ENGL-2050 Creative Writing: Fiction I

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Chapter 1:

• How to Write Short by Roy Peter Clark

• Why I Write by Joan Didion (essay within Let Me Tell You What I Mean) 

• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

• Shitty First Drafts by Anne Lamott (essay within Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

Chapter 2:

• Without Inspection by Edwidge Danticat

• Teen Sniper by Adam Johnson

• Emergency by Denis Johnson

• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates

• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor (also available Libby eAudiobook or Hoopla eAudiobook)

Chapter 3:

• Tandolfo the Great by Richard Bausch (essay within The Stories of Richard Bausch)

• Every Tongue Shall Confess by ZZ Packer

• Rock Springs by Richard Ford

• Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian

• The Tambourine Lady by John Edgar Wideman

• Thank You by Alejandro Zambra (essay within My Documents)

Chapter 4:

• Aren’t You Happy for Me by Richard Bausch

• Saint Maire by Louise Erdrich (essay within The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008) also available on Hoopla. 

• Orbiting by Bharati Mukherjee (essay within The Middleman)

• Love and Hydrogen by Jim Shepard

• A Different Road by Elizabeth Strout (essay within Olive Kitteridge. eBook or eAudiobook)

Chapter 5:

• A Serious Talk by Raymond Carver (essay within Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories)

Chapter 6:

• The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Libby eBook, Libby eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook, Hoopla eAudiobook)

• Real Women Have Bodies by Carmen Maria Machado (essay within Her Body and Other Parties: Stories) also available on Hoopla eAudiobook. 

Chapter 7:

• How Far She Went by Mary Hood

• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor (also available Libby eAudiobook or Hoopla eAudiobook)

Chapter 8:

• The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

• Wolf of White Forest by Anthony Marra (essay within The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories) also available on Libby eBook

• Signs and Symbols by Vladimir Nabokov (essay within Anatomy of a Short Story: Nabokov's Puzzles, Codes, 'Signs and Symbols' starting on pg. 9)

Chapter 9:

• Ad Infinitum by John Barth

• Mobius the Stripper by Gabriel Josipovici (essay within Heart's Wings)

• Runaway by Alice Munro (also available on Libby eBook, Libby eAudiobook, or Hoopla eAudiobook)

Chapter 1:

• Why I Write by Joan Didion (essay within Let Me Tell You What I Mean)

• Shitty First Drafts by Anne Lamott (essay within The Making of a Story: a Norton Guide to Creative Writing or Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

• One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty

Chapter 2:

• Linoleum Roses by Sandra Cisneros (essay within The House on Mango Street)

• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor

Chapter 3:

• Rock Springs by Richard Ford

• Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian (essay within The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018)

• The Tambourine Lady by John Edgar Wideman (essay within Fever: Twelve Stories)

• Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff (essay within Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories)

Chapter 4:

• Aren’t You Happy for Me by Richard Bausch (essay within The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories)

• Saint Maire by Louise Erdrich (essay within The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008)

Chapter 5:

• A Serious Talk by Raymond Carver (essay within Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories)

• The Bella Lingua by John Cheever (essay within The Stories of John Cheever) 

• Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison (essay within The Oxford Book of American Short Stories)

• Car Crash While Hitchhiking by Denis Johnson (essay within Jesus' son: Stories)

Chapter 6:

• The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez (essay within Collected Stories or Leaf Storm: And Other Stories)

• You’re Ugly Too by Lorrie Moore (essay within The Best American Short Stories of the Century)

Chapter 7:

• Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood (essay within The Art of the Short Story)

• We Didn’t by Stuart Dybek (essay within My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro)

• Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor

• The Second Tree from the Corner by E. B. White (essay within The Best American Short Stories of the Century or E. B. White: A Biography) 

• The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams (essay within Short Shorts: An Anthology of the Shortest Stories)

Chapter 8:

• Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth

• Before the Change by Alice Munro (essay within The Love of a Good Woman)

• Eyes of a Blue Dog by Gabriel García Márquez (essay within Collected Stories)

Chapter 9:

• Ralph the Duck by Frederick Busch (essay within The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing)

• Cathedral by Raymond Carver (essay within Cathedral: Stories or The Art of the Short Story)

• Runaway by Alice Munro (also within Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014)

• A Man Told Me the Story of His Life by Grace Paley (also within The Collected Stories)