That was the class title yesterday. We critiqued each other's writing, trying to figure out where to 'let loose' and expand. . It was a challenge to identify what worked and what did not. I realized I never listed the weekly readings, so here goes:Class 1: Start SmallPat Mora "Two Rooms"Notes by Sherman Alexie, Katherine Dunn, Ethan Canin"Scrapbook: Nabokov's Dreams"Binnie Kirshenbaum, excerpt from Hester Among the RuinsSandra Cisneros "Little Miracles, Kept Promises"Lu Chi, "Preface" from The Art of WritingMary Oliver, "The Journey"Seamus Heaney, "Blackberry Picking"Alice Walker, "When the Other Dancer is the Self"Tim O' Brien, excerpt from "The Things They Carried" Annie Dillard, excerpt from "Seeing" from Pilgrim at Tinker CreekAlane Salierno Mason, "In Memories, It's the Eye that Counts"Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook"Class 2: Love the Questions ThemselvesMargaret Atwood, "Bread" and "Reading Blind"Wallace Stegner, "Xanadu and the Salt Lake""Borges and I", "Updike and I" "She and I ... and Someone Else"Anne Frank, the first and last entries from The Definitive DiariesJamaica Kincaid, "Girl"Grace Paley, "A Conversation with my Father" and "A Conversation with Ann Charters"Annie Proulx, "Inspiration? Head Down the Back Road and Stop for the Yard Sales"Virginia Woolf, "Street Haunting"Class 3: Search for AnswersRon Hanson, "Nebraska"Michael Ondaatje, excerpts from Running in the FamilyTom Wolfe, "A Sunday Kind of Love"MFK Fisher, "Once a Tramp, Always..."Kelly Nickell, "A Different Type of Memoir: Rick Moody"Richard Lanham, "Where's the Action?" from Revising ProseClass 4: Leap into UnknownsMargaret Atwood, "Happy Endings"Adrienne Rich, "In Those Years"Robert Hass, excerpts from an interview with Bill Moyers from the The Language of LifeJunichiro Tanizaki, excerpts from "In Praise of Shadows" Tobias Wolff, "Say Yes"Jorge Luis Borges, "Blindness"Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"Tom Jenks, "The Origin of Cathedral"Mark Slouka, "Silence"Each class also had some book reviews of recent memoirs or quotes from various writings about what writing was all about.