Course Reading List

1) "Time and Distance Overcome"
Eula Biss
Notes from No Man's Land
Biss writes of lynching and the racial attitude in the early 20th century from the approach of the telephone poles used to hang them and the idea of a communication network that links the country.

2) "The Cruelty We Delivered: An Apology"
Ira Sukrungruang
Brevity
A man reminisces on his distance and cruelty to another child-- a boy who lived with his grandmother. This boy was mischievous and rowdy. The boy hung himself years later.

3)Old Habits
Laure Lynn Drummond
Brevity
A woman senses a fight about to break out between two men at a toy store. She steps between them and manages to stop it. She is an ex-cop.

4) Field Guide to Resisting Temptation
Sarah Wells
Brevity
A woman gives herself tips on how to avoid seeing the man she was cheating on her husband with. She attempts to rationalize it to herself.

5) On the Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
Lee Gutkind
Creative Nonfiction
Gutkind assesses the temperament to creative nonfiction when it first started out and his own relationship with it as it led him to create the Creative Nonfiction Journal.

6) Introduction
Ira Glass
The New Kings of Nonfiction
An Introduction to Creative Nonfiction and the collection of essays Glass has compiled.

7) Relations
Eula Biss
Notes from No Man's Land
Race in relation to how society responds and reacts to the past history of extreme racism.

8)Goodbye to All That
Joan Didion
The Electronic Typewriter

9)Goodbye to All That
Eula Biss
Notes From No Man's Land