The personal essay is a uniquely playful and liberating literary form. It’s fun, but it’s not easy. More craft and conscious shaping is involved than people realize. We’ll read and discuss essays from Phillip Lopate’s Art of the Personal Essay and other examples of the form. We’ll do in-class exercises designed to help writers cultivate the ability to follow and record the undulations of their own thinking. Working in stages, we’ll each produce one substantial essay, offering one another constructive criticism and encouragement along the way.
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Writers Workshops
PERSONAL ESSAY 2018-205
About the instructor
EMILY FOX GORDON is the author of four books: Book of Days: Personal Essays (a New York Times Editor’s Choice), Mockingbird Years: A Life in and out of Therapy (a New York Times Notable Book), Are You Happy? A Childhood Remembered (a New York Times Editor’s Choice), and It Will Come to Me (a novel). She has taught at universities across the country, including Columbia, Rutgers, University of Wyoming, Rice, and UH, and has led Inprint workshops for 20 years.
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