AY20 NWP Course Readings See below for the course readings in the 2019-2020 BUMC Narrative Writing Program (subject to change): September 5th ‘Perfectionism’ & ‘Shitty First Drafts’ by Anne Lamott ‘First Love’ by Richard Weinberg, MD ‘Stories Doctors Tell’ by Tracy Moniz, PhD, et al. (optional) October 3rd ‘The Ship Pounding’ by Donald Hall ‘The Shadows’ by Jane Kenyon ‘Point of View: Enhancing Your Narrative Voice’ – quick overview at the Huffington Post ‘Point of View’ from The Art of Fiction by John Gardner (optional) November 7th The-Yellow-Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman ‘Character’ from Bird by Bird by Anne Lammott December 5th ‘Plotting’ from The Art of Fiction by John Gardner ‘Structure’ in the The New Yorker by John McPhee ‘The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy’ by Michael Paterniti January 16th ‘Poems’ (please read at least one of these poem) Three Pieces by Natalie Goldberg Conversation with Maria Mazziotti Gillan Links to Optional Readings February 6th ‘When a Duplicate Family Moves In’ by Carol Berman, MD (NYT) ‘She Thinks of Horses: And waits for the one true Jake’ by Joy Jacobson, MFA (AJN) ‘All Father’s the Father’ by Emmett Stinson, PhD, MA (The Age) Optional: ‘To Understand Facebook, Study Capgras Syndrome’ by Robert Sapolsky, PhD (Nautilus) March 5th ‘Short Assignments’ by Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird) ‘The Patch’ by John McPhee (The New Yorker) April 2nd ‘The Swimmer’ by John Cheever (The New Yorker) ‘Baptism by Rotation’ by Mikhail Bulgakov (A Country Doctor’s Notebook) ‘Off-Label Scripts: Physicians-as-Writers, Patients-as-Readers’ by James Van Oosting (The Hedgehog Review) June 4th from The Art of Description: Word into World by Mark Doty from My Own Country by Abraham Verghese
See below for the course readings in the 2019-2020 BUMC Narrative Writing Program (subject to change):See below for the course readings in the 2019-2020 BUMC Narrative Writing Program (subject to change):