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read for Creative Writing seminar week 4:

"The Conscience of the Court" by Zora Neale Hurston
"The White Horse" by Yasunari Kawabata

also read:
"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid

read:
"The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck
"Death by Landscape" by Margaret Atwood (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
"Kew Gardens" by Virgina Woolf
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

read:

"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe (it really is that good)

"Miriam" by Truman Capote

"Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov (a magician with words, truthfully)

read for Creative Writing seminar week 2:
"Jackson Who Will Be Famous" by Dorothy Allison
"The Moths" by Helena María Viramontes

read for week 3:
"What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?" by E. Annie Proulx
"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

all interesting to read & think about on a craft/technique level, but i liked "the moths" the best. the rest are not quite to my taste.

"snow" by ann beattie: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
"gusev" by anton chekhov: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

"the yellow wallpaper" by charlotte perkins gilman: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

i feel shaky and this is steadying me