I’m about halfway through the reading list for my first semester at Queens and I thought I would include the list of books for your reading enjoyment:
For Nonfiction instructor: Emily White
- Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
- The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
For Nonfiction Instructor Peter Stitt
- Writing Creative Nonfiction, ed. Philip Gerard and Carolyn Forche
For Nonfiction Instructor Kym Ragusa
- The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hing Kingston
- Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
- Awkward: A Detour by Mary Cappello
For Poetry Instructor Robert Polito
- Desire by Frank Bidart
- The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck
For Fiction Instructor Jenny Offill
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- Selected Stories by Robert Walser
For Nonfiction Instructor Robert Polito
- Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaaje
- The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald