Interdisciplinary Arts 0274 - Creative Nonfiction Writing

"Any interruption," Lydia Davis has claimed of the fragmentary text, "either of our expectations or of the smooth surface of the work itself. . . keeps returning the reader not only to the real world but to a consciousness of his or her own mind at work." In this course-designed for students in the final semester of their Division 2, who have taken at least two writing workshops-we will read and write literary nonfiction (memoir, the personal essay, cultural criticism, etc.) that uses the fragment as form, as process, as metaphor.

Independent Work Writing and Research Interested students must attend the first meeting, and no one may register for this course until the first class has met. In this course, students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. This time includes reading, writing, responding to peers' work, and may include required attendance at or participation in writing-related events.