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Writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Monica Ali Isabel Allende Martin Amis Kurt Andersen K
Writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Monica Ali Isabel Allende Martin Amis Kurt Andersen K. A. Applegate Jeffrey Archer Diana Athill Paul Auster Wasi Ahmed Victoria Aveyard Kevin Baker Mark Allen Baker Nicholson Baker Iain Banks Russell Banks Julian Barnes Andrea Barrett Max Barry Sebastian Barry Louis Bayard Peter Behrens Elizabeth Berg Wendell Berry Maeve Binchy Dustin Lance Black Holly Black Amy Bloom Chris Bohjalian Roberto Bolano S. J. Bolton William Boyd T. C. Boyle John Boyne Paula Brackston Adam Braver Libba Bray Alan Brennert Andre Brink Max Brooks Dan Brown Don Brown www.downloadexcelfiles.com Christopher Buckley John Burdett James Lee Burke Augusten Burroughs A. S. Byatt Bhalchandra Nemade Peter Cameron W. Bruce Cameron Jacqueline Carey Peter Carey Ron Carlson Stephen L. Carter Eleanor Catton Michael Chabon Diane Chamberlain Jung Chang Kate Christensen Dan Chaon Kelly Cherry Tracy Chevalier Noam Chomsky Tom Clancy Cassandra Clare Susanna Clarke Chris Cleave Ernest Cline Harlan Coben Paulo Coelho J. M. Coetzee Eoin Colfer Suzanne Collins Michael Connelly Pat Conroy Claire Cook Bernard Cornwell Douglas Coupland Michael Cox Jim Crace Michael Crichton Justin Cronin John Crowley Clive Cussler Fred D'Aguiar www.downloadexcelfiles.com Sandra Dallas Edwidge Danticat Kathryn Davis Richard Dawkins Jonathan Dee Frank Delaney Charles de Lint Tatiana de Rosnay Kiran Desai Pete Dexter Anita Diamant Junot Diaz Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni E. L. Doctorow Ivan Doig Stephen R. Donaldson Sara Donati Jennifer Donnelly Emma Donoghue Keith Donohue Roddy Doyle Margaret Drabble Dinesh D'Souza John Dufresne Sarah Dunant Helen Dunmore Mark Dunn James Dashner Elisabetta Dami Jennifer Egan Dave Eggers Tan Twan Eng Louise Erdrich Eugene Dubois Diana Evans Percival Everett J. -
11 Th Grade American Literature Summer Assignment (20192020 School Y Ear)
6/26/2019 American Lit Summer Reading 2019-20 - Google Docs 11 th Grade American Literature Summer Assignment (20192020 School Y ear) Welcome to American Literature! This summer assignment is meant to keep your reading and writing skills fresh. You should choose carefully —select books that will be interesting and enjoyable for you. Any assignments that do not follow directions exactly will not be accepted. This assignment is due Friday, August 16, 2019 to your American Literature Teacher. This will count as your first formative grade and be used as a diagnostic for your writing ability. Directions: For your summer assignment, please choose o ne of the following books to read. You can choose if your book is Fiction or Nonfiction. Fiction Choices Nonfiction Choices Catch 22 by Joseph Heller The satirical story of a WWII soldier who The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs. An account thinks everyone is trying to kill him and hatches plot after plot to keep of a young African‑American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to attend from having to fly planes again. Yale, but still faced the dangers of the streets when he returned is, Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison The story of an abusive “nuanced and shattering” ( People ) and “mesmeric” ( The New York Southern childhood. Times Book Review ) . The Known World by Edward P. Jones The story of a black, slave Outliers / Blink / The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Fascinating owning family. statistical studies of everyday phenomena. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway A young American The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston There is an anti‑fascist guerilla in the Spanish civil war falls in love with a complex outbreak of ebola virus in an American lab, and other stories of germs woman. -
Sara L. Pfaff English Department, Brown University Box 1852, Providence, RI 02912 Phone: (586) 596-7130 Email: Sara [email protected]
Sara L. Pfaff English Department, Brown University Box 1852, Providence, RI 02912 phone: (586) 596-7130 email: [email protected] Education: Brown University, Providence, RI 2008— Ph.D., English, completion May 2016 M.A., English, May 2010 Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 2003—2008 B.A., English, May 2008 B.A., History, May 2008 Dissertation: “Pluralism and Pathology in Ethnic American Fiction” explores the political implications of alternative configurations of multiethnic communities in American literature since 1965. In particular, my project examines how tropes of pathology and disease reflect—not just bodies that are in transition—but also communities and individuals that are increasingly interconnected, interdependent, and metastable. The pathological and ailing body functions as a literary device that advocates for the centrality of contingency and adaptation within ethnic, political, and social forms of belonging. I argue that this emphasis on contingent identity troubles the reified identity forms disseminated by nationalist ideologies and introduces alternative forms of belonging based in liminality, uncertainty, and debate. Tropes of pathological embodiment in the novels of N. Scott Momaday, John A. Williams, John E. Wideman, Louise Erdrich, Paul Beatty, Sherman Alexie, and Colson Whitehead thus provide a vital critique of (and alternative to) dominant ideologies of multiculturalism, which have recently been shown as reinforcing, rather than rectifying, racial inequality. This project explains how this literary device is congruent with a refashioning of multiculturalism in literary criticism; and analyzes how contingent configurations of identity are compatible with the rise of pluralism in emerging political, scientific, and cultural theory. Chair: Rolland Murray Committee: Professors Daniel Kim and Ralph Rodriguez Publications: “‘The slack string is just a slack string’: Neoformalist Networks in The White Boy Shuffle”. -
