1/17 No class - MLK Holiday |
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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 |
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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" |
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4/18 Marcus - The Age of Wire and String |
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4/25 Danielewski - Only Revolutions |
Links Danielewski Entry (ECWTW) onlyrevolutions.com Exploration Z McCaffery & Gregory - "Haunted House" |
5/2 Carson - Nox |
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