Recommended Reading List
| Instructor | Recommendation |
|---|---|
| Brownlee, Leslie | Cameron, Kenneth Walter, G. Oegger, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Young Emerson's Transcendental Vision; an Exposition of His World View with an Analysis of the Structure, Backgrounds, and Meaning of Nature (1836). Hartford, Transcendental Books, 1971. Print.
Fischer, Michael. "Literature and Empathy." Philosophy and Literature 41, no. 2 (2017): 431-464. doi:10.1353/phl.2017.0050. Malachuk, Daniel S. "Daniel S. Malachuk." In Two Cities: The Political Thought of American Transcendentalism, I-Vi. University Press of Kansas, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1g69zt1.1. Reynolds, David S. John Brown, Abolitionist: the Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. New York: Vintage Books, 2006. |
| Clover, Joshua | Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, Joshua Bloom & Waldo Martin Revolutionary Letters, Diane DiPrima Capital, vols. 1-3, Karl Marx |
| Corin, Lucy | My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante; New American Stories, Ed. Ben Marcus, The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor, by Flannery O'Connor. |
| Dobbins, Gregory | Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine
George William Russell (A.E.), The Candle of Vision Mairtin O Cadhain, Cre na Cille ('Graveyard Clay') Steve Ignorant, The Rest is Propaganda Luther Blissett, Q Derek Raymond, The Factory Series David Peace, Red or Dead Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid Mark Fisher, K-Punk: Collected and Unpublished Writings Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files (blog), https://www.theredhandfiles.com/ |
| Dolan, Frances | John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1612-13)
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess (1905) |
| Ferguson, Margaret | Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (first in her series about growing up poor in Naples in the 1950s; the other three books are also wonderful, if bleak). Fred Khumalo, Bitches Brew (a powerful novel about life and jazz by one of South Africa's most interesting novelists). David Malouf, Remembering Babylon. Most recently, I read and warmly recommend Richard Powers' astonishing eco-novel Overstory. And I love all three volumes of Deb Harkness' fabulous All Souls Trilogy! |
| Freeman, Elizabeth | William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Djuna Barnes, Nightwood Irini Spanidou, God's Snake Herman Melville, Moby Dick Richard Wright, Native Son Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance |
| Houston, Pam | There, There, by Tommy Orange
Riding Westward, by Carl Phillips A Manual For Cleaning Women, by Lucia Berlin Citizen, by Claudia Rankine Going To Meet The Man, by James Baldwin Music for Wartime, by Rebecca Makkai Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins Paradise, by Toni Morrison Bright Dead Things, by Ada Limón Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, by Ross Gay Jazz, by Toni Morrison |
| Krzeminski Gordon, Jessica | The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
What Maisie Knew by Henry James She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells Kindred by Octavia Butler Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Harry Potter series |
| Martín, Desirée | Junot Diaz, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"; "This is How You Lose Her": http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/books/review/this-is-how-you-lose-her-by-junot-diaz.html
William Faulkner, "Absalom, Absalom!" Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Gloria Anzaldua, "Borderlands/La Frontera" Kim Gordon, "Girl in a Band": http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/books/review/kim-gordons-girl-in-a-band.html?_r=0 |
| Marx, John | My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Severance by Ling Ma Washington Black by Esi Edugyan |
| Miller, Elizabeth | Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children |
| Shershow, Scott | H. P. Lovecraft, Tales, Library of America, ed. Peter Straub. |
| Wenderoth, Joe | Gerald Murnane's story: Land Deal (it's in his book Stream System)
Jared Diamond's essay: A New Scientific Synthesis Of Human History Walt Whitman's 1855 edition of Leaves Of Grass The Poetics by Aristotle The Dream Songs by John Berryman James Baldwin's book (2 essays): The Fire Next Time Kafka's stories, especially: The Burrow, Investigations Of A Dog, The Hunger Artist Toni Morrison's novels, especially: Jazz (masterpiece), and Tar Baby (an underappreciated book, I think) William Carlos Williams' book: Spring And All GG Marquez's story: Nabo: The Black Man Who Made The Angels Wait GG Marquez's story: The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World This Is Not A Pipe by Michel Foucault The Theater And Its Double by Lil' Anton Artaud everything and anything written by Paul Celan poems by Emily Dickinson poems by Lucille Clifton, Mary Ruefle, Antonio Porchia, Tomasz Salamun, Vasko Popa, CA Conrad, Adrian C. Louis, Anne Carson, Bei Dao, Yu XiuHua, Zbigniew Herbert, Nicanor Parra, Ingeborg Bachmann Pastoralia and Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders |
| Ziser, Michael | Ted Hughes, Crow: from the Life and Songs of Crow (London: Faber & Faber, 1970)
George Herbert, The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (Cambridge: Printed by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633) W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants, trans. Michael Hulse (1992; New York: New Directions, 1996) |
