Syllabi – James McGirk

Syllabi

Graduate Seminars

“On Knowing When to Steal and Make Things Up” – Oklahoma City University MFA Program

James Ellroy “My Mother’s Killer“
Joan Didion “Why I Write“
David Foster Wallace “Big Red Son“
Tom Wolfe “The Birth of The New Journalism“

Undergraduate Seminars

“Travel and Adventure Writing” – Northeastern State University

Claude Levi-Strauss TRISTES TROPIQUES (excerpt)
David Shield REALITY HUNGER (excerpt)
Gary Lutz “The Sentence is a Lonely Place“
Wells Tower “Meltdown”
Italo Calvino INSVISIBLE CITIES
Susan Orlean “The Place to Disappear“
Leslie Jamison “The Empathy Exams“
“The History of Writing Through the Travelogue“
Marco Polo THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO
Mark Twain THE INNOCENTS ABROAD
Joseph Mitchell “Mohawks in High Steel“
Pamela Colloff “Lip Shtick“
P.J. O’Rourke HOLIDAYS IN HELL
David Foster Wallace “Shipping Out“
V.S. Naipaul AN AREA OF DARKNESS
Cheryl Strayed “The Love of My Life“

“Multi-Media Writing”

Robert Coover “A Future History of Narrative”
Vaporwave/Aesthetic
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Cory Archangel / Dash Snow
Vivian Mayer / Daido Moriyama / Provoke
Charles Simic
Museum of Jurassic Technology