581A. Creative Writer as Critical Reader. In this course, students will read several books of literary collage, write brief response papers to these books, and then write/compose/create their own literary collages.

David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Sven Lindqvist, A History of Bombing
Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Alphonse Daudet, In the Land of Pain
Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay
Annie Dillard, For the Time Being
Amy Fusselman, The Pharmacist’s Mate
Barry Hannah, Boomerang
Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces
Maggie Nelson, Bluets
Leonard Michaels, The Essays of Leonard Michaels
Joe Wenderoth, Letters to Wendy’s
Renata Adler, Speedboat
George W.S. Trow, Within the Context of No Context
David Markson, This Is Not a Novel