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Travel Writing (EGL 145)
Walter Benjamin wrote, “And because distance, when it snows, leads no longer out into the world but within, so Baghdad and Babylon, Acre and Alaska, Tromsö and Transvaal were places within me.” In other words, there is more than one way to travel: we can voyage through the exterior world and through the landscapes of our inner lives. Using these two notions of travel, this course focuses on getting stories from our own life journeys onto the page. How do we write about an exciting trip without draining the excitement out of it? Where did our families come from and what did they leave behind? We will examine successful nonfiction travel writing, and we will use other genres to expand our technical repertoires. Above all, we will attentively workshop our own pieces, helping each other get closer to where we wish to be.
Shane Book
Former Stegner Fellow
Shane Book received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His writing appears in US, UK, and Canadian journals and is widely anthologized, most recently in Gathering Ground. He has taught at New York University, the University of Iowa, and Randolph-Macon College. His other honors include a New York Times Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets prize, and a National Magazine Award. The recipient of a 2008 Sacatar Foundation Fellowship to Brazil, he is currently working on the documentary film, Laborland.
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Course Details
Tuesdays
6:15 - 9:05 pm
10 weeks
Sept 23 - Dec 2
3 units $555
Limit: 21
Drop by: Oct 6
(No class on November 25)
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