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones Alice Walker, The Color Purple Ernest Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing N
June 2020 Dear 11th and 12th U.S. Literature Students, The following is your summer reading list. I have provided several fiction and nonfiction books as options. You are required to read two (2) books this summer, three (3) books if you plan to take Honors. You will have individual writing assignments based on your summer reading and follow up discussions in August/September. Honors students will present multimedia reflections on their chosen texts. All of these assignments will be part of your first semester grade for U.S. Literature. You can find these books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble.com, Half Priced Books, Google Play Books, etc. (see used copies), or e-copies at your local libraries (until libraries reopen). They can also be found as audio books (Audible), so you may elect to listen to the story being read aloud as you follow along, if that helps you. Fiction Toni Morrison, Beloved Richard Wright, Native Son Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones Alice Walker, The Color Purple Ernest Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing Mario Alberto Zambrano, Lotería Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X Nonfiction Joan Didion, Where I Was From Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas Mohammed Ghassan Farjia, The Layman’s Guide to Climate Change Kwame Alexander, The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in this Game Called Life Janet Gurtler, You Too? Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Robert Pirsig, Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Best wishes, Mr. -
Stuartdybekprogram.Pdf
1 Genius did not announce itself readily, or convincingly, in the Little Village of says. “I met every kind of person I was going to meet by the time I was 12.” the early 1950s, when the first vaguely artistic churnings were taking place in Stuart’s family lived on the first floor of the six-flat, which his father the mind of a young Stuart Dybek. As the young Stu's pencil plopped through endlessly repaired and upgraded, often with Stuart at his side. Stuart’s bedroom the surface scum into what local kids called the Insanitary Canal, he would have was decorated with the Picasso wallpaper he had requested, and from there he no idea he would someday draw comparisons to Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood peeked out at Kashka Mariska’s wreck of a house, replete with chickens and Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Nelson Algren, James T. Farrell, Saul Bellow, dogs running all over the place. and just about every other master of “That kind of immersion early on kind of makes everything in later life the blue-collar, neighborhood-driven boring,” he says. “If you could survive it, it was kind of a gift that you didn’t growing story. Nor would the young Stu have even know you were getting.” even an inkling that his genius, as it Stuart, consciously or not, was being drawn into the world of stories. He in place were, was wrapped up right there, in recognizes that his Little Village had what Southern writers often refer to as by donald g. evans that mucky water, in the prison just a storytelling culture. -
AP Literature and Composition 2017 Summer Reading List and Writing Assignment
AP Literature and Composition 2017 Summer Reading List and Writing Assignment Mr. Preston [email protected] aplit11.blogspot.com Greetings and salutations! (That’s from Charlotte’s Web, which I encourage everyone to (re)read.) You’ve signed up for AP Literature, a course that aims to provide the experience of—and prepare you for—a college-level English course. To that end, the summer assignment will give you some preparation for the kind of reading you’ll encounter and the type of thinking you’ll need to apply to that reading. This is meant to be a challenging class, but if you throw yourself into it and accept the responsibility for your own learning, you’ll have a great time. AP Literature isn’t just about reading wonderful literature; it’s about encountering writers who are trying to connect with you across time and space, reflecting on how those writers employ language and ideas, and finding ways in discussion and print to both examine and more deeply appreciate the works of those writers. When I took this course in high school nearly 40 years ago ( . oh, man . ), I already enjoyed reading, and I’d been writing short stories for years, but AP Lit provided the texts—and the ways of thinking about those texts—that forever changed reading and writing for me . and forever changed me. I’m enthusiastic about this course because I know what can happen when you open yourself up to an artist’s vision and ideas. Required Reading The Art of Fiction, David Lodge Read this book first. -
