Class Schedule

Tuesdays
3:30-5:30 pm
Seminar 2

Wednesdays
4-5:30 pm
Seminar 2

Thursdays
3:30-5:30 pm
Seminar 2

Tue

• "Like a Novel" by Tom Wolfe
• "Breakable Rules for Literary Journalists" by Mark Kramer
• "The Line Between Fact and Fiction" by Roy Peter Clark
• "The First Peril: The Legend on the License Revisited" by Chip Scanlan (ONLINE)
• The Idea Game

Wed
7 pm
Senior Common Room
 

• "Finding Good Topics: A Writer's Questions" by Lane DeGregory (TTS)
• "Finding Good Topics: An Editor's Questions" by Jan Winburn (TTS)
• "Not Stopping: Time Management for Writers" by Stewart O'Nan (TTS)

• "In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle" by Madeline Blais -- Stephen
• "Thinking about . . . writing creative nonfiction "
• Excerpt from The Danger Tree by David MacFarlane
• Sample scene

• "It's an Honour" by Jimmy Breslin
• "Garfield Symonds" by Stephen Kimber
• Interviewing tips from a psychologist (ONLINE)
• The dance of interviewing (ONLINE)
• "Newspaper Profiles: No Pat Answers" by James Sheryl
• "Writing Profiles" from NYU
• "Making Characters Come Alive" by John Rains
• "Profiles" by Jacqui Banaszynski (TTS)

• "Frank Sinatra has a Cold" by Gay Talese — Nina
  • "When Frank Sinatra had a Cold" by Gay Talese
  • "Gay Talese and the Fine Art of Hanging Out" by Barbara Lounsbury
• "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream" by Joan Didion — Jill
  • More on Joan Didion
  • "Why I Write"
  • Didion "Disconnect"
• "Kandy-colored Tangerine-flaked Streamline Baby..." by Tom Wolfe — Reesh
  
  • Interview with Tom Wolfe 
• "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" by Hunter S. Thompson — Connor
  
  • (More on Thompson and Gonzo Journalism)
• More on the New Journalism
  • Review of Weingarten's The Gang the Wouldn't Write Straight
  • An interview with Robert Weingarten
  • Whatever Happened To The New Journalism

Fri

• Story Ideas Journal #1

• "Tyson the Timid, Tyson the Terrible" by Gary Smith — Hartley
• "Whoredom in Kimmage" by Rosemary Mahoney — Margaret
  
• The American Man at Age 10" by Susan Orlean — Andrea
  • y Encounters with Extraordinary People" by Susan Orlean
  • (Orlean Interviews # 1 and # 2 ) (ONLINE).
• "The Life of a Hunted Man" by Touré — Kelly B
  • Touré: A Charmed Life"
• "In the Jungle" by Rian Malan —
  • "After the story..."

• From "Joy of Writing" by Pierre Berton 
  
• "Immerson Reporting" by Tom French
  
• "JFK Airport, Terminal 3"
  
• "Six Tips for Crafting Scenes" by Laurie Hertzeln
• "Reconstructing Scenes" By Adam Hochschild (TTS)
• "Setting the Scene" by Mark Kramer (TTS)

• "The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy" by Michael Paterniti — Cara
  
  • Flight 111 (excerpts) -- Stephen
• "The Perfect Fire" by Sean Flynn — Sarah Jane
• "Mount Hood's Deadly Deceit" by Tom Hallman -- Harris 

• Outline
• Readings /Story Ideas Journal #2
• Profile assignment due

• "Angels and Demons" (Chapter 1) by Tom French — Wanda
• "Death of a Playmate" by Teresa Carpenter Sandi

• "Structure" by Jon Franklin from Writing for Story
• "Organizing Narrative" by Tom French/David Hayes
• "Summary vs. Dramatic Narrative" by Jack Hart (TTS)
• "Weaving Story and Idea" by Nicholas Lemann (TTS)
  

• Read Profile assignments to workshop

• Readings /Story Ideas Journal #3
• Scene Assignment

• "Three Little Words " (Chapters 1-10 ONLINE ) by Roy Peter Clark — Sadiya
  
  • "Three Little Words: What I Learned" by Roy Peter Clark (ONLINE)
  • "What it takes to produce a serial narrative" (ONLINE)
• "A Father's Pain" by Barry Siegel— Jenn
• "Keegstra's Children" by Robert Mason Lee — Sarah
  

• Queries by Fredericton Writers
• Writers' Guidelines (Saltscapes, The Walrus, This Magazine)
• "Query Ideas for LitJ"
• "Gulf Widow"
• "Sample Query"
• "Query: Aylward"
• Writing query letters
• "Making it as a Freelancer" by Kim Collins (TTS)

• Read scene assignments to workshop

• Readings /Story Ideas Journal #4 due
• Major Story: Draft #1 due

• Individual meetings with students (my office)

• Query letter

• "Boys in Zinc" by Svetlana Alexiyevich —
• "Slaves of Freedom" by Ryszard Kapuscinski —
• "Hell Sucks" by Michael Herr — Stuart
• "Prisca Mholo" by Stephanie Nolen from 28 (HANDOUT) — Allison

• "Baghdad Without A Map" by Tony Horwitz —
• "Everyone is Talking about the Fog" by J. B. MacKinnon —