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Almost Done
All that is left to wrap up my Analyzing Short Stories class is to take the final. I can't request it until I receive my grade for my last submission, which I sent in about ten days ago. It typically takes about 21 days for my submissions to get back to me, which will leave me a little over three weeks to request and complete the final.
I thought I might start reviewing the stories, just to get ahead a little, but once I began, I realized that every one of these stories had stuck with me to the point that I may not really need to review that much. All of these stories - whether I enjoyed them, hated them, or just felt meh about them - have stuck with me, which was the point.
I am also finding myself nodding and going, "Yes, yes indeed, I get what the writer was trying to say/do/show," and while I may not have enjoyed certain stories, I admire each of them, and I am the better as both a reader and writer for having taken this class. What's more, stories that I did not enjoy - or completely understand at the initial reading - I am now looking back on with fondness and understanding. Several of these stories forced me way outside of my comfort zone, which was exactly what I needed.
For those keeping score at home, of the 135 stories in the anthology (The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction: Ann Charters, editor), I read these 45. At some point I plan to read the rest.
Achebe, Chinua: "Civil Peace"
Allende, Isabel: "And of Clay Are We Are Created"
Anderson, Sherwood: "Death in the Woods"
Anderson, Sherwood: "Hands"
Anonymous: "The Beginning of Wisdom: An Ashanti Folk-Tale"
Atwood, Margaret: "Happy Endings"
Atwood, Margaret: "Rape Fantasies"
Baldwin, James: "Sonny's Blues"
Bambara, Toni Cade: "The Lesson"
Barth, John: "Lost in the Funhouse"
Bierce, Ambrose: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Borges, Jorge Luis: "The End of the Duel"
Carter, Angela: "The Company of Wolves"
Carver, Raymond: "A Small, Good Thing"
Chopin, Kate: "The Story of an Hour"
Crane, Stephan: "The Open Boat"
Danticat, Edwidge: "Night Women"
Erdrich, Louis: "The Red Convertible"
Faulkner, William: "A Rose for Emily"
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: "Young Goodman Brown"
Head, Bessie: "Woman from America"
Hemingway, Ernest: "Hills Like White Elephants"
Hurston, Zora Neale: "Spunk"
Jackson, Shirley: "The Lottery"
Jewett, Sarah Orne: "A White Heron"
Johnson, Charles R.: "Menagerie: A Child's Fable"
Kincaid, Jamaica: "Girl"
LeGuin, Ursula K.: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
Mason, Bobbie Ann: "Shiloh"
Melville, Herman: "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Mukherjee, Bharati: "The Management of Grief"
O'Brien, Tim: "The Things They Carried"
O'Conner, Flannery: "Everything That Rises Must Converge"
O'Conner, Frank: "Guests of the Nation"
Ozick, Cynthia: "The Shawl"
Paley, Grace: "A Conversation with My Father"
Paz, Octavio: "My Life with the Wave"
Silko, Leslie Marmon, "Yellow Woman"
Sontag, Susan: "The Way We Live Now"
Tan, Amy: "Two Kinds"
Toomer, Jean: "Blood-Burning Moon"
Welty, Eudora: "A Worn Path"
Wright, Richard: "The Man Who Was Almost a Man"
Yamamoto, Hisaye: "Wilshire Bus"
Loved some. Hated others. Each made an impression. Each taught me something about how story works. It was a good class.
In Peace,
Michael
I thought I might start reviewing the stories, just to get ahead a little, but once I began, I realized that every one of these stories had stuck with me to the point that I may not really need to review that much. All of these stories - whether I enjoyed them, hated them, or just felt meh about them - have stuck with me, which was the point.
I am also finding myself nodding and going, "Yes, yes indeed, I get what the writer was trying to say/do/show," and while I may not have enjoyed certain stories, I admire each of them, and I am the better as both a reader and writer for having taken this class. What's more, stories that I did not enjoy - or completely understand at the initial reading - I am now looking back on with fondness and understanding. Several of these stories forced me way outside of my comfort zone, which was exactly what I needed.
For those keeping score at home, of the 135 stories in the anthology (The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction: Ann Charters, editor), I read these 45. At some point I plan to read the rest.
Achebe, Chinua: "Civil Peace"
Allende, Isabel: "And of Clay Are We Are Created"
Anderson, Sherwood: "Death in the Woods"
Anderson, Sherwood: "Hands"
Anonymous: "The Beginning of Wisdom: An Ashanti Folk-Tale"
Atwood, Margaret: "Happy Endings"
Atwood, Margaret: "Rape Fantasies"
Baldwin, James: "Sonny's Blues"
Bambara, Toni Cade: "The Lesson"
Barth, John: "Lost in the Funhouse"
Bierce, Ambrose: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Borges, Jorge Luis: "The End of the Duel"
Carter, Angela: "The Company of Wolves"
Carver, Raymond: "A Small, Good Thing"
Chopin, Kate: "The Story of an Hour"
Crane, Stephan: "The Open Boat"
Danticat, Edwidge: "Night Women"
Erdrich, Louis: "The Red Convertible"
Faulkner, William: "A Rose for Emily"
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: "Young Goodman Brown"
Head, Bessie: "Woman from America"
Hemingway, Ernest: "Hills Like White Elephants"
Hurston, Zora Neale: "Spunk"
Jackson, Shirley: "The Lottery"
Jewett, Sarah Orne: "A White Heron"
Johnson, Charles R.: "Menagerie: A Child's Fable"
Kincaid, Jamaica: "Girl"
LeGuin, Ursula K.: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
Mason, Bobbie Ann: "Shiloh"
Melville, Herman: "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Mukherjee, Bharati: "The Management of Grief"
O'Brien, Tim: "The Things They Carried"
O'Conner, Flannery: "Everything That Rises Must Converge"
O'Conner, Frank: "Guests of the Nation"
Ozick, Cynthia: "The Shawl"
Paley, Grace: "A Conversation with My Father"
Paz, Octavio: "My Life with the Wave"
Silko, Leslie Marmon, "Yellow Woman"
Sontag, Susan: "The Way We Live Now"
Tan, Amy: "Two Kinds"
Toomer, Jean: "Blood-Burning Moon"
Welty, Eudora: "A Worn Path"
Wright, Richard: "The Man Who Was Almost a Man"
Yamamoto, Hisaye: "Wilshire Bus"
Loved some. Hated others. Each made an impression. Each taught me something about how story works. It was a good class.
In Peace,
Michael
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Err, sorry... Flashbacks.
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I had that one in 4 or 5 different classes.
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The book you cited looked very interesting - I just ordered it :)
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If you need a writing group, the Twin Cities Speculative Fiction Writers Network is a networking group with an optional ongoing workshop available.
http://scifiwriting.meetup.com/2
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Check it out!
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I'm disappointed that the Angela Carter story is no longer The Erl King. I adored that one and it led me on to many of her books. None of which were as good as her short stories.
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