WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2017 Residency
“Plot can be more unsettling than argument which can be answered.” In her summer lecture "What Is Light Without Dark?: Using Thematic Contrast to Build Narrative Tension and Character," Guest Fiction Faculty Mesha Maren quotes and discusses Eudora Welty's "Must the Novelist Crusade?" Other texts discussed in this lecture: Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian; Luis Alberto Urrea, The Devil’s Highway; Breece Pancake, “First Day of Winter”; Bonnie Jo Campbell, “The Trespasser”; Phil Klay, “Bodies”; Toni Morrison, Beloved; Amy Hempel, “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried”
