Suggested Reading
Kristin Herbert's Suggested Reading List:
First, I recommend reading the book(s) by any writer whose work catches your eye in this anthology! You can find additional information about the writers and their books in the contributors' notes.
In addition:
- Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion
- Kim Addonizio, Tell Me
- Robin Behn and Chase Twichell, The Practice of Poetry
- Lynn Emanuel, the dual edition of The Dig and Hotel Fiesta: the essay "Prologue: The Politics of Narrative—Why I Am a Poet"
- Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires ( esp. "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart")
- Mary Karr, The Viper Room: the essay "Against Decoration"
- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Lorrie Moore, Self Help (fiction)
- Sylvia Plath, "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" (short fiction)
- Howard Rheingold, They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslateable Words and Phrases
Kirby Gann's Suggested Reading List:
Many of the authors included in this anthology have books of their own. Seek out titles by the writers that you feel speak to you. Otherwise, try any (or all) of the following:
- Andrea Barrett, Ship Fever
- Samuel Beckett, Watt and The Trilogy
- Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories
- Denis Diderot, Jacques le Fataliste (there is also a fine stage adaptation by Milan Kundera which is an original work in its own right)
- Rikki Ducornet: The Complete Butcher's Tales and The Cult of Seizure
- William Gass: Omensetter's Luck, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, or Cartesian Sonata (in particular, the novella "Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's")
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed and The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
- Danilo Kis, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
- Milan Kundera: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Joke, and Immortality
- Carole Maso, Ava
- Lorrie Moore, Birds of America
- Elsa Morante, History
- Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada (or Ardor),and Pnin
- Michael Ondaatje: Coming Through Slaughter and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
- Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Jose Saramago: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis and The History of the Siege of Lisbon
- W. G. Sebald: Vertigo, The Rings of Saturn,and The Emigrants
- Lawrence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
- Virginia Woolf: The Waves, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts
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