This essay by the comic memoirist David Seders is published in the New Yorker and is one of his most well known essays, an excerpt from his book Santaland Diaries. I like to teach David Sedaris because he’s also a life long diarist (we talk about journalling and daily writing practices a lot in this class). […]
Selby Wynn Schwartz, A Life in Chameleons
Selby Wynn Schwartz’ novella, A Life in Chameleons” follows the life of Leopoldo Fragoli in a story told through collage or fragments, a form Schwartz masterfully incorporated into her Booker nominated novel, After Sappho. For our class we’ll look at the Wikipedia page of Leopoldo Fragoli as well as an excerpt of the novella to […]
Collage Fiction: Selby Wynn Schwartz
Historian, academic, and writer Selby Wynn Schwartz’ collage novel, “After Sappho” was long listed for the Booker Prize in 2022. It’s a brilliant novel that “collages” the lives of various women, including the ancient Greek poet Sappho, Gertrude Stein, Isadora Duncan, Susan B. Anthony, various Italian feminists of the same time period, in addition to […]
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