All entries for Tuesday 13 October 2009

Practice of Fiction Week 1 Notes

Here are the weblinks/texts I referenced during the first session:

Online:

Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/

Valentino Achak Deng’s charity
http://www.valentinoachakdeng.org/
(Video there of the school in Marial Bai.)

The Believer
http://www.believermag.com/

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (the main magazine):
http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.list/object_id/9772B00C-B37F-4915-88F8-8ED96E79EBF1/Journals.cfm

The Wholphin (DVD Magazine):
http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/2AF2AE97-8E22-4F9C-AC58-FA31F8D5347F/WholphinDVDSubscription.cfm

826Valencia
http://www.826valencia.org/
(I thought it was outside of San Francisco during class - I was wrong:
"We are located at 826 Valencia between 19th and 20th Streets in the Mission District of San Francisco. ")

Dave Eggers' TED Talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school.html

Dave Eggers' Short Short Stories at The Guardian:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/shortshortstories/0,,1178980,00.html
(These were redrafted for his Penguin collection.)

Dave Eggers' Short and Sweet article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/jun/18/shortshortstories.fiction

Donald Barthelme website, Barthelmismo:
http://www.eskimo.com/~jessamyn/barth/

Reading:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers

What is the What, by Dave Eggers & Valentino Achak Deng

The Believer Magazine, ed. Vendela Vida (Dave's wife)

The Believer Book of Writers Talking Writers (revised & expanded), ed. Vendela Vida

The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets, ed. Dominic Luxford

A partial and poorly informed list of writers sometimes connected to McSweeney's:

Robert Coover

Nick Hornby

Zadie Smith

Michael Chabon

George Ttoouli : 13 Oct 2009 14:00 |  Tags: 826Valencia Creative Writing Dave Eggers Mcsweeneys Practice Of Fiction Valentino Achak Deng |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem