Texts

Reading:

John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir

Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

Thomas Larson, The Memoir and the Memoirist

The following will be handed out:

Mary Gordon.  Circling My Mother (excerpts)

Tony Judt, “Work”  download pdf

Virginia Woolf “A Sketch of the Past” (excerpts)

Films:

Agnes Varda, The Beaches of Agnes

Terrence Davies, And the Long Day Closes

Andre Tarkovsky,  The Mirror

Guy Madden, My Winnipeg

Su Friedrich,  Sink or Swim