2202374  Fact and Fiction in English Prose



Presentation Schedule

Instructions: The group presentations take place in a series of simultaneous sessions over three days.
  • By 4 p.m. Friday, April 17, groups e-mail crabtree@chula.ac.th and puckpan.t@chula.ac.th your nonfiction selections so that they can be posted here for your session instructors.
  • Five minutes before your scheduled session, enter the meeting room by either 1) clicking on "Join Meeting" at your group's date and time in the schedule below to follow the URL link, or 2) input the provided Meeting ID in your Zoom program to join the meeting, and do voice exercises in the waiting room until you are called in.
  • By 4 p.m. Friday, May 1, groups e-mail your two session instructors your paper. Their e-mail addresses are linked to their names in the schedule.
 

Fiction, Nonfiction and Session Listing

 
Instructions: In week 16, you will be presenting on one of the short stories below.
  • Get into a group of four students. Members can come from any combination of sections.
  • In week 13, choose a short story from the list below by sending an e-mail to crabtree@chula.ac.th with your top three preferred choices.
  • The results and presentation schedule will be announced here by Wednesday, April 8, 2020.
  • Pair your chosen fiction with a nonfiction piece.
  • Prepare a 20–25-minute presentation to be delivered to two instructors via Zoom. There will be a short question and answer session at the end.
  • Write a 4–5-page (MLA style format and citation) group paper on the fiction to be e-mailed to your two presentation instructors on May 1, 2020 by 4 p.m.

List of Fiction:

T. Coraghessan Boyle, "Asleep at the Wheel"
Boyle, T. Coraghessan. “Asleep at the Wheel.” The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2019, pp. 55–61, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/asleep-at-the-wheel. T. C. Boyle, "Asleep at the Wheel"

In a near future of Self-driving Cars (S.D.C.) when real cars are extinct, a group of teenagers become fascinated with the stealing and racing of cars as depicted in the James Dean movie Rebel Without a Cause. So much so they decide to hack and steal two self-driving cars and reenact the movie’s famous  “Chicken” scene. Meanwhile Cindy, mother of one of the boys, and an advocate for the homeless, is developing a more than professional interest in one of her clients, a fact which does not go unnoticed by her own S.D.C., Carly.
 
Robbins, Benjamin. “Is Your Smartphone Making You Stupid?” The Guardian, 13 Jun. 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2013/jun/13/smartphone-making-you-stupid.
Presenters: Shunya, Niratchakorn, Supissara, Suebsak, Sudsita
Join Meeting:
Sunday, April 26
10:00–10:25 a.m.

Meeting ID:
815 3377 6599

Tony and Sani





Carter, Andrea. “The Lamb.” The Irish Times, 12 Nov. 2019, https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-lamb-by-andrea-carter-shortlisted-for-writing-ie-short-story-of-the-year-1.4079469. Andrea Carter, "The Lamb"

The narrator of “The Lamb,” after many years’ absence, is returning to her hometown for a 30-year school reunion at the convent she attended as a teenager. Among many changes, her country’s mores have become increasingly liberal. But the narrator recalls a darker Ireland.
 
 
Moorehouse, Drusilla. “My Best Friend Saved Me When I Attempted Suicide, But I Didn't Save Her.” BuzzFeed, 12 May 2016, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/drumoorhouse/my-best-friend-saved-me-when-i-attempted-suicide-but-i-didnt.
Presenters: Sasisara, Kittichon, Nathakrit, Weeraya
Join Meeting:
Sunday, April 26
12:00–12:25 p.m.

Meeting ID:
834 2687 5914

Tony and Puckpan




Uncanny 13
El-Mohtar, Amal. “Seasons of Glass and Iron.” Uncanny 13, Nov./Dec. 2016, https://uncannymagazine.com/article/seasons-glass-iron/. Amal El-Mohtar, "Seasons of Glass and Iron"

Tabitha has to walk in iron shoes for seven years because she broke a promise to her husband. Amira is perched atop a magic glass hill where no man can reach her, to save her father’s kingdom. The two meet.
 
