In this craft class we’ll explore how form and structure are inextricably wedded to the overall effect of a book. We’ll read five novels, a short story collection, and a memoir: the multi-phonic A Gathering of Old Men (Gaines) and The Sweet Hereafter (Banks), the first-person omniscient That Night (McDermott), a story within a story in Democracy (Didion), narratives nested and layered across time in Cloud Atlas (Mitchell), the resonant stories of Battleborn (Watkins), and the collage structure of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (Flynn). Writing assignments will be both creative and critical.
Keith Scribner
Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing (Prose)
Oregon State University
Moreland 308
2550 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis,
OR
97331 USA
Tel:
541-737-1645
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Keith Scribner’s teaching and research interests include explorations of class and the American dream in 20th century fiction, and the distinctions and cross-over between fiction and non-fiction. He has written three novels: The Oregon Experiment, Miracle Girl, and The GoodLife. The GoodLife appears in translation, was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Scribner received his BA from Vassar College and MFA from the University of Montana. He was awarded Wallace Stegner and John L’Heureux Fellowships in Fiction at Stanford University, where he went on to teach in the Creative Writing Program as a Jones Lecturer. In 2010-2011 he was a fellow at Oregon State University’s Center for the Humanities. His websites are http://keithscribner.com/ and http://www.facebook.com/KeithScribnerAuthor.
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