Dr. Sarah Duerden
English 218 Fall 2006
Writing About Literature: Contemporary Novels
Contemporary Issues

Office: LL 210 A     Phone: 727 6097        Email: Sarah.Duerden@asu.edu

Fall Office Hours: M & W 1-3; Fri 8:30-9:25  and by appointment

Course Policies	Daily Syllabus	Journal Prompts Go to Blackboard
Assignment One	Assignment Two	Assignment Three
Assignment Four Book reviews for A Spot of Bother Metacritic (website for book reviews) Reviewsofbooks.com (website for book reviews)

• ASU Library

• Literature Resource Center(    Includes biographies, bibliographies & critical analysis of authors from every age & literary discipline. Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists & other writers. Includes full text of journals on literature and literary criticism.)
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
• Ingenta (1988+)
• LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe
• NewsBank (1991+)
• Electronic Indexes for Periodicals
• Electronic Journals
• Books in Print Collection : (publication information and reviews)
• Choice ( 1988+) (reviews)

Links for Critical Approaches

• The Bedford St Martins Virtua Lit Site
• Bedford St Martins Critical Approaches
• Bedford St Martins Lit Links

Links for Writing Better Papers

• OWL Purdue Writing About Fiction
• Diane Hackers Supplement on Writing About Literature
• Diane Hacker's MLA Documentation

Links to Websites about Authors

Links for Nick Hornby

• Nick Hornby Penguin site
• http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-88,00.html
• Interview with Hornby on About a Boy
• Salon Interview with Nick Hornby
• Interview with Nick Hornby (Observer)
• http:/search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=nick+hornby
• British Council Contemporary  Writers
• Interview with Nick Hornby (on being a novelist)
  Interview with Nick Hornby from the Writer's Chronicle
• NPR interview with Nick Hornby (listen) 

Links for Mark Haddon

• Powell Interview with Mark Haddon
• Guardian Interview with Mark Haddon
• Mostly Fiction Website for Mark Haddon
• RandomHouse Website for Mark Haddon
• NPR interview with Mark Haddon
• Interview for the British Council
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Haddon
• British Council Contemporary Writers

Liz Jensen

Official Website: http://www.lizjensen.com
Links to The Paper Eater: http://www.papereater.com/

-	Interview with Liz Jensen
-	How did she fall?: Liz Jensen article on her grandmother for The Times
-	The Ninth Life of Louis Drax: Radio 4's Book at Bedtime
-	Guardian review
-	Interview in The Times
-	The Ninth Life of Louis Drax reviewed in the Telegraph
-	The Ninth Life of Louis Drax reviewed in the Times
-	The Ninth Life of Louis Drax: the Independent's Book Group delivers a verdict

Carole Cadwalladr

• Publishers website
• Powell Interview with Carole Cadwalladr
• Interview with Cadwalladr in bookbrowse.com
• Interview and Reviews of Cadwalladr

Kate Atkinson

• British Council Contemporary Writers
• Reviews of Case Histories
• Daily Telegraph Interveiw with Kate Atkinson
• Guardian Review of Case Histories
• Complete Reviews on Kate Atkinson's Case Histories

Kazuo Ishiguro

• British Council Contemporary Writers
• Guardian Profile of Ishiguro
• Sunday Times Review of Never Let Me Go
• NPR article and Interview on Ishiguro & Never Let Me Go

Margaret Atwood

• Margaret Atwood Website
• UK website for Atwood and Oryx and Crake
• Interview with Margaret Atwood on Oryx and Crake
• Atwood's comments on Oryx and Crake
• Atwood's own website
• Guardian Profile of Margaret Atwood
• Guardian Links for Atwood
• Guardian review of Oryx and Crake
• British Council on Contemporary Writers
  Defintion of Dystopia
  

Useful Newspapers & Periodicals

• Guardian
• New York Review of Books
• The Times
• The Independent
• The Observer
• The New York Times
• LA Times
• Washington Post
• MSNBC
• National Public Radio
• Public Broadcasting Service
• CNN Interactive
• ABC News
• USA Today
• Salon
• Village Voice
• NewYorker
• The Atlantic Monthly
• The Nation
• Time Magazine