 
Hill, Jess. “Patriarchy and Power: How Socialisation Underpins Abusive Behaviour.” The Guardian, 7 Mar. 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/08/patriarchy-and-power-how-gender-inequality-underpins-abusive-behaviour.
Presenters: Chayanin, Natrada, Supakjarin, Kunanon
Join Meeting:
Friday, April 24
10:30–10:55 a.m.

Meeting ID:
974 3264 7214

Ingo and Michael




The New Yorker
Enright, Anne. “Night Swim.” The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2020, pp. 69–71, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/night-swim. Anne Enright, "Night Swim"

Michelle is taking her eight-year-old son Ben to a playdate with his friend Ava who lives in St. Clare Crescent. While navigating their way using her son’s smartphone she tries to answer his philosophical queries such as “Would you rather live in a turkey or have a turkey live inside you?” Upon arriving at St. Clare’s Crescent, Michelle chillingly realizes she has been here before and is drawn into memories of a past she thought she had forgot.
 
 
Schmelzer, Gretchen. “Parent's Corner: The Courage of Parenting with a History of Trauma.” The Trail Guide, Blog, Gretchen Schmelzer, 30 Mar. 2017, http://gretchenschmelzer.com/blog-1/2015/8/11/parents-corner-the-courage-of-parenting-with-a-history-of-trauma.
Presenters: Nichaporn, Passkorn, Sacha, Onjira
Join Meeting:
Sunday, April 26
11:00–11:25 p.m.

Meeting ID:
856 3221 1343

Tony and Ingo




"Critical Mass" by Christoph Niemann
Folk, Kate. “Out There.” The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020, pp. 5158, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/out-there. Kate Folk, "Out There"

The narrator of Kate Folk’s near future dystopia sneers at other women who fall for blots, handsome male androids that seduce women before hacking into their phone and stealing data for criminal purposes. Then she meets Sam.
 
 
Kaschak, Ellyn. “What Is Wrong with Dichotomous Thinking.” Psychology Today, 30 Jun. 2015, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/she-comes-long-way-baby/201506/what-is-wrong-dichotomous-thinking.
Presenters: Napada, Fasai, Hathairat Join Meeting:
Wednesday, April 22
8:30–8:55 a.m.

Meeting ID:
896 7371 5429

Tony and Michael




Petina Gappah, Rotten Row
Gappah, Petina. “The Death of Wonder.” Rotten Row, Faber and Faber, 2016. Petina Gappah, "The Death of Wonder"

Temporarily exiled to Gokwe, Chief Inspector Mafa encounters a murder case that tests how clean he is as a cop and how skeptical he is of the supernatural.
 
 
Nzenza, Sekai. “In the Shadow of Witchcraft.” The Herald, 31 Jan. 2012, https://www.herald.co.zw/in-the-shadow-of-witchcraft/.
Presenters: Yanisa, Thanachporn, Jittraporn, Pimpraew
Join Meeting:
Wednesday, April 22
8:30–8:55 a.m.

Meeting ID:
950 3706 0097

Puckpan and Sani




Tessa Hadley, "The Other One"
Hadley, Tessa. “The Other One.” The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020, pp. 63–69, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/the-other-one. Tessa Hadley, "The Other One"

A woman in her 40s gets an unexpected new look into the life of her father, who died in a car crash when she was twelve.
 
 
“Grieving a Parent’s Death at a Young Age: A Loss That Lingers.” The New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/opinion/letters/grief-childhood-parents.html.
Presenters: Pimlada, Chayanit, Kanruethai
Join Meeting:
Sunday, April 26
11:30–11:55 p.m.

Meeting ID:
405 876 9161

Michael and Ingo




Tessa Hadley, "Funny Little Snake"
Hadley, Tessa. “Funny Little Snake.” The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2017, pp. 67–75, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/16/funny-little-snake. Tessa Hadley, "Funny Little Snake"

Valerie, the young new wife of a much older professor, finds herself cast in the role of the evil stepmother to a taciturn young girl. But in the end she remakes herself as the stepdaughter’s savior.
 
