Dean Bakopoulos: Rainbows for All God’s Children (& Other Horror Stories) (January 2013)

A meditation on the challenges of narrative momentum in prose and poetry, this lecture attempts to use lessons from the horror genre and apply them to writing that is not always plot-driven. Among the stories discussed are Z.Z. Packer’s “Brownies,” Stuart Dybek’s “Paper Lanterns,” and “Dance in America” by Lorrie Moore.