AS PROMISED, THE READING LIST: The trouble with making a list like this is that as soon as I send it out/finalize it, I remember another title or three that I wish I had included. All that being said, though, heres my recommended reading list, as it stands at present. The first section is general backlist stuff, cornerstones of a collection. The second, shorter, section is current hardcover fiction -- the best Ive read this year. This section is VERY careful curated. The third section is stuff that will be of particular interest to writers. Ill be spending time with the list in class tonight, forming half the lecture on why these books are on the list... And here goes. Notes and comments, please. Suggested Reading October 21, 2014 The O. Henry Prize Stories (annual) The Best American Short Stories (annual – also Mystery, Essays, Travel, etc) Bright Lights, Big City – Jay McInerney If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion Light Lifting – Alexander MacLeod Island: The Collected Stories – Alistair MacLeod The Invention of the World – Jack Hodgins Galore – Michael Crummey Dubliners – James Joyce (esp. “The Dead”) Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman The Mezzanine –or- Room Temperature – Nicholson Baker A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway The World According to Garp – John Irving Presumed Innocent – Scott Turow The Fairy Tales – Angela Carter House of Leaves – Mark Danielewski Lost Girls – Andrew Pyper Where I’m Calling From – Raymond Carver Tenth of December – George Saunders The Empathy Exams – Leslie Jamison The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster The Deptford Trilogy – Robertson Davies Winter’s Tale – Mark Helprin Little, Big – John Crowley Sweetland – Michael Crummey The World Around Us – Aislinn Hunter My Real Children – Jo Walton On Writing – Stephen King A Passion for Narrative – Jack Hodgins Writers on Writing (2 volumes) – New York Times The Paris Review Interviews (four volumes, or on-line) The War of Art – Steven Pressfield The Art of Fiction – John Gardner The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell Bird by Bird – Anne LaMott Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg
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