Links, Engl 3040 Literary Nonfiction Fall 2018, O'Donnell, ETSU

Engl 3040 Literary Nonfiction, Fall 2018

Links
last update: August 12, 2018

I. Reviews and Interviews: Books and Authors We're Reading in This Course

Nate Blakeslee

- Interview with Nate Blakeslee. "'American Wolf' Author on the Complicated Return of Wolves in the U.S." CBS This Morning Saturday, October 14, 2017. 3:52 run time. www.cbsnews.com/video/american-wolf-author-on-the-complicated-return-of-wolves-in-the-u-s/

- "Yellowstone’s Most Famous Wolf Gets Her Own Book [review of Blakeslee's American Wolf]." By Rick Bass. New York Times Book Review, December 1, 2017. www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/books/review/american-wolf-yellowstone-nate-blakeslee.html

Truman Capote

- "Capote’s Masterpiece ‘In Cold Blood’ Still Vivid at 50." By Jessica Ferri. The Daily Beast, December 28, 2016. www.thedailybeast.com/capotes-masterpiece-in-cold-blood-still-vivid-at-50

- "The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel" [interview with Truman Capote]. By George Plimpton. The New York Times, Jan 16, 1966. www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/28/home/capote-interview.html

Joan Didion

- "Places, People and Personalities" [review of Didion's "Slouching..."]. Dan Wakefield. New York Times. June 21, 1968. http://www.nytimes.com/1968/06/21/books/didion-bethlehem.html

Scott McClanahan

- "Book Review: Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place by Scott McClanahan -- Truth and Memory." [ SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW BEFORE YOU READ CRAPALACHIA! ] By Natalie Sypolt. PasteMagazine.com, February 5, 2013. www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/02/crapalachia-a-biography-of-a-place-by-scott-mcclan.html

Shittown (Brian Reed, host and executive producer)

- “S-Town” Investigates the Human Mystery." By Sarah Larson. The New Yorker, March 31, 2017. www.newyorker.com/culture/sarah-larson/s-town-investigates-the-human-mystery. (Click here for a cached pdf file.)

Art Spiegelman

- "Art Spiegelman’s Genre-Defying Holocaust Work, Revisited." By Ruth Franklin. The New Republic, October 5, 2011. newrepublic.com/article/95758/art-spiegelman-metamaus-holocaust-memoir-graphic-novel

Cheryl Strayed

- "The Tracks of an Author’s, and a Reader’s, Tears: ‘Wild’ by Cheryl Strayed, a Walkabout of Reinvention." By Dwight Garner. New York Times Book Review, March 27, 2012.

www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/books/wild-by-cheryl-strayed-a-walkabout-of-reinvention.html

- "The Outsiders: 'Wild' and 'Mr. Turner' [The Current Cinema]." By David Denby. The New Yorker, December 8, 2014. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/08/outsiders-5

D. F. Wallace

- "'A Supposedly Fun Thing': Musings on Life's Absurdities" [review of D. F. Wallace essay collection]. By Michiko Kakutani. New York Times, Feb 4, 1997. Posted at a D. F. Wallace fan site: www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/kakutani.html

II. On New Journalism

- "How Tom Wolfe Became … Tom Wolfe." By Michael Lewis. Vanity Fair, November 2015. www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/10/how-tom-wolfe-became-tom-wolfe

III. More on D.F. Wallace

- "An Appreciation: Exuberant Riffs on a Land Run Amok" [upon the death of David Foster Wallace]. Michiko Kakutani. New York Times. September 14, 2008. www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15kaku.html

- "The Rewriting of David Foster Wallace." By Christian Lorentzen. Vulture.com (a New York Magazine culture website). June 30, 2015. www.vulture.com/2015/06/rewriting-of-david-foster-wallace.html

- "Farther Away: 'Robinson Crusoe,' David Foster Wallace, and the island of solitude." By Jonathan Franzen. The New Yorker, April 18, 2011. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/18/farther-away-jonathan-franzen

IV. Digital Reading and Print

- "Do Students Lose Depth in Digital Reading?" By Naomi Baron. The Conversation July 20, 2016. theconversation.com/do-students-lose-depth-in-digital-reading-61897

- "The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: Why Paper Still Beats Screens--E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but reading on paper still has its advantages." By Ferris Jabr. Scientific American, vol 309, issue 5, November 2013. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-reading-brain-in-the-digital-age-why-paper-still-beats-screens/

- "Your Paper Brain and Your Kindle Brain Aren't the Same Thing." PRI (Public Radio International). Aired Sept 18, 2014. Radio news story with accompanying text. Running time: 5:37. www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-18/your-paper-brain-and-your-kindle-brain-arent-same-thing

- "In A Digital Chapter, Paper Notebooks Are As Relevant As Ever." By Eric Weiner. NPR (National Public Radio) -- Business. Aired May 27, 2015. Running time: 5:28. Transcript text is also at this website. www.npr.org/2015/05/27/408794237/in-a-digital-chapter-paper-notebooks-are-as-relevant-as-ever

V. Two Canonical Essays, for a Semester Unit on "The Essay"

- Michel de Montaigne. "Of Smels and Odors." Chapter LV of Montaigne's Essays. John Florio's English translation, first published in 1603. Online text provided by Ben R. Schneider, 1998. www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/montaigne/1lv.htm

- Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Circles." From Essays: First Series (1841). Click here for an 8-page pdf version, text copied from Bartleby.com.

VI. Some of the Assigned Course Readings Which Are Available Online

- "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again." By David Foster Wallace. Under the title "Shipping Out: On the (Nearly Lethal) Comforts of a Luxury Cruise," as it originally appeared in Harper's Magazine, January 1996. harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf

- "Consider the Lobster." By David Foster Wallace. Gourmet Magazine, August 2004. www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster. (Click here for a cached version.)