The Spring 2007 Harman Writing Workshop Harman Writer-In-Residence Program - Weissman School of Arts and Sciences - Baruch College
Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Spring 2007 Harman Writing Workshop

Journalism and the Literary Imagination
Mark Kurlansky
English 4730/4730H
Wednesday: 2:05 PM to 5:00 PM

This class will be taught by the distinguished writer Mark Kurlansky, the Spring 2007 Sidney Harman Visiting Writer-in-Residence and the author of nine books of nonfiction including Salt, Cod, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World, and The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell. Scheduled for publication in October 2006 is his newest book, Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea, with a forward by the Dalai Lama.

The course will focus on the limits and limitlessness of non-fiction writing, both by examining student work and discussing writers including Norman Mailer, David Halberstam, Joan Didion, George Orwell, C.L.R. James, V.S. Naipaul, Red Smith, John Steinbeck, Andrew Kopkind and Wole Soyinka. The emphasis will be on what works, what doesn't and why.

Students who wish to enroll in the workshop must submit a resume (please include your student ID number and your email address) and two writing samples to Professor Roslyn Bernstein, Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, roz_bernstein@baruch.cuny.edu (646-312-3930) by November 8th.

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