Week 10: Voice in Contemporary Literature

The reading assignment for this week is to read the novella (long short story) by Karen Russell entitled Sleep Donation. Having read her short story, "Vampires in the Lemon Grove," in-class you should be prepared to describe her "voice" as a contemporary writer. In writing your blog post consider what do we mean when we talk about a writer's voice? What are some of the elements we might describe? What do we mean by "tone" as a general term and how might we describe the "tone" Karen Russell has in her fiction? What is the relationship between an author's tone and an author's voice?

Here is a link to a helpful short article on an author's tone.

Here is a link to a very short article on an author's voice and how an author's voice is distinct from the voices of an author's characters.