Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Post-CTY Reading List 2013

Appearing as a  numbered list with no particular priority:

1. Finish James Wood's How Fiction Works
2. Shake Terribly the Earth: Stories from an Appalachian Family (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia) by Sarah Beth Childers  (available October 2013!!!)
3. Charle's Baxter's Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction 
4. Richard Hugo's The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
To Tell the Truth: Practice and Craft in Narrative Nonfiction anthology
6. Revisit Barthes' A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
7. Dawn Lonsinger's new poetry book Whelm
8. Perhaps on the plane ride home: Khaled Hosseini's work, including A Thousand Splendid Suns 
9.  Richard Wright's Native Son
10. Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence 

12. Forster's Howards End + Aspects of the Novel

14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 
15. Poetry (to be read in full collections) by  Lisa Olstein, Carl Phillips, Hayden Carruth, Marianne Moore, Donald Ray Polluck, & Marianne Boruch
16. Claire Messud's new novel The Woman Upstairs  
17. Dave Perry's  In Those Days
18. Lorrie Moore's Anagrams 
19. Alice Munro's Dear Life
20. Charles Baxter's Gryphon