A summer evening in Midtown Manhattan. (Photo courtesy of Christine Espino on Flickr. License: CC BY-NC-SA.)
Instructor(s)
Garnette Cadogan
MIT Course Number
11.S948
As Taught In
Spring 2018
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course explores the city through writing—listening to the voices of poets, short story writers, novelists, journalists, critics, historians, ethnographers, urbanists, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. Through extensive reading that informs their work on a longform story, students will join the chorus of storytellers to richly represent the variegated city. Our focus is on three nonfiction forms—essay, memoir, literary narrative—with special emphasis on the writer-editor relationship and on revision as a heuristic to better thinking.