Creative Writers’ Resource Center

This page was originally created for my students in Beginning Creative Writing-Fiction at the University of New Mexico. The syllabus I used is here, along with some class materials, if you want to see how one person structured a beginning-fiction class. Keeping links updated is a constant challenge, so I’d appreciate your letting me know if you come across any that are not working.



Last updated:
30 June 2007

TwoTwoOne – A Student Fiction ‘Zine. Short stories from English 221 classes.

Before you begin: Some of the sites you will find here are designated “web-archived.” What that means is either that (a) the original host either no longer exists or (b) that it has stopped hosting the site. But “dead” web pages can often be resurrected via web archives. When I have linked to a web-archived site or document, I’ve tried to let you know that so you won’t be surprised if you find that some of the original material is missing (photos and graphics are particularly likely to disappear) or that some of the document’s internal links no longer function. Caveat browser.

 

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Kathy Acker

Sherman Alexie

 Dorothy Allison

Sherwood Anderson

Jane Armstrong

Margaret Atwood

 James Baldwin

Toni Cade Bambara

Donald Barthelme

Richard Bausch

Ann Beattie

Stefano Benni

T. Coraghessan Boyle

 Truman Capote

Raymond Carver

Anton Chekhov

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Kate Chopin

Robert Coover

Melvin Dixon

Louise Erdrich

William Faulkner

 E. M. Forster

Mary Gaitskill

William Gass

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

 Allan Ginsberg

Nikolaj Gogol

Barry Hannah

 Joy Harjo

Ernest Hemingway

bell hooks

Zora Neale Hurston

Shirley Jackson

W[illiam] W[yman] Jacobs

Henry James

James Joyce

Jamaica Kincaid

Stephen King

Jhumpa Lahiri

 David Leavitt

Doris Lessing

Katherine Mansfield

Paule Marshall

Terry McMillan

 Yukio Mishima

Lorrie Moore

Toni Morrison

Tim O’Brien

Flannery O’Connor

Dorothy Parker

Sylvia Plath

Edgar Allan Poe

Thomas Pynchon

Arundhati Roy

 Saki (H. H. Munro)

J.D. Salinger

Enid Shomer

Leslie Marmon Silko

Jane Smiley

 Susan Sontag

Jean Stafford

Wallace Stegner

Helena María Viramontes

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Eudora Welty

Edith Wharton

 Walt Whitman

 Oscar Wilde

 

 = LGBT writer

Acker, Kathy 

·         Dead Doll Humility (from PostModern Culture, 1990) [06/30/07]

·         Obsession (from PostModern Culture, 1992) [06/30/07]

·         “Theoretical Grrrl: The Legacy of Kathy Acker” - perceptive article by C. Carr from The Village Voice [06/30/07]

·         “Kathy Acker, Clarion of Entropy” - Mark Pritchard’s remembrance of Acker the month after her death in 1997; includes useful links [06/30/07]

·         Kathy Acker (1944-1997) (collection of links)

·         Kathy Acker Interview by R. U. Sirius (io, c. 1997) [06/30/07]

·         Mark/Space’s Kathy Acker links [06/30/07]

·         Kathy Acker website

·         “In Memoriam to Kathy Acker: A Deleuze and Guattarian Approach” by Robert Lort

Alexie, Sherman

·         The Official Sherman Alexie Site [06/30/07]

·         I Hated Tonto (Still Do) Sherman Alexie recalls growing up with stereotype movie Indians. Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1998 [06/30/07]

·         What It Means to Be Sherman Alexie (profile by Russ Spencer from Book, July/August 2000) [06/30/07]

·         Modern American Poetry’s Alexie site [06/30/07]

·         At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School  (poem) [06/30/07]

·         A Train is an Order of Occurrence Designed to Lead to Some Result (short story) [06/30/07]

·         Defending Walt Whitman (poem) [06/30/07]

·         At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994 (poem) [06/30/07]

·         A Reservation Table of the Elements (poem)

Allison, Dorothy

·         Talking Trash - The Interview (Marilee Strong’s interview with Dorothy Allison for San Francisco Focus)

·         The Salon InterviewLaura Miller

·         “Dorothy Allison: The Value of Redemption”by Kathleen Wilkinson (Curve, 2001)

Anderson, Sherwood

·         “Hands” (Perhaps Anderson’s best known story, from Winesburg, Ohio) [.pdf] [06/29/07]

