TEXTS TAUGHT

Fiction


Short Fiction


    Lynda Barry, “Keep Out! (A Boy’s Bedroom)”

    Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge”

    William Brohaugh, “A Moment in the Sun Field”

    Gregory Burnham, “Subtotals”

    Angela Carter, “The Company of Wolves”

    Ray Carver, “A Small, Good Thing”

    Ray Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”

    Guy De Maupassant, “The Necklace”

    Stephen Dobyns, “Kansas”

    Dave Eggers, “After I was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned”

    Charlotte Gilman Perkins, “The Yellow Wallpaper”

    The Brothers Grimm, “Little Red Riding Hood”

    The Brothers Grimm, “Hansel and Gretel”

    The Brothers Grimm, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”

    Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”

    Nick Hornby, “Nipple Jesus”

    Pam Houston, “How To Talk To A Hunter”

    Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”

    Ray Kinsella, “Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes To Iowa”

    William Leith, “Frozen Fish”

    Dan O’Brien, “Crossing Spider Creek”

    Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”

    Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”

    Georges Perec, “Inventory”

    Steven Polansky, “Leg”

    Jane Rogers, “Grateful”

    Giles Smith, “Last Requests”

    Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”


        Anthologies and Collections


    Ray Carver, Where I’m Calling From

    Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Adams Stories

    Nick Hornby, Ed. Speaking With The Angel

    Lewis Norden, Sugar Among The Freaks


        Novels


    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

    Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn

    Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

    Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

    Esther Freud, Hideous Kinky

    Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

    Evan S. Connell, Mr. Bridge

    Evan S. Connell, Mrs. Bridge

    Jack Kerouac, On The Road

    Alex Garland, The Beach

    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

    Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books

    Peter Carey, The True History of the Kelly Gang

    John Lanchester, The Debt To Pleasure

    Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit


Poetry


    Ray Carver, All Of Us

    Kim Addonizio, Jimmy & Rita

    Kim Addonizio, Tell Me

    Kim Addonizio, What Is This Thing Called Love

    Jim Daniels, Long For The Exterminator

    Jim Daniels, M-80

    Jim Daniels, Night With Drive-By Shooting Stars

    Jim Daniels, Revolt of the Crash Test Dummies

    Jim Daniels, Show and Tell

    John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

    John Donne, Selected Poems

    Denise Duhamel, Ka-Ching!

    Denise Duhamel, Queen For A Day

    Denise Duhamel, The Star-Spangled Banner

    Denise Duhamel, Two and Two

    T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

    Lisa Glatt, Monsters and Other Lovers

    Albert Goldbarth, Beyond

    Albert Goldbarth, To Be Read in 500 Years

    Paul Guest, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge

    Robert Haas, Ed. The Essential Haiku: Basho, Buson, Issa

    Terrance Hayes, Hip Logic

    Bob Hicok, The Legend of Light

    Tony Hoagland, Donkey Gospel

    Laura Kasischke, Gardening In The Dark

    Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw

    Lisa Lewis, Silent Treatment

    David Hinton, Ed. The Selected Poems of Li Po

    Gerald Locklin, The Firebird Poems

    Gerald Locklin, The Hospital Poems

    Campbell McGrath, American Noise

    Campbell McGrath, Capitalism

    Campbell McGrath, Florida Poems

    Campbell McGrath, Pax Atomica

    Campbell McGrath, Shannon

    Dzvinia Orlowsky, A Handful of Bees

    Dzvinia Orlowsky, Edge of House

    Ovid, The Art of Love

    Timothy Russell, Adversaria

    Nadine Sabra Meyer, The Anatomy Theater

    Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard

    Brian Turner, Here, Bullet

    Brian Turner, Phantom Noise

    David Trinidad, Plasticville

    David Trinidad, The Late Show

    Judith Vollmer, The Door Open To The Fire

    Ronald Wallace, Long For This World

    David Wojahn, Mystery Train

    David Wojahn, The Falling Hour

    World War One British Poets

    James Wright, Selected Poems

    Dean Young, Beloved Infidel

    Dean Young, Embryoyo

    Dean Young, First Course in Turbulence

    Dean Young, Skid

    Dean Young, Strike Anywhere


        Chapbooks


    Ronald Baatz, Out of His Childhood

    Ronald Baatz, Cemetery Country

    Gerald Locklin, Two Jazz Sequences

    Gerald Locklin, Art Farmer Suite

    Catherine Lynn, The Obsessive Compulsive Guilt-Ridden Terminal Mother

    Dave Newman, Truck It

    Bob Pajich, Everyone, Exquisite

    Mark Weber, I’ll Be Go To Hell

    Mark Weber, Wandering Jew Mom

    Mark Weber, The Odes of Big Web

    Mark Weber, Transitory Like Smoke

    Mark Weber, Poems & Doodles

    Mark Weber, Never Been To Yurp, But I’ve Been to D.C.

    Mark Weber, Yoga & Painting & Jazz & Traveling By Air


Plays


    Shakespeare, Hamlet

    Margaret Edson, W;t

    Arthur Miller, The Crucible


Graphic Novels


Marisa Acocella Marchetto, Cancer Vixen

Hergé, The Blue Lotus

Hergé, Tintin In Tibet

Hergé, The Red Sea Sharks

Kit Williams, Masquerade


Films


    90 Degrees South

    Babette’s Feast

    Exit Through The Gift Shop

    Scott of the Antarctic

    The Beach


Music Albums


    Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run

    Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska


Non-Fiction


        Essays


    Anthony Bourdain, The Nasty Bits

    Nirad Chaudhuri, “My Hundredth Year”

    Susan Sontag, Illness As Metaphor

    Viramma, “Pariah”


        Memoir


    Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

    Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World

    Ernesto “Che” Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries

    Ann Marie Low, Dust Bowl Diary

    Nigel Slater, Toast

    Nigel Slater, Eating For England


        Journalism


    Bill Bryson, Made In America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

    Walker Evans and James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    Robert Hughes, Nothing If Not Critical

    Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire


        Other


    Anthelme Brillant-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

    Banksy, Wall and Piece

    Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

    Granta 52: Food

    Granta 62: What Young Men Do


Textbooks


    David Starkey, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief

    David Bartholomae & Donald Petrosky, Ways of Reading

    The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction

    Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl, Eds. 250 Poems, A Portable Anthology

    R.S. Gwynn, Poetry: A Pocket Anthology

    Ed Field, Gerald Locklin, Eds. The New Geography of Poets

    The Norton Anthology of Poetry

    Metaphysical Poetry