Wayne
Garcia
waynegar@tampabay.rr.com
(813)
832-6427
TC
= Truman Capote, "In Cold Blood"
TW = Tom Wolfe, "The Right Stuff"
HST = Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
PG = Philip Gerard, "Creative Nonfiction"
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Joan
Didion from "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" |
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Joe
Eszterhas, "Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse" |
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Norman
Mailer, from "Executioner's Song" or "Armies of the
Night" |
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John
McPhee |
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Tracy
Kidder, from "Home Town" |
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David
Isay (transcript of Sunshine Hotel) |
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Gay
Talese, from "Thy Neighbor's Wife" |
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Michael
Herr, from "Dispatches" |
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Ernest
Hemingway, from "Death in the Afternoon" |
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John
Hersey, from "Hiroshima" |
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Lillian
Ross, "Portrait of Hemingway" |
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Humorists:
Dave Barry, P.J. O'Rourke, Molly Ivins, Calvin Trillin |
- Course
introduction; New Journalism, Literary Journalism and the Nonfiction
Novel; Course expectations and requirements
- Topics:
Truman Capote and the Nonfiction Novel; "In Cold Blood"
- A&E
Biography video on Capote
- Reading
Assignment: First 50 pages TC; First 2 chapters PG
- Topic:
Dissecting In Cold Blood; The Story Idea and the Importance of
Reporting
- Reading
Assignment: TC through the first 2 sections; PG, chapters 3
& 7
- Topic:
Completing In Cold Blood; Columnists, humor and human
interest.
- Reading
Assignment: Finish In Cold Blood; Southern, "Twirling at
Ole Miss" (handout)
- Topic:
Hippie Culture New Journalism as response to Social Change
- Reading
Assignment: Joe Ezsterhas, from "Charlie Simpson's
Apocalypse"; HST, "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and
Depraved"; PG, Chapters 5-6
- Story
#1 (wild card) due at beginning of class.
- Topic:
Book critique/analysis due at beginning of class
- Topic:
Death & War: From the front lines & other grisly scenes:
John Hersey; Michael Herr; John Steinbeck & Ernie Pyle (Now, there's
a dinner party guest list)
- Reading
Assignment: Hersey, "The Unforgettable Fire" (excerpt);
Herr, "Hell Sucks" (excerpt); Pyle, "The Story of
Capt. Waskow"; John Steinbeck, "Lilli Marlene;" PG,
Chapter 8
- Story
#2 (feature) due at the beginning of class.
- Topic:
Lillian Ross; Joan Didion; Edna Buchanan
- Reading
Assignment: Lillian Ross, "Portrait of Hemingway"; Joan
Didion, "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream"; Trillin's New
Yorker article on Edna Buchanan; PG, Chapter 9
- Topic:
Class Assignments review; Using First Person effectively
- Topic:
Dr. William McKeen - The contribution of Tom Wolfe to nonfiction
writing.
- Reading
Assignment: TW entire book
- Story
#3 (crime) due at the beginning of class.
- Topic:
Norman Mailer and special guest star: Mailer's Ego
- Reading
assignments: Mailer handouts: PG, Chapters 10-11
- Story
#4 (wild card) due at beginning of class.
- Topic:
Dr. Gonzo & the Banshee's Scream: Hunter S. Thompson blurs the
lines between fact and fiction (plus Tracy Kidder, Joe McGinniss,
John McPhee & Gay Talese)
- Reading
Assignment: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas; Jacket Copy (rejected)
for F&L; Kidder, McGinniss, McPhee and Talese selections TBA
- Author
research paper due at the beginning of class
- Thanksgiving
holiday, NO CLASS
- The
End of Our Journey, out on the edge of the desert
- George
Plimpton; The Art of Interviewing and the use of Oral Biography
- Reading
Assignments: Plimpton, from "Paper Tigers" or Capote bio;
PG, Chapter 4
- Real
Dialogue: The relationship between sound and print David Isay's
"Sunshine Hotel"
- Class
Party
- Reading
Assignment: "Sunshine Hotel" transcript (handout)
- All
published rewrites due with original graded work for re-grading.
- Story
#5 (public affairs) due at beginning of class.
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