Periodical Journalism
(Creative Writing)
Instructor: Brock Brower, Mals
bhbrower@aol.com
Schedule: Mondays & Wednesdays, 2 – 4pm
Location: TBA
Description:
The seminar would cover all manner of writing that appears in today's periodicals: articles, criticism, essays — light, personal, or defining — reviews, first-hand reporting, editorial commentary. The aim would be to acquaint students with the range of popular, general, and intellectual publications in America, but the emphasis is on the qualities of writing found in the best of the "higher journalism". Students would be assigned readings in both present and past periodical literature.
A typical sample: several Spectator Papers, Jonathan Swift's Drapier's Letters or William Hazlitt's essays, on through Tom Wolfe's Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and selections from the Vietnam reportage in the Library of America. But the basic work would be done minds open, hands on, in editorial sessions, with students critiquing each other's reporting, commentary, reviews, etc.
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