" (HO)
Doctorow - "False Documents" (HO)
The Beth Eggers Saga (HO)

Links
aphrodigitaliac.com
Gary Baum: Friend or FoE

2/7
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (16)
The Believer (76)
Links
mcsweeneys.net | mcsweeneys.org
"The McSweeney's Store"
826 Valencia | 826 Valencia Store

2/14
Coover - Stepmother
Saunders - The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

Barth - "The Literature of Exhaustion" (HO)
Lanham - "The McEggers Tang Clan" (HO)

Links
Saunders - "Bohemians" (1) | "Bohemians" (2)
georgesaundersland.com
Saunders! Saunders! Saunders!
Saunders in The New Yorker

2/21
Morrison - Paradise (3-138)
Young - "Postmodern Popular Audiences"
Hall - "The 'Oprahfication' of Literacy"
Max - "The Oprah Effect"
Links
The Toni Morrison Society
Oprah's Book Club

2/28
Morrison - Paradise (141-318)
Aubry - "Beware the Furrow of the Middlebrow"
Rooney - "The Stories of Oprah" (HO)

Links
Morrison - "Recitatif"

3/7
Frey - A Million Little Pieces (v-109)
"A Million Little Lies" (TSG)
Borst - "Managing the Crisis"
Links
Oprah's Questions

3/14
No class - Spring Break

Links


3/21
Franzen - Freedom: A Novel (3-381)
Rooney - "Franzen Versus Oprah Winfrey" (HO)
Franzen - "Perchance to Dream" (HO)
Marcus - "Experimental Fiction: A Correction" (HO)

Links
Franzen Discusses Author Videos (YouTube)
Franzen on the NewsHour (PBS)
johnathanfranzen.com

3/28
Franzen - Freedom: A Novel (382-562)
Myers - "Smaller Than Life"
Kakutani - "Hoping for Transcendence"
Tanenhaus - "Peace and War"
Links
Wood - "Human, All Too Inhuman"

4/4
McCarthy - C (3-190)
Links
International Necronautical Society
"Declaration on the Notion of 'the Future'"
vargas.org.uk/publications
surplusmatter.com

4/11
McCarthy - C (193-310)
Smith - "Two Paths for the Novel"
Links

4/18
Marcus - The Age of Wire and String
Links

4/25
Danielewski - Only Revolutions
Links
Danielewski Entry (ECWTW)
onlyrevolutions.com
Exploration Z
McCaffery & Gregory - "Haunted House"

5/2
Carson - Nox
Links