Week 1: July 2-July 6
Monday: Introduction to the Course; “The Pidgeon”
Tuesday: “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor; “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
Wednesday: No class
Thursday: “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason; “Tapestry” by Edward P. Jones; “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston
Friday: Reader-Response Presentation; Elements of the Short Story
Week 2: July 9-July 13
Monday:“Janus” by Ann Beattie; “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” Raymond Carver
Tuesday:“Intervention” by Jill McCorkle
Wednesday:“The Shell Collector” by Anthony Doerr
Thursday:Reader-Response Presentation; Elements of the Short Story
Week 3: July 16-July 20
Monday: “And of Clay Are We Created” by Isabel Allende; “Surrounded by Sleep” by Akhil Sharma
Tuesday:“Silver Pavements” by Chitra Divakaruni;
Wednesday:“Landscape with Flatiron” by Haruki Murakami; “When the Long Grass Bends” by Neela Vaswani
Thursday:Journal Check.Reader-Response Presentation; Elements of the Short Story
Week 4: July 23-July 27
Monday:“Half-Skinned Steer” by Annie Proulx
Tuesday:“Vampires in the Lemon Grove” by Karen Russell
Wednesday:Paper Due.“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin; “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amy Hempel
Thursday:Reader-Response Presentation; Elements of the Short Story
Week 5: July 30-August 3
Monday:“Marjorie Lemke” by Sarah Braunstein; “Suffer the Little Children” by Stephen King
Tuesday:“Recitatif” by Toni Morrison; “Nightingale” by Tobias Wolff
Wednesday:“These Hands” by Kevin Brockmeier
Thursday:Journals Due.Reader-Response Presentation; Elements of the Short Story
Friday:Final Exam