 
Caldwell, Chloe. “I Always Wanted to Be a Stepmom.” The New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019, https://parenting.nytimes.com/relationships/stepmom/.
Presenters: Thamonwan, Piyapat, Pattanun, Pimtida
Join Meeting:
Friday, April 24
9:30–9:55 a.m.

Meeting ID:
912 4457 5876

Michael and Ingo




Yiyun Li, "A Sheltered Woman"
Li, Yiyun. “A Sheltered Woman.” The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2014, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/a-sheltered-woman. Yiyun Li, "A Sheltered Woman"

The story of a Chinese-American nanny hired to spend a month and no more supporting a new mother and her baby; trying to keep detached from the emotional turmoil around her, she is also entrapped by her own past.
 
 
Valenti, Jessica. “Not Wanting Kids Is Entirely Normal.” The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/09/not-wanting-kids-is-entirely-normal/262367/.
Presenters: Siraprapa, Saruttaya, Jidapa, Phattarawadee
Join Meeting:
Wednesday, April 22
9:00–9:25 a.m.

Meeting ID:
912 4328 4288

Sani and Puckpan




Ken Liu, Mono No Aware"
Liu, Ken. “Mono No Aware.” The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Head of Zeus, 2016, pp. 230–49. [Originally published in Lightspeed 37, Jun. 2013, http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/mono-no-aware/.] Ken Liu, "Mono No Aware"

With Earth having been destroyed years earlier, Hiroto, on board the only spaceship that got away, is the last living Japanese in the universe. Issues of identity, loss and legacy become secondary, however, when Hiroto finds out that there is something wrong with the ship...
 
 
Sotelo, Maria Gracia. “Individualism in Times of COVID-19 Is Lethal, Yet We Can’t Help It.” Medium, 11 Apr. 2020, https://medium.com/@mariagraciasotelo/individualism-in-times-of-covid-19-is-lethal-yet-we-cant-help-it-18f125f3aa2f.
Presenters: Jeerisuda, Nutch, Sippakorn, Supitcha Join Meeting:
Wednesday, April 22
8:00–8:25 p.m.

Meeting ID:
967 7249 2627

Ingo and Puckpan




Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
Moore, Lorrie. “How to Be an Other Woman.” Self-Help, Faber and Faber, 1985 Lorrie Moore, "How to Be an Other Woman"

Charlene and Jack meet at a bus stop, and after a few dates, they sleep with each other. Charlene uses clever words to show that she doesn’t really care about this dead-end relationship, but does she?
 

Engle, Gigi. “I Was the Other Woman—but I Still Feel Sorrier for Myself Than for Her.” Marie Claire, 19 May 2017, https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a27172/i-was-the-other-woman/. Gigi Engle, "I Was the Other Woman"
Presenters: Pranchalee, Supriya, Sunicha, Chanista Join Meeting:
Sunday, April 26
10:30–10:55 a.m.

Meeting ID:
929 9668 1204

Sani and Ingo




Lorrie Moore, Self-Help
Moore, Lorrie. “What Is Seized.” Self-Help, Faber and Faber, 1985. Lorrie Moore, "What Is Seized"

A short story in which the narrator, Lynnie, describes the relationship between her mother and father while she watches her mother’s mental and physical health deteriorate.
 
 
Barbieri, Annalisa. “Dad Had an Affair—I Can’t Forgive Him.” Ask Annalisa Barbieri, The Guardian, 20 Jun. 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jun/20/dad-had-affair-cant-forgive-him.
 
 
Presenters: Pattanun, Kunlapat, Nichapa, Pattada Join Meeting:
Sunday, April 26
11:30–11:55 p.m.