·         Winesburg, Ohio[complete online text] [06/29/07]

Armstrong, Jane

      • Cartwheel  (A short story that uses language and geography as symbols of ... what?) [online text] [06/29/07]

Atwood, Margaret

·         Three Short Pieces by Margaret Atwood (excerpted from Good Bones, reprinted from the Mississippi Review, 1995) at the MR archive. [online text] [06/29/07]

·         O. W. Toad’s Margaret Atwood Information Site [06/29/07]

·         Brittney Goodman’s collection of Margaret Atwood links, including references/study guides to particular works [06/29/07]

·         Mother Jones magazine’s 1997 interview with Margaret Atwood [06/29/07]

·         Wired for Books Atwood Interview (RealPlayer audio player required) [06/29/07]

·         “Blood and Laundry” (Laura Miller interview from Salon) [06/29/07]

·         Every Wife’s Nightmare“ -Review of The Robber Bride by Lorrie Moore [06/29/07]

Baldwin, James

·         Feature contains a bio, book list, excerpt, and links

·         Whose Harlem is This, Anyway?“ - Baldwin’s last essay, published in Essence, November 1996

·         James Baldwin: An Appreciation by John Stevenson, from the Boston Book Review

·         link to RealAudio recording of a 1979 interview with Baldwin (scroll down to find the link or open the .ram file directly here )

·         Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White - Baldwin in the NY Times, April 9, 1967

·         The American Dream and the American Negro- Baldwin in the NY Times, March 7, 1965

·         Last of the Great Masters - Baldwin on Toni Morrison

·         How One Black Man Came To Be an American: A Review of Roots - Baldwin article for the NY Times

·         An Open Letter to Mr. Carter - Baldwin’s letter regarding the imprisonment of Ben Chavis, January 23, 1977

·         If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? - NY Times, July 29, 1979

·         Trapped Inside James Baldwin - Michael Anderson’s review of Baldwin’s Collected Essays

·         Autobiographical Notes - Baldwin’s introduction to his Collected Essays

Bambara, Toni Cade

·         The Lesson “ from Gorilla, My Love by Toni Cade Bambara [.pdf] [06/29/07]

·         In Praise of Toni Cade Bambara - Tributes on the author’s death, including QuickTime video [06/29/07]

·         Toni Cade Bambara, Empowering the Community that Names Her - article by Dorothy Harris from African American Women’s Literature site [06/29/07]

·         Toni Cade Bambara biography and bibliography from the Voices from the Gaps site [06/29/07]

Barthelme, Donald

·         Jessamyn.com - the main source of Barthelmiana on the web; includes links to online texts of quite a few Barthelme stories)

·         Mutant Anxiety: On Reading Barthelme’s Narrator in “Me and Miss Mandible “ - David Amadio’s essay from Conventions of Reading

·         Barthelme section from The Scriptorium site - good introductory essay by Gus Negative [06/29/07]

·         Classroom Issues and Strategies for Barthelme - compiled by Linda Wagner-Martin and Charles Molesworth

·         More Barthleme links and excerpts on this quirky site

·         “The first thing the baby did wrong....” - a funny and often anthologized Barthelme story [06/29/07]

Bausch, Richard

·         August 1998 Atlantic Monthly interview with the author

·         “Two Altercations” (a story by Bausch from the Fall 1996 issue of Ploughshares) [online text]

·         Richard Bausch page and bibliography (web-archived site) [06/29/07]

·         HarperCollins.com “Reader’s Guide“ to Bausch’s novel Hello the Cannibals

·         The Wife’s Tale - Bausch story from Ploughshares [06/29/07]

Benni, Stefano

·         A unique, wacky, and wonderful Italian writer - the Italian Borges! (In Italian) [online texts of stories and other writing] [06/29/07]

Beattie, Ann

·         Where Characters Come From (essay from the Mississippi Review) [06/30/07]

·         Profile of Ann Beattie from Ploughshares [06/29/07]

·         Review of Another You from Philadelphia City Paper [06/30/07]

·         Boston Phoenix interview “Ann Beattie Opens Up” by Chris Wright [06/30/07]

Boyle, T. Coraghessan

·         “What Is This Bee?” (Boyle on the perils of giving public readings, from the LA Weekly) [06/30/07]

·         Sandye Utley’s T. C. Boyle Resource Center [06/30/07]