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE in ENGLISH (Post-1999)
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (post-1999) BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM THE SCHOOL LIBRARY or Ms. Hrušková NOVELS Adiga, Aravind The White Tiger (2008) Atwood, Margaret The Testaments (2019) Barnes, Julian The Sense of an Ending (2011) Love, etc. (2000) Barry, Sebastian Days Without End (2016) Beatty, Paul Sellout (2015) Boyne, John The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006) Bushnell, Candace Trading Up (2003) Chbosky, Stephen The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace (1999) Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games (2008) Catching Fire (2009) Mockingjay (2010) Cunningham, Michael The Hours (1998) By Nightfall (2010) Davis, Brooke Lost & Found (2014) DeLillo, Don Cosmopolis (2003) Desai, Anita Fasting, Feasting (1999) Dicks ( see Green), Matthew Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend (2012) Doerr, Anthony All the Light We Cannot See (2015) Donoghue, Emma Room (2010) Dunthorne, Joe Submarine (2008) Evaristo, Bernardine Girl, Woman, Other (2019) Faber, Michel Under the Skin (2000) Flanagan, Richard The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) Forman, Gayle Where She Went (2011) Frayn, Michael Spies (2002) Genova, Lisa Still Alice (2007) Gordimer, Nadine The Pickup (2001) Green, John The Fault in Our Stars (2012) Green/Dicks, Matthew Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend (2012) Grossman, David A Horse Walks into a Bar (2016) Haddon, Mark A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003) Harris, Joanne Chocolat (1999) Hilderbrand, Elin Barefoot (2007) Hoffman, Alice The Third Angel (2008) Hornby, Nick How to Be Good (2001) Hosseini, Khaled The Kite-Runner -
The Failure of Sympathy in the Recent Works of J.M. Coetzee
The failure of sympathy in the recent works of JM Coetzee Warwick Ian Shapcott A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts (Research) School of English University of New South Wales July 2006 ORIGINALITY STATEMENT 'I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge it contains no materials previously published or written by another person, or substantial proportions of material which have been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at UNSW or any other educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in the thesis. Any contribution made to the research by others, with whom I have worked at UNSW or elsewhere, is explicitly acknowledged in the thesis. I also declare that the intellectual content of this thesis is the product of my own work, except to the extent that assistance from others in the project's design and conception or in style, presentation and linguistic expression is acknowledged.' Signed ......... Date ........................ ..~~.l.~.l~.7 ......................... COPYRIGHT STATEMENT 'I hereby grant the University of New South Wales or its agents the right to archive and to make available my thesis or dissertation in whole or part in the University libraries in all forms of media, now or here after known, subject to the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. I retain all proprietary rights, such as patent rights. I also retain the right to use in future works (such as articles or books) all or part of this thesis or dissertation. I also authorise University Microfilms to use the 350 word abstract of my thesis in Dissertation Abstract International (this is applicable to doctoral theses only). -
Addition to Summer Letter
May 2020 Dear Student, You are enrolled in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition for the coming school year. Bowling Green High School has offered this course since 1983. I thought that I would tell you a little bit about the course and what will be expected of you. Please share this letter with your parents or guardians. A.P. Literature and Composition is a year-long class that is taught on a college freshman level. This means that we will read college level texts—often from college anthologies—and we will deal with other materials generally taught in college. You should be advised that some of these texts are sophisticated and contain mature themes and/or advanced levels of difficulty. In this class we will concentrate on refining reading, writing, and critical analysis skills, as well as personal reactions to literature. A.P. Literature is not a survey course or a history of literature course so instead of studying English and world literature chronologically, we will be studying a mix of classic and contemporary pieces of fiction from all eras and from diverse cultures. This gives us an opportunity to develop more than a superficial understanding of literary works and their ideas. Writing is at the heart of this A.P. course, so you will write often in journals, in both personal and researched essays, and in creative responses. You will need to revise your writing. I have found that even good students—like you—need to refine, mature, and improve their writing skills. You will have to work diligently at revising major essays. -
Book Review - Margaret Atwood, the Testaments (New York: Doubleday, 2019)
