Teaching Notes for Further Reports
Use in the classroom to discuss: first-person narrative strategies; confession; interrogation; (mis)communication; excommunication; pretense; lies; speech acts; codes; brevity; haptics; hands; relational dynamics; (non)apologies; stories less-driven by (traditional) plot; writing about writing; windows; portes; ports; pinholes; academic settings; transits; circuits; remembrances; religious remembrances; an (a)historical weight as ascribed to the present moment; dynamics of absence/presence; furtive performances of the personal; broadcast performances of the personal; doorways; portals; apertures; arrangements; cheese.
Pairs well with Unset; Flat Stanley Reports Back to his Third Grader; and Carnival Bound (or, please unwrap me)
Further Reports by Brian Evenson
68 pages.
Perfect bound.
Brian Evenson’s Further Reports is the sequela of an interrogation. Following observations first described in Reports, Evenson subjects his person—as witnessed in relation to temple mirrors, zoom screens, and the bodily intrusion of unfit objects—to a particular scrutiny. In turns both intimate and detached, playful and proper, Evenson examines the material devices by which one’s person may be located. But what is located within one’s person? What personal remnants are shedded or remain? And where will you find the meanings that make your life?
Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection None of You Shall Be Spared (2023) and the Weird West microcollection Black Bark (2023). His collection Song for the Unraveling of the World (2019) won the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times’ Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction. Previous books have won the American Library Association’s RUSA PrizeAward and the International Horror Guild Award, and have been finalists for the Edgar Award. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and a Guggenheim Award. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts. His new story collection, Good Night, Sleep Tight releases in September of 2024.