Archive - Burch Blog, Reading Log

May 2025: Short Story Month!

stories from Phil LaMarche, Lori Ostlund, Arthur Bradford, and Lauren Groff, plus a first attempt at an ongoing, fluid list of the "best" stories of the…

May 4 •

March 2025

2025 week 11 reading log, plus some thoughts on teaching & beginnings

Yiyun Li, Brian Evenson, Lorrie Moore, Rita Bullwinkel, William Maxwell, Miranda July...

Mar 21 •

2025 week 10 reading log, plus some thoughts on language & word choice

Emily Fridlund, Joseph O'Neill, Lorrie Moore, Rita Bullwinkel, Alejandro Zambra, Miranda July...

Mar 14 •

2025 week — less "reading log," more "diary blog" this week

spring break week off... including taking "off" some reading

Mar 8 •

2025 week 8 in reading, teaching (w/ some prompts), & writing

Sam Thielman, Ling Ma, Emily Fridlund, Brian Evenson, Josh Denslow, & Alejandro Zambra + some prompts inspired by Hanif Abdurraqib + some notes on my…

Mar 1 •

February 2025

2025 week 7 in reading, blurbing, & writing

Tyler McAndrew, Ben Shattuck, Miranda July, Brian Evenson, Jensen Beach, Mary Gaitskill, Josh Denslow, & Emily Fridlund + some notes on my…

Feb 21 •

2025 week 6 in reading, teaching, writing

Rita Bullwinkel, Brian Evenson, Alex Higley, Miranda July, David Rabe, Ben Shattuck + some more "show your work" novel drafting...

Feb 14 •

2025 week 5 — reading, teaching, writing

Sheila Heti, Danielle Evans, Anna Vangala Jones, Miriam Gershow, Ben Shattuck + some more "show your work" novel drafting...

Feb 7 •

January 2025

2025 week 4 — reading, teaching, writing

Emily Fridlund, Miriam Gershow, Rita Bullwinkel, Lauren Groff, David Foster Wallace, Aimee Bender, Ben Shattuck + some more "show your work" novel…

Jan 31 •

2025 week 3 reading

Richard Price, Miriam Gershow, Ben Shattuck, Bud Smith + some more "show your work" novel drafting...

Jan 24 •

mid-January week of reading

Stuber, Chung, Shattuck + some more "show your work" novel drafting...

Jan 17 •

first week of Winter '25 semester week of reading

McInerney, Carver, Fridlund, Maloney, Beach, Gray, Shattuck, Stuber ... plus some "show your work" thoughts on revisiting an old novel as starting a new…

Jan 10 •

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