·         Gregory Daurer’s conversation with Boyle from Salon

·         Boyle interview from Philadelphia City Paper [06/29/07]

·         Boyle interview and discussion of his novel, Riven Rock [06/29/07]

·         Reinhard Donath’s T. C. Boyle: The Author and his works [06/30/07]

·         New York Times’ Featured Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle [free, but may require you to register] [06/30/07]

·         TCBoyle.com (the official site) [06/29/07]

Capote, Truman

·         Truman Capote: A Black + White Tribute [06/29/07]

·         New York Times’ More on Truman Capote [free, but may require you to register] [06/29/07]

·         Interview with George Plimpton about his book, Truman Capote, In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career [06/29/07]

·         Good synopsis from Books and Writers [06/29/07]

·         The PBS website has materials coordinated with its “American Masters” special on Capote [06/29/07]

·         Golden Boy: The Life & Letters of Truman Capote.” Very nice Thomas Mallon New Yorker piece reviewing the publication of Capote’s collected letters, but full of gossipy tidbits about Capote himself. [.pdf] [06/29/07]

Carver, Raymond

Chekhov, Anton

Chesnutt, Charles Waddell

      • The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line [online text] (Pub’d 1901, by Houghton Mifflin) Chesnutt’s second book of stories includes: The Wife of His Youth, Her Virginia Mammy, The Sheriff’s Children, A Matter of Principle, Cicely’s Dream, The Passing of Grandison, Uncle Wellington’s Wives, The Bouquet, and The Web of Circumstance.
      • Chesnutt’s best known novel is The Conjure Woman [online text], published in 1899 
      • The Colonel’s Dream [1905 novel; online text by UC-Chapel Hill “Documenting the American South project]
      • Perspectives in American Literature s Chesnutt resources [06/29/07]

Chopin, Kate

Coover, Robert

¨        The Permeable Boundaries of Cyberspace, or How many times do we have to kill the Author? (by Eric Crump, University of Missouri; Crump discusses the notion of hypertext, cyberfiction, and, in particular, Coover’s famous 1992 New York Times Book Review essay in which he announced “the death of the book”) [06/29/07]

¨        And here’s that essay: “The End of Books [06/29/07]

¨        “The Heresy of Hypertext: Fear and Anxiety in the Late Age of Print” (1995 John Tolva essay: “Despite exaggerated reports of its demise, the codex book is not dead - but ... it isn’t likely to remain the dominant means of textual dissemination. So the question is not if computers will transform our notion of reading and writing, but instead how?”) [06/29/07]

¨        Inquiring Minds: Robert Coover on e-publishing [06/29/07]

Dixon, Melvin

¨        Aunt Ida Pieces A Quilt (poem) [06/29/07]

Erdrich, Louise

¨        Native American Authors Project’s Louise Erdrich page (annotated index of links)

¨        Voices from the Gaps’ Louise Erdrich site

¨        “Two Languages in Mind, but Just One in the Heart” by Louise Erdrich (New York Times 22 May 2000) [free, but may require you to register] [06/29/07]

¨        Andrew O. Wiget’s reading/study guide to Erdrich [06/29/07]

¨        Louise Erdrich explores mysteries and miracles on the reservation“ - 2001 Alden Mudge interview [06/29/07]

¨        The Salon Interview: “The Creative Instinct” - by Robert Spillman (Salon, 1996) [06/29/07]

¨        More Love Medicine“ - “Louise Erdrich says writing is her passion, not her political platform” (Polly Sprenger profile and bio at A&E, 11 Apr. 1996) [06/29/07]

¨        Review of Tales of Burning Love, Erdrich’s sixth novel [06/29/07]

¨        Louise Erdrich: Noteworthy Free Web-Sites – some of these many links are down, but there’s much good info here. [12/03/09]

Faulkner, William

¨        The Definitive Internet Guide to Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner

¨        Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (December 10, 1950)

¨        The Center for Faulkner studies, Southeast Missouri State University. Also see the Center’s journal, Teaching Faulker

¨        A Rose for Emily: Selected Bibliography of Criticism

¨        The Mississippi Writers’ Page - Faulkner material

¨        “WAS” by William Faulkner [online text]

¨        A Rose for Emily [online text]

¨        Spotted Horses [online text] (web-archived document)

Forster, E. M.

