Show Notes for Ep. 43 "Lesson Planning"
Mary Anne and Ben have been invited to teach in the first week of the famous writing workshop, Clarion West! Drawing from their past experience as students of the writing workshop, the hosts of MRAH take some time in this episode to brainstorm what their lessons are going to look like for the incoming students. Should the students be taught how to properly critique? What is a sustainable praxis and the Clarion ditto? All these questions and more are explored in this week’s episode of MRAH.
Recorded August 17, 2022 / Published June 12, 2023
Contents
- 0:00:00 – defining Clarion and its history
- 0:20:25 – on how Clarion works and hothouse critique culture
- 0:40:00 – what the goals of week 1 Clarion should be
- 0:49:53 – the “Clarion Ditto”
- 0:56:12 – intermission and SLF ad
- 0:57:28 – brainstorming lesson ideas
- 1:22:50 – on teaching how to critique, Clarion rules, and building a sustainable praxis
- 1:43:54 – concluding thoughts and ideas
Works and People Mentioned
Organized by order of appearance.
- Damon Knight, author
- Metropolitan, movie
- The Lesson, Cadwell Turnbull
- Fireheart Tiger, Aliette de Bodard
- Give a Girl a Knife, by Amy Thielen (cooking memoir mentioned by Mary Anne
- George Saunders, writer
- Louis McMaster Bujold, author
- Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke
- James Tiptree Jr., writer
- Harlan Ellison, writer
- Cory Doctorow, writer
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
