URL: davidshields.com

No book orders. Course packet available from Ave Copy. Course packet is Life Is Short—Art Is Shorter: An Anthology of Very Brief Prose, with lengthy introduction and extensive commentary by David Shields and Elizabeth Cooperman.

An intermediate course in the art of prose. Students will read dozens of very short stories and very brief essays, then write their own versions of these exemplary stories—collages, lovers’ quarrels, “trick stories,” prose-poems, parables, etc.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 283 & ENGL 284