¨        The Machine Stops (bizarre 1909 sci-fi story by EMF) [online text]

¨        “Only Connect” - The Unofficial E.M. Forster website

¨        “Connecting with E.M. Forster“ (excellent Sidney Perkowitz essay from The American Prospect)

¨        Shergood Forest’s Forster info

¨        Cybella’s “A Passage Through E.M. Forster site [06/29/07]

¨        The Novels of E. M. Forster (essay by Virginia Woolf from the November, 1927, issue of The Atlantic Monthly)

¨        Somewhat acid consideration of “closeted” Forster from Andrew Hodges and David Hutter’s 1974 gay liberation pamphlet, With Downcast Gays

¨        Information about Queer Forster, “a radical revision of gay criticism [that] focuses on E. M. Forster’s place in the emerging field of queer studies” - U. Chicago Press

¨        Information about films made from Forster’s novels: A Room with a ViewHowards EndMauriceWhere Angels Fear to Tread

¨        Online texts: View; The Longest Journey; Where Angels Fear to Tread

¨        Pharos’ E.M. Forster site - Forster in Egypt

¨        “Transvaluing immaturity: reverse discourses of male homosexuality in E.M. Forster’s posthumously published fiction” - Critical article by Stephen Da Silva

¨        Donna J. Pridmore’s Forster page, with numerous links to online texts. [06/29/07]

¨        Whose books once influenced mine:”: The relationship between E.M. Forster’s Howards End and Virginia Woolf’s The Waves - Michael J. Hoffman essay from Twentieth Century Literature  [06/29/07]

Gaitskill, Mary

¨        Alexander Laurence’s 1994 Interview with Mary Gaitskill [06/30/07]

¨        “My Inspiration: Vladimir Nabokov - Sorcery of Cruelty”  (Mary Gaitskill’s article for salon.com) [06/30/07]

¨        Gaitskill’s quirky review of The Hunchback of Notre Dame [06/30/07]

¨        The Dentist“ - story from Gaitskill’s Because They Wanted To [06/30/07]

Gass, William

¨        Gary Percesepe’s essay, “What’s Eating William Gass?from the Mississippi Review  [06/30/07]

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

¨        Charlotte Perkins Gilman Newsletter and information about the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society

¨        The Giant Wistaria“ - another Gilman online story [06/30/07]

¨        Kim Wells’ “Domestic Goddess” site - Gilman resources [web-archived document] [06/30/07]

¨        Herland (Gilman’s sci-fi, utopian novel) [online text at Project Gutenberg]

¨        Elaine Hedges’ Gilman study and classroom guide [06/30/07]

¨        Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminization of Education“ - Deborah M. De Simone essay at Digital Library

¨        Perspectives in American Literature - Gilman resources (primarily bibliographic)

¨        The Yellow Wallpaper“ and “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper‘“

¨        Wonderful Cornell University site with images of the actual pages of The Yellow Wallpaper as it appeared in The New England Magazine in 1892

¨        A Psychoanalytical Approach to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” - (by Bryan D. Bourn) (web-archived document)

¨        Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper: A Poetics of the Inside - essay by Beth Snyder [06/30/07]

Ginsberg, Allan

¨        NY Times obit, April 6, 1997  [06/30/07]

¨        Beat laureate Allen Ginsberg goes bananas“ - Controversial interview Ginsberg gave to the NAMBLA Bulletin  [06/30/07]

¨        Ashes and Blues- nice site maintained by Dharmaggedon  [06/30/07]

Gogol, Nikolaj

¨        The Overcoat,” well known short story that figured so importantly in Jhumpa Lahiri’s, The Namesake. [.pdf] [06/30/07]

Hannah, Barry

¨        The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville High School - Barry Hannah page (links and bio)

¨        Hannah material at the Mississippi Writers’ Page [06/30/07]

¨        Interview with Barry Hannah, Mississippi Review  [06/30/07]

¨        Murder and Madness in Mississippi - Bookpage.com interview/feature focusing on Hannah’s novel, Yonder Stands Your Orphan  [06/30/07]

¨        First chapter of Yonder Stands Your Orphan from the Houston Chronicle

Harjo, Joy

¨        Perhaps the World Ends Here (poem)  [06/30/07]

¨        The Place The Musician Becomes A Bear (poem)  [06/30/07]

¨        She Had Some Horses (poem)  [06/30/07]

¨        Official Joy Harjo sitewith nice photos and good links to Harjo’s poetry (many online) and music  [06/30/07]

¨        Joy Harjo’s Web Log [06/30/07]

