Writing
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Sufjan has a master’s degree in creative writing from the New School for Social Research. Here are a few of his short stories, essays, interviews and reviews.
Short Stories:
- Christmas Mysteries Of The Chicken McNuggets… (2006)
- Santa Magic Hands [booklet] (2006)
- Christmas Tube Socks [booklet] (2006)
- Untitled (October 31, 2005)
- Michigan essay [vinyl version] (2003)
- Michigan stories (2003)
- My Mother, King Tut (2003)
- We Are Shielded by the Holy Ghost (2002)
- All The Nonsense of Suffering (2001)
- An Oboist With So-So Vibrato (2001)
- Pain & Promise Weekly *
Essays and Lists:
- How I Trumped Rudolf Steiner and Overcame the Tribulations of Illiteracy, One Snickers Bar at a Time (introduction to The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007)
- The Brooklynites (2007)
- Friend Rock (2007)
- The Horror In All Of Us (2006)
- Topic Magazine cover story (2006)
- Michigan Outtakes (2003)
Interviews:
Reviews:
- Cryptacize - Dig That Treasure, album review (2008)
- Free Man In Paris, song review (2007)
- Shapes & Sizes, live review (2007)
- My Brightest Diamond, live review (2007)
- The Curtains, live review (2007)
* Magnet magazine article: “I remember one of the first things [Sufjan] did for me,” says Stephen I. Hemenway, an English professor at Hope. “He put together a newspaper called Pain & Promise Weekly, where he used photographs and poetry and advertisements to analyze all the works that we had studied that year. I’ve taught for 33 years and have a small office. These are the kind of papers that I save.”
If anyone is able to provide us with copies of Pain & Promise Weekly please email the news editor.