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