Noodle Group Readings

Aeschylus Walter Benjamin Prometheus Bound “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” W. H. Auden “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” Thomas Bernhard “In Memory of Sigmund Freud” The Loser

Amir Bar-Lev Sven Birkerts My Kid Could Paint That (documentary film) “The Death of Literature” (from The Gutenberg Elegies, the Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age) Margaret Atwood “Monopoly” Amy Bloom “Moral Disorder” “Love Is Not a Pie” “White Horse” “The Labrador Fiasco” Roberto Bolano By Night in Chile Isaac Babel “My First Goose” Jorge Luis Borges “The Aleph” James Baldwin “The Garden of Forking Paths” The Fire Next Time “Emma Zunz” Another Country “The South”

Julian Barnes Kevin Brockmeier Flaubert’s Parrot The Year of Silence The Sense of an Ending Harold Brodkey Andrea Barrett Ceil “The Behavior of the Hawkweeds” Charlotte Bronte Donald Bartheleme Jane Eyre “Critique de la Vie Quotidienne” Mikhail Bulgakov Giorgio Bassani The Master and Margarita The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Ivan Bunin Saul Bellow “Sunstroke” Zetland: By a Character Witness The Bellarosa Connection J. L. Carr A Month in the Country Andrei Bely St. Petersburg Lewis Carroll The Hunting of the Snark Raymond Carver Deborah Eisenberg “Blackbird Pie” “A Cautionary Tale” “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” “Holy Week”

Adolfo Bioy Casares Nathan Englander The Invention of Morel “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” Michael Chabon “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges” “Werewolves in Their Youth” William Faulkner John Cheever Barn Burning “The Enormous Radio” “A Rose for Emily” “Goodbye, My Brother” Gabriel Fielding Anton Chekov In the Time of Greenbloom “In the Ravine” “Ward Six” Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop Robert Coover “A Political Fable” Gustave Flaubert A Simple Heart Joseph Coulson Madame Bovary The Vanishing Moon Paula Fox Stephen Crane “Desperate Characters” The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Jonathan Franzen Michael Cunningham The Corrections The Hours Sigmund Freud Lydia Davis Civilization and Its Discontents “The Fish” “The Letter” Mavis Gallant “The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street” Emily Dickinson “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” Nikolai Gogol “The Nose” Isak Dinesen “The Inspector General” “The Invincible Slave Owners” Dead Souls

Fyodor Dostoevsky Myla Goldberg “The Double” Bee Season The Grand Inquisitor (from The Brothers Karamazov) Barry Hannah “Testimony of Pilot” Lorraine Hansberry Barth Landor A Raisin in the Sun A Week in Winter

Thomas Hardy Doris Lessing Far From the Madding Crowd “The Day Stalin Died” “To Room 19” Robert Hass “Meditation at Lagunitas” (poems) Primo Levi The Periodic Table Julie Hecht “A Cautionary Tale” Clarice Lispector “The Smallest Woman in the World” Amy Hempel “The Harvest” Bernard Malamud “The Magic Barrel” Homer The Iliad (Book 1) Gabriel Garcia Marquez Memories of My Melancholy Whores Bohumil Hrabal The Death of Mr. Baltisberger W. Somerset Maugham Too Loud a Solitude The Painted Veil

Henry James Carson McCullers Washington Square “Court in the West Eighties” The Aspern Papers “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”

James Joyce Herman Melville The Dead Billy Budd, Sailor “Araby” Bartleby the Scrivener

Franz Kafka Claire Messud The Metamorphosis The Hunters

Karl Ove Knausgaard Lorrie Moore Selection from My Struggle, Volume 2 “Agnes of Iowa” “Debarking” Hans Keilson “Referential” Comedy in a Minor Key Toni Morrison Heinrich Von Kleist The Bluest Eye The Marquise of O Heinrich A Mercy

Giuseppe di Lampedusa The Leopard Alice Munro Thomas Pynchon “Carried Away” Entropy “Soon” “Chance” Jamie Quatro “Silence” “Demolition” “Passion” Jean Rhys Haruki Murakami Wide Sargasso Sea “Sweetie Pie” Philip Roth Vladimir Nabokov “Defender of the Faith” Pnin Pale Fire J. D. Salinger “Signs and Symbols” “For Esme, With Love and Squalor” Lolita “The Laughing Man”

Flannery O’Connor George Saunders “The Artificial Nigger” “Winky” “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” “Jon” CommComm Jenny Offil Department of Speculation Christine Schutt “Florida” George Orwell Homage to Catalonia W. G. Sebald The Emigrants Amos Oz Strange Fire George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara Grace Paley “Two Short Sad Stories from a Long and Happy Life” Mary Shelley “The Floating Truth” Frankenstein

Dorothy Parker Percy Bysshe Shelley “Big Blonde” Prometheus Unbound

Plato Susan Sontag Apology “On Photography” Crito Phaedo Art Spiegelman Maus Edgar Allan Poe “The Man of the Crowd” Stendahl The Charterhouse of Parma Katherine Anne Porter Pale Horse, Pale Rider Tom Stoppard The Coast of Utopia Rock and Roll

Graham Swift “Last Orders”

Wislawa Szymborska “On Death” “Without Exaggeration” “Allegro Ma Non Troppo” “Discovery”

Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich

William Trevor “The News From Ireland”

Voltaire Candide

Eudora Welty “A Still Moment”

Edith Wharton Ethan Fromme

Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway To the Lighthouse “Jacob’s Room”

Richard Yates “A Really Good Jazz Piano” Revolutionary Road

Yevgeny Zamyatin We