Reading List – Fall 2012

January 16th, 2013

Best European Fiction 2012

The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie

A Haunted House Virginia Woolf

So Long, See You Tomorrow William Maxwell

“Permission to Enter” Zadie Smith

“Ox Mountain Death Song” Kevin Barry

“Protestant Boy” Desmond Hogan

“Demeter” Maile Meloy

“Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters” J.D. Salinger

Old School Tobias Wolff

Energy of Delusion Viktor Shklovsky

Disgrace J.M. Coetzee

Children of Lir Desmond Hogan

 

„Der Bau“ Franz Kafka

„Die Turnstunde“ Rainer Maria Rilke

„Das Märchen von den Händen Gottes“ Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Snuff Виктора Пелевина

Евгеный Онегин Александра Пушкина

Степные Богы Андрея Геласимова

«Жажда» Андрея Геласимова

Энергия Заблуждения Виктора Шкловского

Крейцерова Соната Льва Тольстого

Reading List – Summer 2012

October 31st, 2012

Varieties of Presence Alva Noë

The Waking Theodor Roethke

The Undertaking Thomas Lynch

Best European Fiction 2012

Look at the Birdie Kurt Vonnegut

Faith and Practice Pacific Yearly Meeting

“An Abduction” Tessa Hadley

Rashomon and Other Stories Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie

“Thank You For The Light” F. Scott Fitzgerald

“After Ellen” Justin Taylor

“Family Planning” Valerie Laken

“Map of the City” Valerie Laken

“Amundsen” Alice Munro

“The Proxy Marriage” Maile Meloy

“Another Life” Paul LaFarge

“The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” Chaucer

“Nero” Louise Erdrich

A Haunted House Virginia Woolf

“Logic and Literature” Gerard Ginette

 

„Schakale und Araber“ Franz Kafka

„Die erste Leid“ Franz Kafka

„Der neue Advokat“ Franz Kafka

„Auf der Galerie“ Franz Kafka

„Ein altes Blatt“ Franz Kafka

„Vor dem Gesetz“ Franz Kafka

„Ein Besuch im Bergwerk“ Franz Kafka

„Das nächste Dorf“ Franz Kafka

„Eine kaiserliche Botschaft“ Franz Kafka

„Die Sorge des Hausvaters“ Franz Kafka

EinHungerkünstlerFranzKafka

„Der Bau“ Franz Kafka

 

Двенадцать стульев Ильи Илфа и Евгения Петрова

Snuff Виктора Пелевина

Spring 2012

June 27th, 2012

All Aunt Hagar’s Children Edward P. Jones

“Chapter Two” Antonya Nelson

Varieties of Presence Alva Noë

“Gods” John Wisdom

“The Birthday Party” Harold Pinter

Old and Cold Jim Nisbet

Home For Sale Leo Litwak

“Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes” Richard Rorty

“The Afterlife” Becky Hagenston

“What is Quakerism? : A Primer” George T. Peck

“Introducing Quakers” Gordon Browne

“An Interpretation of Quakerism” Rufus M. Jones

“How to Become a Member of the Religious Society of Friends”

“Spiritual responsibility in the meeting for business”

“Five tests for discerning a true leading” Hugh Barbour

Quaker Reader

The Waking Theodor Roethke

The Undertaking Thomas Lynch

 

Snuff Виктора Пелевина

Священная книга оборотьня Виктора Пелевина

Братья Карамазовы Фёдора Достоевского

«Опять на полем куликовым» Александра Блока

«Поцелуй» Антона Чехова

 

Reading List Winter 2012

March 20th, 2012

Rising Up, Rising Down William Vollmann

Old School Tobias Wolff

Lark and Termite Jayne Anne Phillips

The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides

Cane Jean Toomer

First Light Charles Baxter

“Notes on a Supreme Fiction” by Wallace Stevens

“Stone Mattresses” Margaret Atwood

“Expectations” John Lanchester

“Los Gigantes” T.C. Boyle

“Brother Osgood” David Manning

“The Mall Walker” Justin Allen

“Citizen Conn” Michael Chabon

“Haven” Alice Munro

Occupying Wall Street : the Inside Story of a Movement that changed America Writers for the 99%

 

Мёртвые души Николая Гоголя

Иностранка Сергея Довлатова

Snuff Виктора Пелевина

Nativity Poems Иосифа Бродского

«Шинель» Николая Гоголя

«Вий» Николая Гоголя

И дольше века длится день Чингиза Айтматова

Fall 2011 Reading List

January 6th, 2012

“Cathedral” Raymond Carver

The Known World Edward P. Jones

“The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals” Edward W. Said

“Enemies” Anton Chekhov

“Dog Run Moon” Callan Wink

“Town of Cats” Haruki Murakami

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway

“The Boy in the Whale” Josef Firmage

“Another Birth” Sahar Delijani

“Starlight” Ann Beattie

Jews Without Money Michael Gold

Rising Up, Rising Down William Vollmann

 

