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, lengthy introduction and extensive commentary by David Shields and Elizabeth Cooperman.

An advanced 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 and essays—collages, lovers’ quarrels, “trick stories,” prose-poems, parables, etc.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384