Notice for writers

[The Great Quail]

I hope no one minds me using the List for a sort of personal reason, 
but I think there may be some people who are interested in this.

As some of you know, I run a Web site called "The Modern Word," which 
contains the Libyrinth and a whole lot of author sites, including a 
Pynchon site called "Spermatikos Logos." Recently, we have teamed up 
with Gotham Writer's Workshop, an organization that offers online 
writing classes. Starting in mid October, we will be offering a joint 
class -- "Modern Fiction I." It will be run by Gotham Writers 
Workshop, using their "virtual classroom" technology and all their 
experience and such; but the focus will be on fiction with an 
experimental slant. Though the class plans to go over the basics, it 
will nevertheless be more under the influence of authors such as 
Joyce, Garcia Marquez, Pynchon, etc. than, say, Dickens and Updike, 
and will be informed by aspects of modern fiction such as 
stream-of-consciousness narrative and trends like magic realism. The 
class will run 10 weeks, and will have the same tuition, class size, 
and structure as their other classes. If it is successful, and if 
there is interest, might lead into a more advanced "Modern Fiction 
II" class.

If anyone is interested, or knows anyone who may be interested, 
please go to this URL for details:

http://www.writingclasses.com/online/modernword.html

Anyway, there you go.... I do not want to insult the list with 
something that is basically an advertisement, but as some of the New 
Yorkers might know, Gotham Writers Worksop is a pretty cool outfit, 
and I think this is a worthwhile project. (They are also looking for 
instructors, by the way, for many other classes -- something that may 
be of interest to List members as well!)

Best,

--Quail
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The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth:
http://www.TheModernWord.com

"Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick 
as flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of 
whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde 
from erde . . . (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, 
what curious of signs (please stoop) in this allaphbed! Can you rede 
(since We and Thou had it out already) its world? . . . Speak to us 
of Emailia!"
          --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake