August 31
Wikipedia Entries: Merry Clayton; Dory Previn; Eve Babitz
Obituaries: Christopher Isherwood; Ralph Neves; Judee Sill

September 7
Eve Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood
Paul John Eakin, “Talking about Ourselves: The Rules of the Game”
Reading responses: Daniel, Avril, Sarah, Julian, Sandy, Annabelle, Sandra

September 14
Lili Anolik, Hollywood’s Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
Carolyn Heilbrun, “Introduction,” Writing a Woman’s Life
Footnote samples
Reading responses: Myka, Lucy, Karen, Abby, Brittany, Ian, Chu-Ping
Workshop: Footnotes

Monday, September 19
Footnotes due: Post to our site; post a comment on at least two students’ footnotes before class Wednesday

September 21
Bridgett Davis, The World According to Fannie Davis
Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory”
Reading responses: Daniel, Avril, Sarah, Julian, Sandy, Annabelle, Sandra
Guest: Bridgett Davis

September 28 (online)
One Year: 1977, “Jesus on a Tortilla”
Hidden Brain, “The Story of Your Life” & “You Can’t Hit Unsend”
Vivian Gornick, “The Situation and the Story” (Introduction + Essay chapter)
Workshop: “The Situation and the Story”
Reading responses: Myka, Lucy, Karen, Abby, Brittany, Ian, Chu-Ping

October 5
No class

October 12
Phillip Gourevitch & Nicholas Christopher, “The Ethics of Memoir Writing”
Maia, “Whose Story?: The Ethics of Writing Memoir”
Edmund White, “Collatoral Damage: How I Lost a Friend and Ex-Lover by Writing about Him”
Mary Karr, “The Liars Club: How I Told My Friends I Was Writing about Them and What They Said in Return”
Jason Tougaw, “Memory and Memoir”
Workshop: Obituary, Wikipedia Page, or Preface
Reading responses: Daniel, Avril, Sarah, Julian, Sandy, Annabelle, Sandra

Monday, October 17
Obituaries, Wikipedia pages, or Prefaces due; comment on at least two students’ posts before class Wednesday

October 19
Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib, Lost Notes: 1980, “Grace Jones”
Workshop: Structure and repetition
Reading responses: Myka, Lucy, Karen, Abby, Brittany, Ian, Chu-Ping

October 26
Anything for Selena, Episode 1, “Selena and Me” & Episode 2: “Selena and Abraham”
Twitter account for Anything for Selena podcast; Instagram account forAnything for Selena podcast
Twitter account for Dory Previn Documentary; Instagram account for Anything for Selena podcast
Workshop: Social Media Posts, Letters to an agent, or letter to a peer
Reading responses: Daniel, Avril, Sarah, Julian, Sandy, Annabelle, Sandra

November 2
GB Tran, Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey
Workshop: Playing with chronology
Reading responses: Myka, Lucy, Karen, Abby, Brittany, Ian, Chu-Ping

Monday, November 7
Social Media Posts, Letters to an agent, or letter to a peer due; comment on at least two students’ posts before class Wednesday

November 9
S-Town, Chapters 1 & 2
Reading responses: Daniel, Avril, Sarah, Julian, Sandy, Annabelle, Sandra

November 16
Nancy K. Miller, My Brilliant Friends
Reading responses: Myka, Lucy, Karen, Abby, Brittany, Ian, Chu-Ping
Guest: Nancy K. Miller

November 23 (online)
Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Workshop: Voice and Sources
No Reading responses

November 30
Vivian Gornick, “The Essay”
Essay Workshop

December 7
Essay workshop

December 18
Essays due, via email