week one | JUNE 4
THE NATURE OF NARRATIVE
Reading: “Writing Short Stories”; “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
WEEK TWO | JUNE 11
NATIVE COUNTRY, NATIVE TONGUE
Reading: “The Fiction Writer and His Country”; “Greenleaf”
WEEK THREE | JUNE 18
METAPHOR AND SYMBOL
Reading: “The Nature and Aim of Fiction”
“Good Country People”
week FOUR | JUNE 25
UNEXPECTED BUT BELIEVABLE
Reading: “On Her Own Work”; “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
WEEK FIVE | JULY 2
MYSTERY AND MANNERS
Reading: “Novelist and Believer”; “A Temple of the Holy Ghost”
WEEK SIX | JULY 9
FICTION AND FAITH
Reading: “The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South”; “The River”