Library — Austin Woerner's Memory Palace

Daniel Pink, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

A quirky career advice book written in the form of a manga, by the author of Drive.

daniel-pink-johnny-bunkoAustin WoernerNovember 7, 2019EAP101 Fall 2019

Susan Orlean, "Shortcuts"

Journalist Susan Orlean paints a portrait of her neighborhood hair salon.

E. B. White, "Here is New York"

E. B. White’s classic essay published in 1948, one of the most famous literary essays about New York City.

Deliberations

Deliberations is a journal of outstanding student essays produced in Writing 101, Duke University’s freshman writing course.

deliberationsAustin WoernerOctober 30, 2019EAP101 Fall 2019, Essay Writing

All About Essays

An amateur mini-documentary by Austin Woerner

I asked twelve Duke Kunshan a few basic questions about essays. Here’s what they said.

all-about-essaysAustin WoernerOctober 28, 2019Videos, EAP101 Fall 2019, Essay Writing

Six Classical Poems

Six classical Chinese poems depicting people, places, and things.

six-classical-poemsAustin WoernerOctober 19, 2019Annotated edition

汪曾祺，《多年父子成兄弟》

wang-zenqi-duonian-fuziAustin WoernerOctober 19, 2019Annotated edition, Wang Zengqi 汪曾祺, Chinese, Character profiles, Memoir, Creative Nonfiction

张爱玲，《公寓生活记趣》

Eileen Chang on the pleasures of apartment living. A lesser-known personal essay by the famous author, set during wartime Shanghai.

朱自清，《背影》

zhu-ziqing-beiyingAustin WoernerOctober 19, 2019Annotated edition, Chinese, Memoir, Zhu Ziqing 朱自清, Creative Nonfiction, Character profiles

Nicola Prentis, "Feel More Fun in French"

In this short article published in Quartz, a popular business magazine, Nicola Prentis examines the academic research behind the common observation that people feel like they have different personalities in different languages.

prentis-fun-in-frenchAustin WoernerOctober 8, 2019EAP101 Fall 2019

Jhumpa Lahiri, "Teach Yourself Italian"

Famed American novelist Jhumpa Lahiri explains her decision to remake herself as a writer—in Italian.

jhumpa-lahiri-italianAustin WoernerOctober 3, 2019EAP101 Fall 2019

Joseph Mitchell, "Professor Sea Gull"

Joseph Mitchell’s famous 1942 profile of Joe Gould, the Greenwich Village eccentric who claimed to be writing a voluminous “Oral History of Our Time.”

蔡崇达，《皮囊》

cai-chongda-pinangAustin WoernerSeptember 25, 2019Annotated edition, Chinese, Cai Chongda 蔡崇达, Memoir, Character profiles

Robert Gardner and Wallace Lambert, "Attitudes and Motivation in Second-Language-Learning”

This book, published in 1972, introduced the influential ideas of “integrative” and “instrumental” motivation to learn a language.

gardner-lambert-attitudesAustin WoernerSeptember 19, 2019EAP101 Fall 2019

William Blake, "The Proverbs of Hell" (excerpts)

English Romantic poet William Blake imagines: What if Hell were not a place of evil and punishment, but a country like any other? These proverbs, collected by an imaginary traveler journeying through the land of Hell, are imagined to reflect the culture and values of the people of Hell — though their meaning is cryptic and ambiguous.

blake-proverbs-of-hellAustin WoernerSeptember 15, 2019WOC190

Joan Rubin, "What the 'Good Language Learner' Can Teach Us

In this influential essay first published in 1975, language-learning researcher Joan Rubin explores the question: Is there a particular set of strategies used by good language learners that contributes to their success?

rubin-good-language-learnAustin WoernerSeptember 3, 2019EAP101 Fall 2019