¨        Voices from the Gaps - Harjo resources  [06/30/07]

Hemingway, Ernest

·    The Hemingway Blog (David Gagne’s pages; many links) [06/30/07]

·    The Papa Page (good links, photos, biography - web-archived site) [06/30/07]

·    Ernest Hemingway at 100 (Kansas City Star’s birthday tribute & related links, including audio & video)

·    Virtual Hemingway at the Hemingway Society’s site - many links  [06/30/07]

·    Hemingway’s war correspondence, 1917-1918 for the Kansas City Star . Steve Paul’s introductory article from The Hemingway Review is here. [06/30/07]

·    The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum - information about the famous six-toed cats!  [06/30/07]

·    The Lost Generation - Nancy Kaiser’s fine site at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill; see additional links to other “Lost Generation Players” at the bottom

·    Tracking Hemingway - essay on considerations of Hemingway by Atlantic Monthly writers over nearly 50 years [06/30/07]

hooks, bell

¨        Learning in the Shadow of Race and Class - essay from the Chronicle of Higher Education [06/30/07]

¨        Voices from the Gaps - bell hooks material

¨        Postmodern Blackness - important 1990 essay from Postmodern Culture  [06/30/07]

¨        Sexism and Misogyny: Who Takes the Rap?- Z Magazine 1994 [06/30/07]

¨        On Death and Patriarchy in Crooklyn - another from Z Magazine [06/30/07]

¨        First chapter of Killing Rage: Ending Racism, courtesy of Booknotes.org [06/30/07]

¨        Booknotes transcript of November 19, 1995 interview with hooks [06/30/07]

Hurston, Zora Neale

¨        Negroes Without Self-Pity - 1943 essay by Hurston from The American Mercury

¨        The Resurrection of Zora Neale Hurston and Her Work“ (Extract from Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer’s Activism by Alice Walker, 1997.)

¨        About.com’s consideration of Hurston’s autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road

¨        Kip’s Zora Neale Hurston page [06/29/07]

¨        Voices from the Gaps (includes ZNH biography and bibliography) [06/29/07]

¨        Zora Neale Hurston biography [06/29/07]

¨        Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts & Humanities [06/29/07]

¨        Spunk“ [online text] [06/29/07]

¨        The Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive (with online texts of stories & essays) [06/29/07]

¨        “The Gilded Six-Bits” and “Sweat” [short stories; online text] Florida Gulf Coast University website w/comment on and analysis  [06/29/07]

Jackson, Shirley

¨        The Haunted World of Shirley Jackson“ - interesting site; check out scans of photos from a Jackson bio [06/29/07]

¨        The Lottery“ [online text] [06/29/07]

¨        A Reading of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery“ - nice essay by Peter Kosenko from the New Orleans Review [06/29/07]

¨        Monstrous Acts and Little Murders“ (A new collection of unpublished stories betrays the two faces of Shirley Jackson, the writer who created “The Lottery” - from salon.com.) [06/29/07]

¨        The Works of Shirley Jackson: Biography - Bibliography - Criticism - Resources (Virginia Commonwealth University site) [06/29/07]

Jacobs, W[illiam] W[yman]

James, Henry

¨        The Henry James Scholar’s Guide to Web Sites

¨        The Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University plus link to the Henry James Society

¨        Books & Writers’ Henry James site

¨        Henry James as Landlord – by Lois Boit (A correspondence that began in 1904 when Boit and her brother and sister rented James’s house in Sussex for a summer)

¨        The Deathbed Notes of Henry James, article by noted James biographer and scholar, Leon Edel, from The Atlantic Monthly

¨        Heath Anthology James site, with links and bibliography

¨        An International Episode by Henry James [online text] [06/29/07]

¨        The Jolly Corner by Henry James [online text]

¨        The Aspern Papers by Henry James [online text] [06/29/07]

¨        The American by Henry James [online text] [06/29/07]

¨        The Story of a Year by Henry James [online text] [06/29/07]

Joyce, James

¨        Joyce Sites on the WWW (doesn’t appear to have been updated in a while, but a place to start) [06/29/07]

¨        A website devoted to the Writings of Joyce (R. L. Callahan at Temple University)

¨        The Boarding House (from The Dubliners) [online text] [06/29/07]

¨        Clay (from The Dubliners) [online text] [06/29/07]

¨        The Dead (from The Dubliners) [online text] [06/29/07]

