“As I Lay Dying” by William Faulkner

“Room” by Emma Donoghue

“Tiny, Smiling Daddy” by Mary Gaitskill (Because They Wanted To: Stories)

“And of Clay Are We Created” by Isabel Allende (The Stories of Eva Luna)

“Shiloh” by Bobby Ann Mason (Shiloh and other Stories)

“A Painful Case” by James Joyce (Dubliners)

“Beginning Theory” by Peter Barry, third edition

“Fragment of the Head of a Queen” by Cate Marvin

“Lighthead” by Terrance Hayes

“The Eternal City” by Kathleen Graber

“The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake” by Breece D’J Pancake

“Devil in a Blue Dress” by Walter Mosley

“Goat” by Brad Land

“On Looking” by Lia Purpura

“Brokeback Mountain” Short Story to Screenplay (Paperback/Movie) by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana

“Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play” (Paperback/Movie) by David Mamet

“Writing for Emotional Impact” by Karl Iglesias