Fall 2009 Reading List
Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour
The Selected Poetry of Robert Browning
Don Quixote by Cervantes, trans. by Tobias Smollett
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter and Seymour, an Introduction by J.D. Salinger
Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers by Stanley Elkin
Men and Gods by Edward Gorey
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Collected Stories of Evan S. Connell
fictionalism
ordinary language (Cavell)
“Less Than One” by Joseph Brodsky
“A Temple of the Holy Ghost” by Flannery O’Connor
“The Man Who Knew Belle Starr” by Richard Bausch
“Two Concepts of Liberty” by Isaiah Berlin
“Ysrael” by Junot Diaz
“Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” by Tim O’Brien
In the Garden of North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff
“Burning House” by Ann Beattie
“Heart Songs” by E. Annie Proulx
“A Run of Bad Luck” by E. Annie Proulx
“Under the Radar” by Richard Ford
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt
“Garrison Junction” by Maile Meloy
“The Girlfriend” by Maile Meloy
“Red from Green” by Maile Meloy
“Love and Lethe” by Samuel Beckett
“Gold Coast” by James Alan McPherson
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
“A Clean Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway
“The End of Something” by Ernest Hemingway
“The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara
“A Visit of Charity” by Eudora Welty
“The Leaning Tower” by Katherine Anne Porter
“The Author-Character-Narrator Merge” by Frederick Reiken
“Sonya’s Last Speech, or, Double-Voicing: An Essay in Sixteen Sections” by Charles Baxter
“‘You’re Really Something’: Inflection and the Breath of Life” by Charles Baxter
“In Defense of Omniscience” by Richard Russo
poems by Donald Hall
etwas von Stefan Heym
Hyperion von Friedrich Hölderlin
„Der Fall Wagner“ von Friechrich Nietzsche
„Bessere Zeiten“ von Gabriele Wohmann
„Der Verdächtige“ von Jurek Becker
„Das Muschelessen“ (exzerpt) von Birgit Vanderbeke
Медея и её дети Людмилы Улицкой
Война и мир Льва Толстого
«Выстрел», повесть Белкина Александра Пушкина
«О женщины, женщины» Антона Чехова
«Говорить или молчать» Антона Чехова
«Осенью» Антона Чехова
«Чарли Чаплин» Осипа Мандельштама
«К ***» Александра Пушкина
«Метель» повесть Белкина Александра Пушкина
«От издательства» Александра Пушкина
Memorization:
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning
“A Woman’s Last Word” by Robert Browning
«Свеча горела» Бориса Пастернака
“The Waking” by Theodor Roethke
«К ***» Александра Пушкина