¨        A Little Cloud (from The Dubliners) [online text]

Kincaid, Jamaica

¨        Vanessa Pupello’s Jamaica Kincaid page (Fall 1997; includes biography and bibliography)

¨        New York Times’ More on Jamaica Kincaid [free, but may require you to register]

¨        Jamaica Kincaid“: The Salon Interview by Dwight Garner  [06/29/07]

King, Stephen

¨        Stephen King Web Site (extensive set of links)  [06/29/07]

Lahiri, Jhumpa

Leavitt, David

¨        Esquire Blows It“ - Literary editor Will Blythe quits after the men’s mag finds a steamy story by gay writer David Leavitt too hot to handle. 

¨        Robert David Sullivan’s essay on Leavitt’s controversial Arkansas: Three Novellas

¨        “I’m a Famous Writer” (E. Scott Slater’s 1997 Boston Book Review piece on Arkansas; includes a review of Leavitt’s career)

¨        George Lear’s David Leavitt Interview (at Pure Fiction, 1998)

¨        Review of While England Sleeps, the novel that got Leavitt in trouble with Stephen Spender

Lessing, Doris

Mansfield, Katherine

¨        The Fly - online text of Mansfield short story

Marshall, Paule

McMillan, Terry 

¨        Ma’Dear (for Estelle Ragsdale) [online text] [06/29/07]

¨        AfroNet’s Waiting to Exhale Site

¨        Voices from the Gaps - McMillan material [06/29/07]

¨        An interview with McMillanat SeeingBlack.com [06/29/07]

Mishima, Yukio

¨        Yukio Mishima CyberMuseum (Japan) [06/29/07]

¨        Kinkakuji Temple,in Kyoto, whose arson in 1950 inspired Mishima’s “Temple of the Golden Pavilion”

¨        Books & Writers brief bio and bibliography

¨        Yukio Mishima: A World of Beauty and Eroticism – Satoshi Nabeshima’s site

¨        Japan Fears Reaction Abroad to Writer’s Suicide – November 26, 1970 NY Times article about Mishima’s suicide

Moore, Lorrie 

¨        New York Times’ Featured Author: Lorrie Moore [free, but may require you to register] [06/30/07]

¨        “Moore’s Better Blues”: The Salon Interview by Dwight Garner (10 Oct. 1998) [06/30/07]

¨        About Lorrie Moore: A Profile by Don Lee (Ploughshares, Fall 1998) [06/30/07]

¨        Moore’s introduction to the fiction issue of Ploughshares she edited [06/30/07]

¨        Excerpt from “Lorrie Moore: The Art of Fiction CLXVII” (Paris Review, Svpring-Summer 2001) [06/30/07]

¨        If Only Bert Were Here“ - online text of a Moore short story [06/30/07]

¨        Every Wife’s Nightmare“ - Moore s review of Margaret Atwood s The Robber Bride [06/30/07]

¨        Trashing Women, Trashing Books“ - Astonishing piece on Simon & Schuster’s rejection of American Psycho and the issue of sexual violence against women [06/30/07]

Morrison, Toni

¨        Morrison’s Nobel Prize lecture, December 1993.[06/30/07]

O’Brien, Tim

¨        Marilyn Knapp Litt’s Tim O’Brien’s Home Page [06/30/07]

¨        New York Times’ Featured Author: Tim O’Brien [free, but may require you to register] [06/30/07]

¨        President’s Lecture - “Writing Vietnam” Brown University, 21 April 1999

¨        Dave Edelman 1994 interview, Baltimore City Paper [06/30/07]

¨        Artful Dodge O’Brien interview [06/30/07]

¨        A Storyteller For the War That Won’t End“ - J. R. Bruckner in the NY Times, April 3, 1990 [06/30/07]

¨        The ‘What If’ Game“ - O’Brien feature from Atlantic Monthly [06/30/07]

¨        The Vietnam in Me“ - O’Brien essay, October 2, 1994 [06/30/07]

O’Connor, Flannery

¨        Flannery O’Connor pagewith bibliographic links (web-archived document) [06/30/07]

¨        Bill McGloughlin’s O’Connor site and links

¨        Mary Flannery O’Connor at Georgia State College for Women - publisher of the Flannery O’Connor Review

¨        ‘Tin Jesus’: The Intellectual in Selected Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor - essay by Jason Mitchell

¨        A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Classic O’Connor short story [06/30/07]

