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F13 - ENGL071D.01 - Core: Short Story in the US
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ENGL071D-01-F13 (FALL 2013)
November 25 - December 1
Pynchon, the Chums of Chance time travel episode
Pynchon, the Chums of Chance time travel episode
an excerpt from Pynchon's novel
Against the Day
(2006)
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Pynchon-Chums of Chance.pdf
link to view the file.
◄ Saunders' 2013 commencement speech, on the importance of kindness
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summary topics for English 71D Short Story in U.S.
info regarding the "teacher lesson plan" option for assignment #2
STUDENT COURSE EVALUATION FORM for English 71D
ENGL 71D: THE SHORT STORY IN THE U.S.--course requirements, info, and syllabus: download and/or print this
Guidelines for Paper #1
News forum
an example of an A essay (on Hawthorne)
an example of an A essay (on Sui Sin Far)
an example of an A essay (on Faulkner)
Edelman essay on Melville's "Bartleby," Occupy Wall Street, and the Humanities
Gregory Frost, "The Madonna of the Maquiladora" (1999)
Sui Sin Far's story "In the Land of the Free" (c. 1900)
Historical background for "In the Land of the Free"
Bibliographic info on the Sui Sin Far text
Guidelines for Paper #1
PAPER # 1 DUE, 5pm, Fri. OCT. 4
Welty story "Where is the Voice Coming From?"
from The New Yorker: background on Welty's "Where Is The Voice Coming From?"
Danticat story "The Children of the Sea"
Danticat essay "Create Dangerously"
Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"
Flannery O'Connor's early "Prayer Journal" published: here's a review of it
Jackson's "The Lottery," plus discussion questions at the end
New Yorker background info on the aftermath of Jackson's "Lottery"
Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt"
original illustration accompanying Bradbury's story
Stephen Colbert reads Bradbury's "The Veldt" (Part 1)
Colbert reads Bradbury (Part 2)
Colbert reads Bradbury (Part 3)
Nathan Englander, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank"
Toni Cade Bambara, "The Lesson"
"Bambara Group" student presentation on "The Lesson" (YouTube)
Nicholasa Mohr's "The English Lesson"
Gish Jen, "In the American Society"
Cisneros, 2 stories
Torres, "We Wanted More," from _We the Animals_
Díaz, "Negocios"
Firmat quotation about language, from Díaz's _Drown_.
Rishi Reddi, "Karma"
excellent interview with Rishi Reddi
Tobias Wolff reads his story "That Room"
Wolff's story in mp3 format
pdf of the text of Wolff's "That Room"
Adam Haslett, "The Volunteer" (part 1)
Adam Haslett, "The Volunteer" (part 2)
Jonathan Raymond, "Train Choir" (part 1)
Jonathan Raymond, "Train Choir" (part 2)
Saunders' "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" pdf
Saunders' 2013 commencement speech, on the importance of kindness
Dick Hill reads Pynchon: Against the Day's Chums of Chance and the Time Machine episode (audio files). *Optional.* 31 audio files, c. 3 minutes each = about 1.5 hours.
annotations for the Pynchon "time travel" story
a Chums of Chance reading list
Yu, 2 stories: ""Third Class Superhero" and ""Autobiographical Raw Material Unsuitable for the Mining of Fiction"
optional: Authors@Google event where Yu reads from and discusses his 2010 novel about a time-machine repairman
The novelist Gary Shteyngart reads Lorrie Moore's "Paper Losses" and discusses her story with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman
Egan, "Emerald City"
Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"
short film inspired by "St. Lucy's Home…"
David Eggers' "We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better"
brief article on the history and future of office space design--to go with the Eggers story
PAPER # 2 (or teaching plan project) DUE, 8-12pp., MONDAY DEC. 16, 5pm.
Dick Hill reads Pynchon: Against the Day's Chums of Chance and the Time Machine episode (audio files). *Optional.* 31 audio files, c. 3 minutes each = about 1.5 hours. ►