Graduate Writing Book List

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

CRN 10023 WRIT 750A - Literary Seminar: "The Novella Project" - Peter Gadol

Henry James                  The Turn of the Screw                    Tribeca Books      978-1612930992
Thomas Mann                 Death in Venice (trans. by Heim)   HarperCollins       978-0060576172
Ian McEwan                    The Comfort of Strangers               Vintage                978-0679749844
Ernest Hemingway          The Old Man in the Sea                 Scribner               978-0684801223
Albert Camus                  The Stranger (trans. by Ward)        Vintage                978-0679720201
Saul Bellow                     Seize the Day                                  Penguin              978-0142437612
Saul Bellow                     The Bellarosa Connection               Penguin              978-0140126860
Glenway Wescott            The Pilgrim Hawk                            NYRB Classics   978-1590174579
Peter Cameron                The Weekend                                 Picador                978-0312428709
Jim Thompson                 After Dark, My Sweet                     Vintage                978-0679732471
Jean-Patrick Manchette   Fatale (trans. by Nicholson-Smith) NYRB Classics   978-1590173817
Denis Johnson                 Train Dreams                                  FSG                    978-0374281144
Ethan Canin                     The Palace Thief                            Random House   978-0812976175
Gabriel Garcia Marquez   Chronicle of a Death Foretold (trans. by Rabassa)  Vintage 978-1400034710
John Cheever                   O What a Paradise It Seems          Vintage               978-0679737858
Juan Rulfo                        Pedro Páramo (trans. by Peden)    Grove                 978-0802133908
VS Naipaul                       In a Free State                                Vintage               978-1400030552
Phillip Roth                       Goodbye, Columbus                       Vintage               978-0679748267
Cynthia Ozick                   The Shawl                                       Vintage               978-0679729266
Truman Capote                 Breakfast at Tiffany's                      Modern Library   978-0679600855
Marguerite Duras              The Lover (trans. by Bray)              Pantheon           978-0375700521
Jane Smiley                       Ordinary Love & Good Will            Vintage               978-0307279095
William Maxwell                 So Long, See You Tomorrow         Vintage               978-0547576725
Justin Torres                      We the Animals                              Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

CRN 10014 WRIT 750B - Literary Seminar: "Urban Nature Writing" - Lewis MacAdams

Walt Whitman              The Complete Poems: Walt Whitman    Penguin                              978-0140424515
Gary Snyder                The Gary Snyder Reader                       Counterpoint                       978-1582430799
Edward Abbey             The Monkey Wrench Gang                    McGraw-Hill College           978-0072434248
Joanne Kyger              About Now: Collected Poems                National Poetry Foundation 978-0943373713
Lorine Niedecker         Collected Works: Lorine Niedecker        Univ. of California Press      978-0520224346

CRN 10016  WRIT 750C – Literary Seminar: "The Poetics of Creative Reading: Chronotopes and Plasticity (1910 - 2010)" – William Mohr

Ford Madox Ford      The Good Soldier                                        Oxford University Press 978-0192836205
Peter Weiss              Marat/Sade                                                  Waveland Press             978-1577662310
Ann Patchett             Bel Canto                                                     Harper Perennial           978-0060934415
James Baldwin         Going to Meet the Man                                 Vintage                          978-0679761792
Charles Bukowski     The Pleasures of the Damned                     Ecco                               978-0061228438
Maggie Nelson          Bluets                                                           Wave                             978-1933517407
Cesar Vallejo             The Complete Poetry                                   Univ. of California          978-0520261730
James Krusoe           Toward You                                                  Tin House                      978-0982569115
Henri Alain-Fournier  The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)         Penguin                        978-0141441894
Patricia Hampl           Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime  Mariner Books              978-0156033114
Fred Voss                  Hammers and Hearts of the Gods                Fred Voss                     978-1852248468
Sonora Babb             Whose Names Are Unknown                        Univ. of Oklahoma        978-0806137124

CRN 10017 WRIT 750D - Literary Seminar: "Falsetto" - Paul Vangelisti

Karl Marx                               Capital                                             Penguin Classics       978-0140445688
Amiri Baraka                         Transbluescency                              Marsilio                      1568860145
Gillian Conoley                      Profane Halo                                   Verse Press                974635324
George Oppen                      Selected Poems                              New Directions           811215571
Dashiell Hammett                  Red Harvest                                    Vintage                       0-679-72261-0
Raymond Chandler               The Long Goodbye                          Vintage                       0-394-75768-8
Manuel Vasquez Montalban  Murder in the Central Committee    Serpent's Tail             10987654321
 

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