Event Information:

• Thu

  01

  Sep

  2022

  Jill Talbot’s Engl 4160: Lyric Hauntings Class Visit

  12:45 pmUniversity of North Texas

  Norman Maclean ends A River Runs Through It, a novella about being raised along the Blackfoot River in Montana with the words, “I am haunted by waters.” We are all haunted by something—objects we’ve lost, what we did or did not say, did or did not do, memories, people who have gone, suspicions, intuitions, and missed chances. This semester, you’ll read essays about various kinds of hauntings—old addresses on Google maps, the sound of keys dropped onto a table, a J. Crew flannel someone borrowed and never gave back, a mother’s shade of lipstick, a woman in the liquor aisle at Target, an overgrown parking lot where a grocery store used to be, a childhood home, worn spots by the handles on kitchen cabinets, and yes, ghosts.