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

* McSweeney's #16 (2005)
Ann Beattie, Robert Coover, et al.
* House of Leaves (2000)
Mark Z. Danielewski
* VAS: An Opera in Flatland (2004)
Steve Tomasula
* The Flame Alphabet (2012)
Ben Marcus
* C (2010)
Tom McCarthy
* The Sense of an Endling (2011)
Julian Barnes
* The Prague Cemetery (2011)
Umberto Eco
* 2666 (2009)
Roberto Bolaño
     

8/21
Introductions
Links


8/28
Eggers - A.H.W.O.S.G. (all prefatory material, 1-237)
Barthes - "Death of the Author" (HO)
Links
AHWOSG Entry (ECWTW)

9/4
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

9/11
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #16
Robert Coover - Stepmother
George Saunders - The Very Persistent Gapper of Frip
Links
mcsweeneys.net | mcsweeneys.org
"The McSweeney's Store"
826 Valencia | 826 Valencia Store

9/18
Danielewski - House of Leaves (all intro material - 312)
Freud - "The Uncanny"
Borges - "Garden of Forking Paths"
Borges - "Pierre Menard"
Links
Danielewski Entry (ECWTW)
Exploration Z
McCaffery & Gregory - "Haunted House"

9/25
Danielewski - House of Leaves (313 - 662)
Hayles - "Saving the Subject"
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
"The Library of Babel"
Links
Hamilton - "The A-Mazing House"
Hansen - "Digital Topography of MZD's HOL"

10/2
Tomasula - VAS: An Opera in Flatland
Tomasula - "An Apology for Postmodern Prose"
Abbott - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Links
stevetomasula.com
Flatland (audio recording)


10/9
NO CLASS - FALL BREAK
Links


10/16
Marcus - The Flame Alphabet (3-289)
Marcus - "Experimental Fiction: A Correction" (HO)

Links
benmarcus.com

10/23
McCarthy - C (3-190)
Smith - "Two Paths for the Novel"
Links
International Necronautical Society
"Declaration on the Notion of 'the Future'"


10/30
McCarthy - C (193-310)
McCarthy - "Transmission and the Individual Remix"

Links
vargas.org.uk/publications
surplusmatter.com

11/6
Barnes - The Sense of an Ending (4-163)
Barth - "The Literature of Exhaustion" (HO)
Links
julianbarnes.com

11/13
Eco - The Prague Cemetery (1-228)
Links
umbertoeco.com

11/20
Eco - The Prague Cemetery (229-444)
Links
The Protocols

11/27
Bolaño - 2666 (Parts I & II, 3-228)
Links
bolanobolano.com

12/4
Bolaño - 2666 (Part III, 231-349)

TERM PAPER DUE

Links
Farred - "The Impossible Closing"
bobbyqueseale.com