These were books that caught our attention because of buzz built before publication, but no books were chosen for the lessons I expected them to teach instead, the class itself, and each student individually, would decide what value these books presented (or failed to present). It was a course aimed at graduating seniors, preparing them for the transition from the role of students into, hopefully, the writing world.Īs part of this class, we read nine just-published books, each of which had been released within a couple weeks of our discussion (most of them the week before we convened in class). In the Spring quarter of 2019, I taught a class called The Novel of Now in our Creative Writing undergraduate major at the University of California, Riverside. Find out what Brandon’s class thought of this sophomore novel from Sally Rooney below: The focus of this week’s The Novel of Now: Micro-Reviews is Sally Rooney’s Normal People, which was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
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