Links

NPR's Three-Minute Fiction -- one of the models for our class

Barrelhouse Mag -- "fiction, poetry, pop flotsam, cultural jetsam"

PennSound -- a great way to hear poets and writers read their work

Quasi-unintelligibility -- poet and critic Timothy Donnelly discusses why "difficult" work is important

Wag's Revue -- one of my favorite (and one of the best looking) online mags

Top Ten Best Short Stories -- one of many such lists; includes many of the authors in our Anchor book

On Experimental Fiction -- an interesting take on the kind of work we're reading this term

Triggering Town -- Richard Hugo describes the difference between your first idea and your best idea

The Four Temperaments -- Are you more structured? musical? imaginative? story-telling?

What is College For? -- a great piece from The New York Times

Dear Student: I Don't Lie Awake at Night Thinking of Ways to Ruin Your Life -- written by a Rhodes professor

Significant Objects (& How They Got That Way) -- how storytelling gives meaningless objects value

Anne Carson Interview -- including bits about the composition of "Short Talks"