¨        Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home

¨        Flannery O’Connor page at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

¨        A South Without Myths (essay on O’Connor by Alice Walker) - or try this mirror [06/30/07]

¨        Lupus Foundation of America - information about Lupus, the disease that killed O’Connor at the age of 39 [06/30/07]

Parker, Dorothy 

¨        Dorothy Parker Bibliography [06/30/07]

¨        Some of Dorothy Parker’s pithy poems  [06/30/07]

¨        The Telephone Call (classic Parker short story that also works on stage) [06/30/07]

¨        Diary of a New York Lady,” classic Parker satire [.pdf] [06/29/07]

Plath, Sylvia

¨        Emily Pollard’s excellent “PlathOnline.com“ – includes searchable texts of Plath’s poems 

¨        After ‘The Bell Jar,’ Life Went On“ – NY Times article on 50th anniversary reunion of the surviving 1953 Mademoiselle editors, one of whom was Sylvia Plath [06/30/07]

Poe, Edgar Allan

¨        Edgar Allan Poe Museum: Richmond, VA  [06/29/07]

¨        Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site: Philadelphia, PA [06/30/07]

¨        Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore [06/30/07]

¨        House of Usher: Edgar Allan Poe - gateway for author

¨        Poe Studies: Washington State University

¨        Links to online texts of Poe’s poetry and short stories

¨        The Fall of The House of Usher“ (text plus analysis)  [06/29/07]

¨        The Cask of Amontillado (1846)  [06/29/07]

¨        Absinthe makes the heart grow &.“ - Salon.com article about “the green fairy”  [06/29/07]

Pynchon, Thomas 

¨        Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite? (Pynchon essay for the New York Times, October 28, 1994) 

¨        Pynchon’s Letters Nudge His Mask (March 4, 1998 Mel Gussow piece on discovery of long-lost Pynchon correspondence)

¨        A Journey Into The Mind of Watts (Pynchon essay for the New York Times, June 12, 1966) [06/30/07]

¨        Spermatikos Logos site dedicated to Pynchon [06/30/07]

Roy, Arundhati 

¨        Claire Scobie’s interview, including information about the unprecedented advance Roy received for her first novel, The God of Small Things [06/30/07]

¨        Salon/Borders review of The God of Small Things by Jennifer Howard [06/30/07]

¨        Roy’s amazing 31 May 2003 talk—“Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy (Buy One, Get One Free)”—at the Riverside Church in New York City. [06/30/07]

Saki (H. H. Munro) 

¨        The Chronicles of Clovis (a story cycle) [online text] [06/30/07]

¨        Laura [online text] [06/30/07]

¨        Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger [online text] [06/30/07]

¨        The Reticence of Lady Anne [online text] [06/30/07]

¨        The Stalled Ox [online text] [06/30/07]

¨        The Story-Teller [online text] [06/30/07]

¨        A Saki Bibliography (web-archived document) [06/30/07]

¨        A brief biography

Salinger, J. D.

¨        Stephen Foskett’s Salinger.org

¨        Books and Writers’ J. D. Salinger page

¨        Writing And Revenge - Bethan Roberts finds JD Salinger unmasked in Joyce Maynard’s At Home in The World

¨        J. D. Salinger’s Women (“The winsome, uncanny girls of Salinger’s fiction have real-life counterparts. They’ve always kept the secrets of this country’s most famous recluse. Till Joyce Maynard changed her mind.”)

¨        Joyce Maynard’s website, including “discussion forum - with postings from readers in response to At Home in the World and Maynard’s other books

¨        Bohemian Ink’s Salinger page (brief bio. + links to other sites)

Shomer, Enid

¨        Street Signs[online text]

Silko, Leslie Marmon

¨        Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and the Effects of White Contact on Pueblo Myth and Ritual“ - Suzanne M. Austgen’s interesting article on Silko’s best-known book

¨        Norma Wilson’s reading and study guide to Silko

¨        An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko - by Thomas Irmer, Alt-X [Part 1] [Part 2]

¨        Voices from the Gaps - Silko resources

¨        Resources about Leslie Marmon Silko on the Internet (a comprehensive set of links)

¨        Fences Against Freedom“ - Silko essay from Hungry Mind Review

¨        In the Combat Zone“ - a great Silko essay focusing on violence against women

¨        Native American Authors - Silko resources

Smiley, Jane

Sontag, Susan

¨        “The Decay of Cinema” by Susan Sontag (from the New York Times, February 25, 1996) [web-archived document] [06/29/07]

