Thank you so much for sharing this so those of us not able to take your class are able to follow along and glean some new insight, perspective and sanity!
I can't believe the Fantasy World sign is in your post! I live about a half mile away from Fantasy World and pass the sign every day. We enjoy watching it gain and lose letters day by day. It's back in business now after its brief closing during the worst of the hurricane.
thanks Jeff....brilliant as always. i like particularly: "there are stories we make together that can be moments of something like safety—pauses between fight or flight in which we might consider what we know of the world and how we know it."
Thank you, following from Amsterdam, hoping to learn from you, because we Dutch also have fascististic nationalists in our government. It’s a world wilde plague but the pen is mightier than the sword. Keep hope!
I just listened to your interview with Brendan O’Meara’s Creative Nonfiction podcast and loved it! Love what you are doing here too. Blew me away when I saw the Fantasy World sign - very close to my house!
First, diving into the wreck was such an important poem for me when I read it in 1972. I think it kind of changed my life. second, I just learned about this attack on our wild spaces and I’m trying to publicize it, it might be something your students could consider:
Thank you for sharing the first week of The Reporters. I expected then hoped that we would see Weeks 2 and 3 as well. My priorities for the month of April remain: be Joe, continue recovery, physiotherapy, work, sleep, Magda: Cuisinière intergalactique, Wu-Tang Clan biographies, The Language of the Third Reich, Anime Sickos, vote in the federal election, wake up the garden and—if I should be so lucky—follow along Mr. Sharlet's syllabus.
At the risk of sounding like teacher's pet... I did all the readings, listenings and lookings by April 9. The Ottawa Public Library had American Precariat but I'm going to have to go to the central Vancouver Public Library branch to get Immersion by Ted Conover. No problem. I have two copies of Telling True Stories, happy to share with anyone interested. What now sounds like is dark; what now feels like is peaceful. Odd. What I am writing is not the deep portraiture, quick bios that I loved so much to read, but something more personal, more mundane. I'm writing every day. I hope you are too.
And please consider sharing Week 4 with us! Yours, JRM
Thanks for sharing this. Teaching at Granite State College I designed management courses to be upended in weeks 3-4. Re-designed after collecting student desires and complaints about the material, classmates, and what they wanted to know about what was happening at work (mostly big employers there in the Upper Valley of NH & VT).
It never failed, that after the new class was rolling, engagement increased. Except some students who resisted the “takeover” as they saw the co-creation process. They were holding out for authority, or my original, intentionally dump-able design.
Emergent design is quite unlike “concepts of a plan”. But effective in Creative Nonfiction classes. And in my case “This class is to be run like an organization”written into the college catalog.
Thank you so much for sharing this so those of us not able to take your class are able to follow along and glean some new insight, perspective and sanity!
this is a very good response to the current moment, to being present and thoughtful and seeing it. Look forward to the updates.
Goddamn, Jeff. Wish I was at Dartmouth again. What a course!
I can't believe the Fantasy World sign is in your post! I live about a half mile away from Fantasy World and pass the sign every day. We enjoy watching it gain and lose letters day by day. It's back in business now after its brief closing during the worst of the hurricane.
Love your syllabus!
Thank you for sharing details of the class here. Zanele's work, too. I hope you continue to. Feels vital right now. I'll be following along.
thanks Jeff....brilliant as always. i like particularly: "there are stories we make together that can be moments of something like safety—pauses between fight or flight in which we might consider what we know of the world and how we know it."
Thank you, following from Amsterdam, hoping to learn from you, because we Dutch also have fascististic nationalists in our government. It’s a world wilde plague but the pen is mightier than the sword. Keep hope!
I just listened to your interview with Brendan O’Meara’s Creative Nonfiction podcast and loved it! Love what you are doing here too. Blew me away when I saw the Fantasy World sign - very close to my house!
First, diving into the wreck was such an important poem for me when I read it in 1972. I think it kind of changed my life. second, I just learned about this attack on our wild spaces and I’m trying to publicize it, it might be something your students could consider:
https://open.substack.com/pub/morethanjustparks/p/talking-points-for-congress?r=1metx&utm_medium=ios
Thank you for sharing the first week of The Reporters. I expected then hoped that we would see Weeks 2 and 3 as well. My priorities for the month of April remain: be Joe, continue recovery, physiotherapy, work, sleep, Magda: Cuisinière intergalactique, Wu-Tang Clan biographies, The Language of the Third Reich, Anime Sickos, vote in the federal election, wake up the garden and—if I should be so lucky—follow along Mr. Sharlet's syllabus.
At the risk of sounding like teacher's pet... I did all the readings, listenings and lookings by April 9. The Ottawa Public Library had American Precariat but I'm going to have to go to the central Vancouver Public Library branch to get Immersion by Ted Conover. No problem. I have two copies of Telling True Stories, happy to share with anyone interested. What now sounds like is dark; what now feels like is peaceful. Odd. What I am writing is not the deep portraiture, quick bios that I loved so much to read, but something more personal, more mundane. I'm writing every day. I hope you are too.
And please consider sharing Week 4 with us! Yours, JRM
Thanks for sharing this. Teaching at Granite State College I designed management courses to be upended in weeks 3-4. Re-designed after collecting student desires and complaints about the material, classmates, and what they wanted to know about what was happening at work (mostly big employers there in the Upper Valley of NH & VT).
It never failed, that after the new class was rolling, engagement increased. Except some students who resisted the “takeover” as they saw the co-creation process. They were holding out for authority, or my original, intentionally dump-able design.
Emergent design is quite unlike “concepts of a plan”. But effective in Creative Nonfiction classes. And in my case “This class is to be run like an organization”written into the college catalog.
Back in the day, the 1990s. Ancient history!
I trust your writing in this time more than most others. Thank you for sharing this syllabus.