Ernest Hemingway, Selections from In Our Time.
Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier's Home."
Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants."
Ernest Hemingway, "Cat in the Rain."
Ernest Hemingway, the opening of "In Another Country."
Ernest Hemingway, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place."
Glenda Jakubowski, "A Mean, Well-Blighted Place."
Raymond Carver, "Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarets."
Raymond Carver, "Fat."

Raymond Carver, "Photo of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year."
Raymond Carver, "Drinking While Driving."
Raymond Carver, "Your Dog Dies."
Gary Snyder, "How Poetry Comes to Me."
Gary Snyder, "Hay for the Horses."
Gary Snyder, "On Top."
Soseki Natsume, Two Haiku.
Kijo Murakami, Two Haiku.

David Lodge, "Repetition," from The Art of Fiction.
Luke Whisnant, "Hemingway and the Stylings of Truth: Minimalism."

William Faulkner, excerpt from "A Rose for Emily."
William Faulkner, excerpt from "Dry September."
William Faulkner, excerpt from Light In August.
Cynthia Ozack, "The Shawl."
E. Annie Proulx, opening chapter of The Shipping News.
Stanley Elkin, opening and ending of The Franchiser.
Stanley Elkin, opening of George Mills.
Steven Millhauser, "Klassic Komix #1."
Steven Millhauser, excerpt from Edwin Mullhouse.
Vladimir Nabokov, opening four chapters from Lolita.

Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill."
Robinson Jeffers, "The Purse-Seine."

Michael Anania, "Autoclysms."
Tom Wolfe, excerpt from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

David Lodge, "Fancy Prose," from The Art of Fiction.
Luke Whisnant, "William Faulkner and the Stylings of Artifice: 'Fancy Prose'."

Robert Stone, opening of Outerbridge Reach
Sherman Alexie, "Indian Education."
Pam Houston, "Symphony."
Linsey Trask, "Full Circle."
Susan Minot, "Lust."
Katherine Ann Porter, "The Grave"
Reynolds Price, "Serious Need."

Ann Sexton, "Barefoot."
Ann Sexton, "Us."
Billy Collins, "Introduction to Poetry."
Billy Collins, "My Number."
Billy Collins, "The History Teacher."

Joan Didion, excerpt from "Why I Write."
Joan Didion, excerpt from "Los Angeles Notebook."

Luke Whisnant, "A Happy Median: The Middle Style."

Michael Chitwood, "By Water, Again."
Debra Kang Dean, "Homing Pidgen."
Michael McFee, "Wilder Brain Collection: Cornell University."

Toni Cade Bambara, "My Man Bovane."
William Faulkner, "Spotted Horses."
Grace Paley, "Goodbye and Good Luck."
Langston Hughes, "Why, You Reckon?"
Shellie Zacharia, "Set Break."
Wendy Brenner, "Nipple."
Abraham Rodriguez, Jr., excerpt from "Babies."

Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed."
Langston Hughes, "Madam and the Rent Man."
Robert Frost, "Home Burial."
Howard Nemerov, "Money: An Introductory Lecture."

David Lodge, "Teenage Skaz," from The Art of Fiction.
Luke Whisnant, "Twain and the Stylings of Speech: The Oral Style."

Cormac McCarthy, two excerpts from The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy, excerpt from Suttree
Larry Heinemann, "The First Clean Fact" (opening of Paco's Story)
Jonathan Baumbach, "The Traditional Story Returns."
Joyce Carol Oates, "Notes on Contributors."
V.S. Naipaul, "The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book"
Donald Barthelme, opening of "Will You Tell Me?"
Donald Barthelme, "The School."
Donald Barthelme, "Paraguay."
Donald Barthelme, "Sentence."
Donald Barthelme, excerpt from "The Explanation."
Donald Barthelme, the last paragraph of "Views of My Father Weeping."

David Lodge, "Duration," from The Art of Fiction.
Luke Whisnant, "Helpful Concepts When Reading Donald Barthelme."
Luke Whisnant, "Amalgams & Anomalies: Some Postmodern Styles."

Fancy Style: Bruce Springsteen, "Blinded by the Light."
Minimalist Style: Bruce Springsteen, "Nebraska."
Intertextuality: Opening drum riff, Little Richard, "Hear You Knocking (But You Can't Come In)."
Intertextuality: Opening drum riff, Led Zeppelin, "Rock & Roll."
Lyrical: James Brown, "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud, Pt 1)."
Narrative: Richard Thompson, "1952 Vincent Black Lightning."
Amalgam: Meredith Brooks with Queen Latifa, "Lay Down."

Nadi Bishop: Two Passages from Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Lee Bradbury: Passage from Dylan Thomas's poem "In the White Giant's Thigh."
Will Cyrus: Passage from Chuck Palahniuk's novel Choke.
Andrea Langrish: The opening of Douglas Adams's novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Dana Hay: Four Techniques from Forrest Carter's novel The Education of Little Tree.
Chris Flowers: Two passages from T. Coraghessan Boyle's story "Carnal Knowledge."
Shaquanna Johnson: Two passages from Randall Kenan's novel Let the Dead Bury Their Dead.
Erica Plouffe Lazure: Passage from Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth.
Chris McDonald: Ron Bayes's poem "One to Get Ready and Two for Tenure."
Leanne Smith: Techniques from Michelle Cliff's story "A Hanged Man," from Bodies of Water.
Jordan Thompson: Techniques in the last scene of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado."
Barry Ward: A scene from Richard Wright's story "The Man Who Was Almost A Man."
Luke Whisnant: Two Passages from Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find."
Dawn Wilson: The opening of Allan Gurganus's story "It Had Wings," from White People.
Chris Young: Tim O'Brien's chapter 20, "Evidence," from his novel In The Lake of the Woods.

Nancy McGillicuddy: Typing in Blue Mittens (photo below).