Meeting ID:
992 6961 1306

Sani and Puckpan




Alice Munro, "Child's Play"
Munro, Alice. “Child’s Play.” The Best American Short Stories 2008, edited by Salman Rushdie and Heidi Pitlor, Houghton Mifflin, 2008, pp. 201–29. [Originally published in Harper's Magazine, Feb. 2007, https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/childs-play-2/.] Alice Munro, "Child's Play"

Why is Charlene, on her deathbed, so keen to see Marlene, when they haven’t had any contact for decades? What happened at the fateful summer camp they spent together as kids? And what role does Verna play, the “strange” child that used to haunt young Charlene?
 
 
Shaw, Kristin Vanderhey, “How to Teach Our Kids Not to Hate, despite All the Hate They're Exposed to This Election,” The Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/09/26/how-to-teach-your-kids-not-to-hate-despite-this-election-year/.
Presenters: Sarunyu, Sorawich, Panas, Phitchayawi Join Meeting:
Friday, April 24
10:00–10:25 a.m.

Meeting ID:
961 0303 0646

Ingo and Sani




Jacob Ross, Tell No-One about This
Ross, Jacob. “The Understanding.” Tell No-One about This: Collected Short Stories 1975–2017, Peepal Tree P, 2017. Jacob Ross, "The Understanding"

You think “something is wrong with you.” You wonder “what made the girls go? What happened there in the quiet where the vines hang down from the cutlet trees like a bright green waterfall? It was Pansy who made you know.” You are sure your teacher, Mr. Celestine, hates you. Then you complete yesterday’s composition assignment in class instead of today’s math test and gets called to his office to come to an understanding.
 
 
Bliss, Jackson. “Our Words Will Save Us and Set Us Free.” Longreads, Mar. 2019, https://longreads.com/2019/03/18/our-words-will-save-us-and-set-us-free/.
Presenters: Kornkanok, Wirakarn, Nitchakarn, Nuttharinee
Join Meeting:
Friday, April 24
9:30–9:55 p.m.

Meeting ID:
979 1699 1268

Puckpan and Tony




William Saroyan, "Gaston"
Saroyan, William. “Gaston.” 1962. Madness in the Family, New Directions, 1988, pp. 25–32. William Saroyan, "Gaston"

A rare afternoon with a young man and his daughter. After her nap, he is just getting to know her and she him as they prepare to eat peaches and encounter Gaston—Who might he be?—when her mother calls from overseas.
 
 
Gottlieb, Lori. “Dear Therapist: I Can’t Deal with My Mother’s Hatred of My Father.” The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/08/my-father-kidnapped-me-my-mother-still-hates-him/595351/.
Presenters: Wattanapong, Piyadanai, Chanoknan, Adiluk
Join Meeting:
Sunday, April 26
10:00–10:25 a.m.

Meeting ID:
925 9809 2048

Puckpan and Ingo





Saunders, George. “Puppy.” The Best American Short Stories 2008, edited by Salman Rushdie and Heidi Pitlor, Houghton Mifflin, 2008, pp. 260–68. [Originally published in The New Yorker, 28 May 2007, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/28/puppy-2.] George Saunders, "Puppy"

“Oh, God, what a wonderful world.” Marie has it all; the happy children, the great husband, the comfortable life. Callie is, well, rather different. But Callie has the puppy that Abbie wants and needs...
 
 
“I Fear Becoming Like My Mother.” Her View from Home, https://herviewfromhome.com/motherhood-fear-becoming-like-mom/.
Presenters: Puthita, Lalida, Worakran, Sirikorn Join Meeting:
Wednesday, April 22
9:00–9:25 a.m.

Meeting ID:
917 2257 4840

Ingo and Tony




George Saunders, "Sea Oak"
Saunders, George. “Sea Oak.” The Barcelona Review 20, Sep./Oct. 2000, http://www.barcelonareview.com/20/e_gs.htm.

Good, reliable Aunt Bernie returns from the dead to lay claim to all the pleasures that her miserable life denied her and her family.
 
