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
• 253
• Cory Archangel / Dash Snow
• Vivian Mayer / Daido Moriyama / Provoke
• Charles Simic
• Museum of Jurassic Technology