Readings Due: Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler

Recommended Readings: Italo Calvino: Outside the Town of Malbork | "The Parallels!" Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges (Center for Book Culture)

Readings Due: Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler

Recommended Readings: Film: The Saragossa Manuscript / Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (Dir. Wojciech Has, 1965)

Readings Due: J. Yellowlees Douglas, I Have Said Nothing (Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext)

Note 1: You will be able to read this text in the Transcriptions Studio, SH 2509, during TA lab hours.

Note 2: LCI students who have taken my course in "Hypertext Fiction & Digital Poetries" should plan to read another Eastgate text (of your choosing) in the Transcriptions library.

Readings Due: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

Recommended Readings: Interactive Reading Guide to the first twenty pages of Dictee (Viet Nguyen; USC) | Theresa Hak Kyung Cha page (Voices from the Gaps; U Minnesota)

Readings Due: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

Recommended Readings: Reading responses from HCM: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism: Anita Choe, "A Novena of Rebirth" and Juliana Chang, "'transform this nothingness': Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee

Readings Due: Paul Auster, City of Glass

Recommended Readings: Paul Auster: The Definitive Site

Readings Due: Paul Auster, City of Glass

Readings Due: Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves

Recommended Readings: Online forum for House of Leaves

Readings Due: Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves

Recommended Readings: Sophie Cottrell: Interview with Mark Danielewski (Random House)

Readings Due: Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves

Readings Due: Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves

Recommended Readings: Student annotations of House of Leaves

Readings Due: N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines on Mark Danielewski

Recommended Readings: Web supplement to Writing Machines | Jan Baetens, "The Book as Technotext: Katherine Hayles's Digital Materialism" | Marie-Laure Ryan, "On Defining Narrative Media"

Readings Due: No class (instructor attending a conference) - watch Mulholland Drive (Dir. David Lynch, 2001; 147 mins.)

Recommended Readings: David Lynch Page: Mulholland Drive | The City of Absurdity: The Mysterious World of David Lynch | LynchNet | Interview with David Lynch (Prairie Miller) | "David Lynch's Clues to Unlocking this Thriller" | Mark Cousins' interview with David Lynch for Scene by Scene (BBC2) | "Everything you were afraid to ask about Mulholland Drive" (salon.com) | Kirsten Ostherr and Arash Abizadeh, "Amnesia, Obsession, Cinematic U-Turns: On Mulholland Drive" (2002)

Readings Due: Veterans' Day: no class

Readings Due: Andrew Plotkin, Shade (download free or play Java version online)

Recommended Readings: Interactive Fiction: Annotated Bibliography | Interactive Fiction Archive | Baf's Guide to IF | Index of IF by Andrew Plotkin | Interview with Andrew Plotkin | Zork I: The Great Underground Empire | Natalie Bookchin, The Intruder | Gaming Links: Game Studies; Interactive Fiction Research Library; Interactive Fiction & Adventure Games; Open Directory: InteractiveFictionCNET Gamecenter

Readings Due: Talan Memmott, Lexia to Perplexia

Recommended Readings: N. Katherine Hayles on Memmott, from Writing Machines

Readings Due: Giselle Beiguelman, the book after the book / o livro depois do livro

Readings Due: Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

Recommended Readings: Review: Claude Lalumière, "Chris Ware: The Smartest Cartoonest on Earth" | Richard von Busack, "100 Years of Solitude" (Metroactive Books)

Readings Due: Thanksgiving: no class

Readings Due: Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan

Recommended Readings: Interviews with Chris Ware and critical materials on comics & graphic novels