On the day of each reaction paper presentation, come to class prepared to begin discussion of the work in question by presenting your "reaction" orally to the class. After your presentation, you must also hand a two to three-page (double-spaced) reaction paper in to me as well. The dates listed here are the dates currently on the syllabus; it is possible that we may have to get to some reaction papers a day or more later than the dates given here.

Monday, September 5

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"-- Alex Meijer

Wednesday, September 7

Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener"

Friday, September 9

Anton Chekhov, "The Lady With the Little Dog"

Monday, September 12

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" -- Jill McGovern

Wednesday, September 14

Franz Kafka, "The Metamorphosis" -- Bryan Richman

Friday, September 16

Franz Kafka, "The Hunger Artist" (both versions) 

Wednesday, September 21

James Joyce, "Araby" -- Alex Meijer

Toni Cade Bambara, "The Lesson"

Friday, September 23

James Joyce, "The Dead"

Monday, October 3

Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"-- Jill McGovern

Friday, October 14

D. H. Lawrence, "Odour of Chrysanthemums"

John Steinbeck, "The Chrysanthemums" -- Elizabeth Bacharach

Monday, October 17

William Faulkner, "That Evening Sun" -- Lauren Buckley

Wednesday, October 19

Flannery O'Connor, "Good Country People" -- Ben Kellar

Friday, October 21

Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" -- Molly Marren

Monday, October 24

Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" -- Marissa DelFavero

Wednesday, October 26

Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal" -- Bryan Richman

Wednesday, November 2

Zora Neale Hurston, "The Gilded Six-Bits" -- Jarrod Musiak

Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat" -- Dani Frank

Friday, November 4

Tadeusz Borowski, "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"

Cynthia Ozick, "The Shawl" -- Sara Davis

Monday, November 7

Frank O'Connor, "Guests of the Nation" -- Matt Reed

Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried" -- Elizabeth Bacharach

Friday, November 11

Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"-- Marissa DelFavero

Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" -- Matt Reed

Monday, November 14

Raymond Carver, "A Small, Good Thing" -- Alex Peter

Wednesday, November 16

Raymond Carver, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" -- Phillip Leite

Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" -- Molly Marren

Friday, November 18

Philip Roth, "The Conversion of the Jews" -- Sara Davis

Nicole Krauss, "The Last Words on Earth"

Monday, November 21

Louise Erdrich, "The Red Convertible" -- Dani Frank

Leslie Marmon Silko, "Yellow Woman" -- Alex Peter

Monday, November 28

Aimee Bender, "The Rememberer" -- Philipp Leite

Lydia Davis, "Television"

Tobias Wolff, "Say Yes" -- Jarrod Musiak

Wednesday, November 30

Amy Tan, "Two Kinds" -- Lauren Buckley

Gish Jen, "Who's Irish?" -- Ben Kellar