“Ein Bericht für eine Akademie” Franz Kafka

 

Записки юного врача Михаила Булгакова

Мёртвые души Николая Гоголя

Summer 2011 Reading List

November 21st, 2011

Don’t Cry by Mary Gaitskill

“On Not Being a Victim: Sex, rape, and the trouble with following the rules” by Mary Gaitskill

The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot by Charles Baxter

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

“The White Horse” by Margaret Atwood

Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss

A Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

What Work Is by Philip Levine

A Walk With Tom Jefferson by Philip Levine

“Asleep in the Lord” by Jeffrey Eugenides

“The Aquarium” by Aleksandr Hemon

New Yorker fiction issue

“Arachne” by Ovid

“Narcissus” by Ovid

“Niobe” by Ovid

“No Man Is An Island” by John Donne

“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe

“Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Quite Early One Morning by Dylan Thomas

 

Война и мирЛьва Толстого

Spring 2011 Reading List

June 30th, 2011

Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter

The Torturer’s Apprentice by Gene Wolfe

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

Collected Stories by Lydia Davis

“Desert Breakdown, 1968” by Tobias Wolff

“The Model” by Guy de Maupassant

Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe

“Going For a Beer” by Robert Coover

“Atria” by Ramona Ausubel

“The Other Place” by Mary Gaitskill

“Noon Wine” by Katherine Anne Porter

“Flowering Judas” by Katherine Anne Porter

“Old Mortality” by Katherine Anne Porter

“Snow” by Charles Baxter

“Cousins” by Charles Baxter

“The Five Forty-Eight” by John Cheever

Lost in the City by Edward P. Jones

Letters to Yesenin by Jim Harrison

“Catastrophes in the Air” by Joseph Brodsky

“Daumier” by Donald Barthelme

“For I’m the Boy” by Donald Barthelme

The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot by Charles Baxter

“College Town, 1980” by Mary Gaitskill

“Folk Song” by Mary Gaitskill

Die Klavierspielerin von Elfriede Jelinek

Die Leiden des jungen Werthers von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Война и мир Льва Толстого

Котлован Андрея Платонова

«Третий сын» Андрея Платонова

Winter 2011 Reading List

March 22nd, 2011

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Runaway by Alice Munro
Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter
“Errand” by Raymond Carver
“Compartment” by Raymond Carver
“The King of Norway” by Amos Oz
“A Tale of The Ragged Mountains” by Edgar Allan Poe
The Torturer’s Apprentice by Gene Wolfe

Die Klavierspielerin von Elfriede Jelinek

Война и мир Льва Толстого
«Тамань» Михаила Лермонтова
«Предуведомление для тех, которые пожелали бы сыграть как следует ревизора» Николая Гоголя

Fall Reading List 2010

February 14th, 2011

Damascus Gate by Robert Stone

Bear and His Daughter by Robert Stone

poetry of John Keats

poetry of Robert Lowell

poetry of Primo Levi

“The Schizoid Problem in Creative Writing”

“El Paso” by Jayne Anne Phillips

“’Liable to be anything’ : The Creation of Joe Christmas in Faulkner’s Light in August” by Owen Robinson

“Shingles for the Lord” by William Faulkner

“Hair” by William Faulkner

“Stillness” by Charles Baxter

“Maps and Legends of Hell: Notes on Melodrama” by Charles Baxter

“Against Epiphanies” by Charles Baxter

“Rhyming Action” by Charles Baxter

The Necklace and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant, trans. by Joachim Neugroschel

“A Story by Maupassant” by Frank O’Connor

“Country Matters” by Frank O’Connor

“L’Aveu” by Guy De Maupassant

“Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff (both versions)

“The Chain” by Tobias Wolff (both versions)

The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight by Gina Ochsner

Runaway by Alice Munro

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

«Предуведомление для тех, которые пожелали бы сыграть как следует «ревизора»» Николая Гоголя

«В ссылке» Антона Чехова

«В овраге» Антона Чехова

Война и мир Льва Толстого

«Ги де Мопассан» Исаака Бабеля

Memorized:

“When I have fears that I may cease to be” by John Keats

Summer 2010 Reading List

November 8th, 2010

Shirley Jackson Novels and Stories Library of America

Light in August by William Faulkner

“Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“In Odessa” by Isaak Babel

“Dysfunctional Narratives, or: ‘Mistakes Were Made’” by Charles Baxter

“Counterpointed Characterization” by Charles Baxter

“Talking Forks: Fiction and the Inner Life of Objects” by Charles Baxter

Damascus Gate by Robert Stone

“Our Story Begins” by Tobias Wolff

“Report” by Donald Barthelme

Кроткая Фёдора Достоевского

Война и мир Льва Тольстого

«На подводе» Антона Чехова