Short Stories

The Short Story Project includes…

Reading…

• There Was Once, by Margaret Atwood – 2 pages – with audio at TP podcast
• The Debutante, by Leonora Carrignton (Surrealist Literature) – 2 pages – with audio at TP podcast
• Cat in the Rain, by Ernest Hemingway (The Lost Generation) – 1 page
• My Son the Murderer, by Bernard Malamud – 3 pages
• A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud, by Carson McCullers – 5 pages – with audio at TP podcast
• A Telephone Call, by Dorothy Parker – 3 pages – with audio at TP podcast
• A Perfect Day for Bananafish, by J. D. Salinger – 8 pages – with audio at TP podcast
• Ada, by Gertrude Stein (Cubist Writing) – 1 page – with audio at TP podcast
• How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the States? It Was Easy, by Alice Walker – 2 pages

…and watching videos or listening to podcasts by or about the authors, or with the stories.

The Joy Harjo Project

Joy Harjo is a Muscogee/Creek artist, who plays the saxophone, creates music, writes amazing poetry, among many other kinds of explorations!

This project involves…

• watching her “Reality Show”
• reading and listening to her poem “Strange Fruit”, which includes a brief comment by Michelle on the power to convey meanings in poetry,
• reading about and listening to Billie Holiday’s song “Strange Fruit”, and thinking about both pieces of work (All of those resources can be found at the TP webpage on Joy Harjo)
• and (if you want more) having a look at the Anthology she edited with Gloria Bird (to borrow from your teacher if necessary!), Reinventing the Enemy’s Language. Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America.