Bridgewater Review Volume 39 Issue 1 Article 13 4-2020 Book Review - Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (New York: Doubleday, 2019) Halina Adams Bridgewater State University Follow this and additional works at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/br_rev Recommended Citation Adams, Halina (2020). Book Review - Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (New York: Doubleday, 2019). Bridgewater Review, 39(1), 36-37. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/br_rev/vol39/iss1/13 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. BOOK REVIEWS Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (New York: Aunt Lydia, and new characters Agnes Doubleday, 2019). Jemima and Daisy. This text attempts to redeem Aunt Lydia by revealing her Halina Adams back story: her life before Gilead, how she was converted to the Aunts, and ne image in Margaret Atwood’s The her current mission to undermine the regime. Atwood includes an epigraph Testaments (2019) stands out to me—not only from George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda pre- as a commentary on our age of “alternative sumably to explain the humanization O of this previously repulsive character: facts,” but also as a gloss on how we might read “Every woman is supposed to have this follow up to her popular and highly regarded the same set of motives, or else to be a The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). The image appears in a monster.” Yet, Aunt Lydia’s metamor- conversation between two Aunts-in-training, called phosis from arch believer to revolu- tionary seems a bit like retconning “Supplicants.” Discussing the motto of the Aunt at the expense of her deliciously evil school, one of the Supplicants notes that Latin was characterization in the original novel. -
Books I've Read Since 2002
Tracy Chevalier – Books I’ve read since 2002 2019 January The Mars Room Rachel Kushner My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret Craig Brown Liar Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Less Andrew Sean Greer War and Peace Leo Tolstoy (continued) February How to Own the Room Viv Groskop The Doll Factory Elizabeth Macneal The Cut Out Girl Bart van Es The Gifted, the Talented and Me Will Sutcliffe War and Peace Leo Tolstoy (continued) March Late in the Day Tessa Hadley The Cleaner of Chartres Salley Vickers War and Peace Leo Tolstoy (finished!) April Sweet Sorrow David Nicholls The Familiars Stacey Halls Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett May The Mercies Kiran Millwood Hargraves (published Jan 2020) Ghost Wall Sarah Moss Two Girls Down Louisa Luna The Carer Deborah Moggach Holy Disorders Edmund Crispin June Ordinary People Diana Evans The Dutch House Ann Patchett The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bronte (reread) Miss Garnet's Angel Salley Vickers (reread) Glass Town Isabel Greenberg July American Dirt Jeanine Cummins How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan A Month in the Country J.L. Carr Venice Jan Morris The White Road Edmund de Waal August Fleishman Is in Trouble Taffy Brodesser-Akner Kindred Octavia Butler Another Fine Mess Tim Moore Three Women Lisa Taddeo Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes September The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead The Testaments Margaret Atwood Mothership Francesca Segal The Secret Commonwealth Philip Pullman October Notes to Self Emilie Pine The Water Cure Sophie Mackintosh Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell The Country Girls Edna O'Brien November Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie (reread) The Wych Elm Tana French On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong December Olive, Again Elizabeth Strout* Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk And Then There Were None Agatha Christie Girl Edna O'Brien My Dark Vanessa Kate Elizabeth Russell *my book of the year. -
Historical Fiction
Book Group Kit Collection Glendale Library, Arts & Culture To reserve a kit, please contact: [email protected] or call 818-548-2021 New Titles in the Collection — Spring 2021 Access the complete list at: https://www.glendaleca.gov/government/departments/library-arts-culture/services/book-groups-kits American Dirt by Jeannine Cummins When Lydia Perez, who runs a book store in Acapulco, Mexico, and her son Luca are threatened they flee, with countless other Mexicans and Central Americans, to illegally cross the border into the United States. This page- turning novel with its in-the-news presence, believable characters and excellent reviews was overshadowed by a public conversation about whether the author practiced cultural appropriation by writing a story which might have been have been best told by a writer who is Latinx. Multicultural Fiction. 400 pages The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Kentucky during the Depression is the setting of this appealing historical fiction title about the federally funded pack-horse librarians who delivered books to poverty-stricken people living in the back woods of the Appalachian Mountains. Librarian Cussy Mary Carter is a 19-year-old who lives in Troublesome Creek, Kentucky with her father and must contend not only with riding a mule in treacherous terrain to deliver books, but also with the discrimination she suffers because she has blue skin, the result of a rare genetic condition. Both personable and dedicated, Cussy is a sympathetic character and the hardships that she and the others suffer in rural Kentucky will keep readers engaged.