Story #2

Please elaborate on your idea for the next story. You might use a version of the three-part "test" proposed by Henry James to structure your response: What are you trying to achieve? How will you achieve it? Why is it worth achieving?

Your response is due by midnight Wednesday, March 26.  (I hope you have drafts of first scenes from some of you by the following Wednesday.)

Species-on-Species Abuse

If this semester you were to write a story about a place a la Vowell, what would it be and why? The only restriction is that the place must actually be accessible to you. Please respond no later than Wednesday, midnight.

Cranium

Please respond to one of the following questions about EXPERIMENT IN MISERY:

1) Why does Crane refer to the tramp as the "assassin"?

or

2) Identify an unusual or unexpected use of an adjective in a description of a person, place or thing. Why is it unusual? Why would Crane use such a trope?


Your response is due no later than midnight Tues, Jan. 28.


FYI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw0cX9g1O7M



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv0-uWRuaxU

Riis's Pieces

http://books.google.com/books?id=6M8JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=abe's+game+of+jacks&source=bl&ots=BmBWgE-OER&sig=e3wGyfe1u1XroPGwRvxk6BIauLk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hhwMUv3qJ-ri4AO0p4DwAQ&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=abe's%20game%20of%20jacks&f=false

http://www.tribepictures.com/video/documentary/historical-documentary/


http://www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-us/videos/jacob-riis 



http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=91981589&m=92043727
 

Calls for Submissions

http://budsmithwrites.com/books/unknown-press-anthologies/call-for-submissions-too-much-an-anthology-about-excess/


http://run-to-the-roundhouse-nellie.com/readers-house


http://www.vacantpress.com/

Final Blog Post/Fall 2013

Read Kirkhorn's essay and Sacco's comic strip, as well as the article linked below. Explain how Sacco exemplifies Kirkhorn's concept of a "virtuous journalist" -- or why he doesn't.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/books/joe-saccos-the-great-war-july-1-1916.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

Also, bring to class your own chosen example of a virtuous journalists and be prepared to discuss it. If you wish, you can include a link to his or her work with your blog response, which is due Tues., Dec. 3, at 4 p.m.

Here's my example:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/07/08/opinion/sunday/the-strip.html?_r=0#1

Submissions (Art & Fear, Part 2)

Read Part 2 of the book Art & Fear, then search the following Web sites for at least three publications to which to submit your story. Explain why these publications are a good fit for you. Your response is due by 4 p.m., Tues., Nov. 12.

 http://www.newpages.com/


http://www.thereviewreview.net/magazines/
http://www.everywritersresource.com/literarymagazines/

http://www.pw.org/literary_magazines

http://www.placesforwriters.com/


By the way, some of you are neglecting to complete the blog and, as a result, are compiling F's at an alarming rate. I encourage you to reconsider your conduct.

Inspiring Quotes About Writing (Courtesy of Mike Kelly)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/quotes-about-writing

Dead Kennedys

Although written only five years apart and about similar events, the Breslin and Hamill stories feel vastly different. Identify one literary technique that, to your mind, contributes to this different feel and explain how it contributes. You might choose, for example, from point of view, narrative structure, choice of language, and so on. Please be as specific and complete as possible. Your response should be posted by  Tuesday,  Nov. 5, 4 p.m.

Art & Fear

What statement or observation in Part I of Art & Fear resonates with you? Why? Be as detailed as you can.


Please respond by Tuesday, Oct. 29, 4 p.m. Just to be clear, every non- or late response on this blog, results in a F. I have reiterated this many times, but to poor effect. I mention it again -- and I hope for the very last time -- because the need for discipline is emphasized in this book.

Kentucky Derby

http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf

Would want to be a "gonzo" journalist? Why or why not? Due Tues, Oct 22, 4 pm

Take the Cannoli

What makes Vowell's writing in "Species on Species Abuse" funny? Language? Situation? Point of view?

Your response is due by 4 p.m., Tues., Oct. 15.

Herr Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeehkdQL_VE

Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/hub_fans_bid_kid_adieu_article.shtml

How does Updike manage to impart significance to something as trivial as a baseball game? That is, does he use a particular motif of images? Does he resort to the old reliable of sportswriters: statistics? Is it through exposition? Or some other device or devices?

Your response is due by 4 p.m. Tues., Oct. 8.

Journalism as Literature

http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2013/09/american-portraits-collage.html

What's Your Story?

Please describe the prospective subject of your literary journalism piece.

Keep in mind Henry James' criteria for judging a piece of writing: 1) What is the writer trying to achieve? 2) Did the writer achieve it? 3) Was it worth achieving? The last is also perhaps the most important.

Answer each of the categories in turn. For #2, answer "how" you're going to achieve it -- that is, your ideas for reporting and structuring the piece, what scenes it will include.

Try to be as specific as possible throughout.

Your response is due by 4 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 24.

Story Idea

Please describe the prospective subject of your literary journalism piece.

Keep in mind Henry James' criteria for judging a piece of writing: 1) What is the writer trying to achieve? 2) Did the writer achieve it? 3) Was it worth achieving? The last is also perhaps the most important.

Answer each of the categories in turn. For #2, answer "how" you're going to achieve it -- that is, your ideas for reporting and structuring the piece.

Try to be as specific as possible throughout.

Your response is due by 4 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 17.

Colorful Crane

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/These-Books-Can-Be-Judged-Positively-By-Their-Covers-220557391.html?c=y&page=1&navigation=thumb#IMAGES

Death of Rodriguez

The issue for a writer is how to close the gap, often yawning, between the writer's subject and the reader's experience. Give one example of how Richard Harding Davis creates reader admiration and/or sympathy for Rodriguez in his story. You should cite a specific image, description, etc., rather than make a general statement. Notice, too, how he leads us to feel quite the opposite about the Spaniards.

Please respond by 4 p.m., Sept. 10.

Writers on Writing (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMACNQPrWDM