This theme-based creative course examines the writer’s relationship with memory through the examination of a variety of novels and short stories. Students will discuss assorted aesthetic approaches to the act of memory as seen in such works as Liliana Hecker’s The End of the Story, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and others. Students will also generate and revise their own creative work throughout the course—not only as a way to develop their writing skills, but also as a broader experiment in positioning themselves at multiple points within this complex literary landscape.