My MFA reading list for Winter Residency 2010

Longer Works:

The Rings of Saturn(WG Sebald)

Coming Through Slaughter (Michael Ondaatje)

The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates)

The Collected Stories of Robert Walser

The Crying Game (script; Neil Jordan)

Play (script; Samuel Beckett)

Jelly Roll (Kevin Young)

Gulf Music (Robert Pinsky)

Assorted Poems of Susan Wheeler

Short Stories:

The Love of a Good Woman (Alice Munro)

The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore (Sherman Alexie)

In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried (Amy Hempel)

Big Bertha Stories (Bobbie Ann Mason)

Three Calling Birds, Three French Hens (Lorrie Moore)

Everything That Rises Must Converge (Flannery O’Connor)

Your Were Perfectly Fine (Dorothy Parker)

The Catbird Seat (James Thurber)

The Enormous Radio (John Cheever)

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Mark Twain)

Zoellner’s Definition (Murray Bail)

Where I’m Calling From (Raymond Carver)

Pet Milk (Stuart Dybek)

A Family Supper (Kazuo Ishiguro)

Tergvinder’s Stone (WS Merwin)

Lust (Susan Minot)

Dr. Henry Selwyn (WG Sebald)