 
Desmond, Matthew. “American ant to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.” The New York Times Magazine, 11 Sep. 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/magazine/americans-jobs-poverty-homeless.html.
Presenters: Napasorn, Pitchayawan, Nattarika, Sapassorn
Join Meeting:
Sunday, April 26
10:30–10:55 p.m.

Meeting ID:
405 876 9161

Michael and Tony




Rion Amilcar Scott, "Shape-Ups at Delilah's"
Scott, Rion Amilcar. “Shape-Ups at Delilah’s.” The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019, pp. 57–64, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/07/shape-ups-at-delilahs. Rion Amilcar Scott, "Shape-Ups at Delilah's"

A Hair Crisis afflicts the community of Cross River but then Tiny, a magician with clippers, opens a barbershop that has the men of the neighborhood lining up around the block to have her tame their unruly locks.
 
 
Chira, Susan. “The ‘Manly’ Jobs Problem.” The New York Times, 8 Feb. 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/sunday-review/sexual-harassment-masculine-jobs.html. Susan Chira, "The 'Manly' Jobs Problem"
Presenters: Apichart, Prinporn, Jittima, Preeyanun, Prawmanee
Join Meeting:
Wednesday, April 22
8:00–8:25 a.m.

Meeting ID:
899 9429 6602

Michael and Tony




Jim Shepard, "The Zero Meter Diving Team"
Shepard, Jim. “The Zero Meter Diving Team.” Like You’d Understand, Anyway: Stories, Knopf, 2007, pp. 3–23, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/the-zero-meter-diving-team/. Jim Shepard, "The Zero Meter Diving Team"

Three brothers grow up playing, fighting and getting thrashed, like many boys in the ’60s and in their country. In their prime, variously they “are right in the thick of” the Chernobyl power station explosion and its aftermath.
Presenters: Thai, Thaletham, Nutdanai
Join Meeting:
Sunday, April 26
11:00–11:25 p.m.

Meeting ID:
949 6593 9559

Puckpan and Michael





Trevor, William. “The Woman of the House.” The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2008. William Trevor, "The Woman of the House"

Two young men are hired by a Irish man to paint his house. Before they finish painting the house, the Irish man disappears and it seems clear that his wife hides the fact of his death so she can continue her secret plan.
 
 
Grigore, Christiana. “The Gypsy in Me.” The New York Times, 21 Jun. 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/opinion/global-agenda-magazine-the-gypsy-in-me.html. Christiana Grigore, "The Gypsy in Me"
Presenters: Kesirin, Laksanaree, Rattanapat, Pontakorn
Join Meeting:
Friday, April 24
10:30–10:55 a.m.

Meeting ID:
968 1929 3594

Sani and Tony




Bryan Washington, "Visitor"
Washington, Bryan. “Visitor.” The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2020, pp. 55–61, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/20/visitor. Bryan Washington, "Visitor"

When the first love of his recently deceased father shows up unexpectedly, the narrator has a chance to reconnect with his history and re-examine his own life and relationship.
 

Varina, Rachel. “Will You Always Love Your First Love? An Unofficial Study.” Betches, 9 Jan. 2020, https://betches.com/will-you-always-love-your-first-love-an-unofficial-study/.
Presenters: Busakorn, Puritat, Nutthakrit
Join Meeting:
Friday, April 24
10:00–10:25 a.m.

Meeting ID:
924 1738 1348

Michael and Puckpan

Important Dates:
  • April 1: List of short stories posted on the course webpage.
  • April 1–3: Groups e-mail their first three short story preferences to the course coordinator at crabtree@chula.ac.th by 4 p.m. on Friday, April 3.
  • April 8: Selection results announced on the course webpage.
  • April 15: Presentation schedule posted on the course webpage.
  • April 17: Groups e-mail your nonfiction selection to crabtree@chula.ac.th and to puckpan.t@chula.ac.th by 4 p.m.
  • April 22, 24, and 26: Groups present their fiction and fact pair to two instructors via Zoom.
  • May 1: Groups e-mail their paper (4–5 pp., MLA format) to their presentation instructors by 4 p.m.


Last updated: April 26, 2020