reading schedule
engl 245/cwl 267
*Selections marked with an asterisk will be provided via PDF or hard copy.
Tuesday, Sep 01 | Kate Chopin, “Story of an Hour”
Thursday, Sep 03 | James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”
Tuesday, Sep 08 | Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”
Thursday, Sep 10 | Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”
Tuesday, Sep 15 | Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Dog”
Thursday, Sep 17 | *Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Scandal in Bohemia”
Tuesday, Sep 22 | Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis — DUE: Summary/response paper
Thursday, Sep 24 | *John Barth, “Lost in the Funhouse”
Tuesday, Sep 29 | *Haruki Murakami, “ Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl”
Thursday, Oct 01 | Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl” Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”
Tuesday, Oct 06 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” *Haruki Murakami, “The Elephant Vanishes”
Thursday, Oct 08 | Midterm
Tuesday, Oct 13 | Toshio Mori, Yokohama, California
Thursday, Oct 15 | Toshio Mori, Yokohama, California
Tuesday, Oct 20 | Toshio Mori, Yokohama, California
Thursday, Oct 22 | *Selections from FIRE!!
Tuesday, Oct 27 | *Tillie Olsen, “Tell Me a Riddle”
Thursday, Oct 29 | *Tillie Olsen, “Tell Me a Riddle” — DUE: Close reading paper
Tuesday, Nov 03 | Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
Thursday, Nov 05 | Ha Jin, “Saboteur”
Tuesday, Nov 10 | *James Joyce, “The Dead”
Thursday, Nov 12 | *James Joyce, “The Dead”
Tuesday, Nov 17 | Final project workshop
Thursday, Nov 19 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Birdsong”
Tuesday, Nov 24 | NO CLASS – Fall break
Thursday, Nov 26
Tuesday, Dec 01 | Jhumpa Lahiri, “Interpreter of Maladies” — DUE: Reading journal
Thursday, Dec 03 | Leslie Marmon Silko, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds”
Tuesday, Dec 08 | NO CLASS – Writer’s Workshop, remote help, or work day
Thursday, Dec 10 | NO CLASS – Reading day — DUE: Final project, via Compass