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The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).
Publication Date
5-20-2015
Introduction
As a creative writing instructor who assigns a lot of reading, I have at least a few introductory students each semester who complain about the material. It’s not that it’s too difficult or too dense. It’s that it’s too depressing. “Can’t we read something happy?” someone will invariably ask.
Collection
Publisher
University of Central Florida
STARS Citation
Uttich, Laurie, "In Defense of 'Depressing' Books" (2015). UCF Forum. 48.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ucf-forum/48
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