¨        Sontag’s contribution to a NY Review of Books “Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam”, June 12, 1975 [06/29/07]

¨        Review of Camus’ Notebooks, September 26, 1963 [06/29/07]

¨        Sontag’s response, in The New Yorker, to the 9-11-01 tragedy [06/29/07]

¨        Elizabeth Farnsworth interview with Sontag for PBS, February 2, 2001 [06/29/07]

¨        Sontag interview/feature at amazon.com

¨        Why Are We in Kosovo? - Writing from Italy, Sontag describes European opposition to NATO’s participation in the war in Kosovo, May 2, 1999

¨        When Writers Talk Among Themselves - NY Times, January 5, 1986

¨        Sontag’s official home page

¨        Books and Writers’ Susan Sontag page

¨        Regarding the Torture of Others“—Sontag’s stunning piece on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal from the May 23, 2004, New York Times magazine.

Stafford, Jean

Stegner, Wallace

Viramontes, Helena María

Vonnegut, Kurt

¨        New York Times’ So It Goes: The Work Of Kurt Vonnegut [free, but may require you to register]

¨        “Despite Tough Guys, Life Is Not the Only School for Real Novelists” by Kurt Vonnegut (New York Times, 24 May 1999) [free, but may require you to register]

¨        “The Salon Interview: Kurt Vonnegut” by Frank Houston (Oct. 1999)  [06/29/07]

¨        Welcome To The Monkey House!Or, How Kurt Vonnegut Changed Our Lives [web-archived site]

¨        Vonnegut’s Testimonybefore the Meese Commission on Pornography, a rapier-sharp attack on censorship

¨        Harrison Bergeron“ – Vonnegut short story  [06/29/07]

Welty, Eudora

¨        How a Southern Writer Came to Lend Her Name to a Computer Program (yep; it's the same Eudora!) [web-archived document] And another version of the story. [06/29/07]

¨        Why I Live at the P.O.“ (short story) [online text]  [06/29/07]

¨        A Curtain of Green“ (short story) [online text]  [06/29/07]

¨        The Petrified Man“ (short story) [online text]  [06/29/07]

¨        The Eudora Welty Newsletter  [06/29/07]

Wharton, Edith 

¨        Xingu  (short story) [online text] 

¨        Roman Fever (short story) [online text]

¨        The Edith Wharton Home Page

¨        Edith Wharton “The Mount” Restoration Project

¨        Edith Wharton “Overview with Biocritical Sources” (includes pictures and many links)

¨        See also Kim Wells’“Domestic Goddess” site

¨        Edith Wharton and The Age of Innocence- about.com’s summary and analysis of the novel

¨        The House of Wharton - Wharton and The Atlantic Monthly

¨        The Edith Wharton Society -Primary Works Online

Whitman, Walt

¨        The Walt Whitman Archive - the official Whitman site (funded in part by the NEA and the US Department of Education - remarkably gay-friendly, given its provenance!)

¨        America’s Bard - Erin Rogers in The Atlantic Monthly

Wilde, Oscar

¨        Oscar Wilde Random Quote Generator - a somewhat clunky interface, but the material is interesting (hit “reload” to get a new quote)

¨        Oscariana- The Life and Times of Oscar Wilde (interesting, eccentric site operated by John Addario

¨        Photographs of Oscar Wilde and His Circle at the Clark Library

¨        Reading Wilde ...Querying Spaces: An Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Trials of Oscar Wilde. Wonderful NYU website

¨        Oscar Wilde’s 1895 Martyrdom (essay focusing on Wilde’s 1895 conviction for sodomy)

¨        The World-Wide Wilde Web

¨        Information about Wilde, the 1997 Julian Mitchell/Brian Gilbert film starring Stephen Fry as Oscar (“The Story of the First Modern Man”)

¨        Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime - A Study of Duty [online text]

¨        Bartleby.com’s online text of Wilde’s 1881 Poems

¨        Bibliomania’s online texts of just about everything Wilde published

¨        Planetmonk’s collection of Wilde texts

¨        The Official Web Site of Oscar Wilde (or so the webmaster says!)

¨        Web site of the Oscar Wilde Book Shop in Greenwich Village, New York - one of the first gay bookstores in the US, this tiny, charming shop was recently saved from bankruptcy by a philanthropist who still believes in books!