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Graduate Writing Book List


Fall 2012 – GRAD WRIT– Mandatory Book List for Students Registered in the Following Courses.


CRN 30738 WRIT 650A - Seminar in Literary Translation - Guy Bennett

Biguenet, Schulte (Eds)           Theories of Translation              Univ. of Chicago Press     226048713


CRN 30739 WRIT 750A - Literary Seminar - "OULIPO" - Douglas Messerli

Harry Matthews, Alastair Brotchie (Eds)       Oulipo Compendium        Atlas Press      0-9743554-3-7
Harry Matthews          The Journalist                                                       Dalkey Archive   978-1564781659
Tom La Farge   13 Writhing Machines Vol.1 Administrative Assemblages   Proteotypes   978-0-9800001-8-1
Tom La Farge              Vol. 2 Homomorphic Converters                               Proteotypes   978-0-9800001-9-1    
Tom La Farge              Vol. 3 Echo Alternators                                             Proteotypes   978-0-9827234-1-8
Georges Perec             Life A User's Manual                                         David R. Godine   978-0879237516
Walter Abish                 Alphabetical Africa                                              New Directions   978-0811205337
Jacques Roubaud       The Great Fire of London                                     Dalkey Archive   978-1564783967
Raymond Queneau     Exercises in Style                                                 New Directions   978-0811207898
Gilbert Sorrentino        Gold Fools                                                              Green Integer   978-1892295675
Ian Monk                     Family Archeology                                             Make Now Press   978-0974355412
Jacques Jouet             Mountain R                                                           Dalkey Archive   978-1564783301
Italo Calvino                Invisible Cities                                                       Harvest Books   156453800


CRN 30740  WRIT 750B - Literary Seminar - "Political Fictions" - Peter Gadol

Ward Just                        Jack Gance                                                       Mariner Books   978-0395856024
Joan Didion                     Democracy                                                                   Vintage   978-0679754855
Joan Didion                     Political Fictions                                                           Vintage   978-0375718908
Norman Mailer                Miami and the Siege of Chicago                      NYRB Classics   978-1590172964
Anonymous                     Primary Colors                                                Random House   978-0812976472
Philip Roth                       I Married a Communist                                                Vintage   978-0375707216
Milan Kundera                The Book of Laughter and Forgetting            Harper Perennial   978-0060932145
Yan Lianke                      Serve the People!                                                           Grove   978-0802170446
JM Coetzee                    Waiting for the Barbarians                                           Penguin   978-0143116929
Talbo and Marcos           The Uncomfortable Dead                                  Akashic Books   978-1933354897
Curtis Sittenfeld               American Wife                                                 Random House   978-0812975406


CRN 30741 WRIT 750C - Literary Seminar - Dennis Phillips

Nicholas Piombino          Contradicta: Aphorisms                         Green Integer Books   978-1933382487
Doug Kearney                 The Black Automaton                           Fence Magazine, Inc.   978-1934200285
Jacques Roubaud   Poetry, etcetera: Cleaning House, Guy Bennett translator   Green Integer Books 978-1933382531
Mohammed Dib    L.A. Trip: A Novel in Verse, Paul Vangelisti translator    Green Integer Books  978-1615549276
Laura Mullen                  Dark Archive                                      Univ. of California Press   978-0520268869
Luxorious               Opera Omina, Art Beck translator    Otis Books/Seismicity Editions
Martha Ronk                    Vertigo                                                    Coffee House Press   978-1566892056
Cole Swenson                 Gravesend                                        Univ. of California Press   978-0520273177   
 

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