"A Portrait of an Artist" Reading List
Dorothy Allison:
The Women Who Hate Me: Poems (1983)
Trash: Short Stories (1988)
The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry 1980-1990 (1991)
Bastard Out of Carolina (1992)
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature (1994)
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995)
Cavedweller (1998)
She Who (TBA)
Mary Jo Bang
Apology for Want (1997)
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon (2004)
The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of the Swans (2001)
Louise In Love (2001)
The Bride of E (2009)
Elegy (2009)
Inferno: A New Translation (2012), Dante Alighieri (Author), Henrik Drescher (Illustrator) and Mary Jo Bang (Translator)
Richard Bausch:
Real Presence (1980)
Take Me Back (1981)
The Last Good Time (1984)
Mr. Field's Daughter (1989)
Violence (1992)
Rebel Powers (1993)
Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea (1996)
In the Night Season (1998)
Hello To the Cannibals (2002)
Thanksgiving Night (2006)
Peace (2008)
Spirits, And Other Stories (1987)
The Fireman's Wife, And Other Stories (1990)
Rare & Endangered Species (1994)
Selected Stories of Richard Bausch (The Modern Library) (1996)
Someone To Watch Over Me: Stories (1999)
The Stories of Richard Bausch (2003)
Wives & Lovers: 3 Short Novels (2004)
Something is Out There (2010)
These Extremes (2009)
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 7th edition (2005) (editor with the late R.V. Cassill)
Nick Flynn:
Some Ether: Poems (2000)
Blind Huber: Poems (2002)
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir (2004)
Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins: A Play (2008)
The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir (2010)
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands (2011)
Being Flynn (2012)
Tony Kushner
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Part One: Millennium Approaches Part Two: Perestroika (1993)
A Bright Room Called Day (1994)
Slavs! (1996)
A Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural (1997), Tony Kushner (Author), Joachim Neugrochel (Author)
Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia and Other Plays (1998)
The Illusion (2003), Tony Kushner (Author), Pierre Corneille (Author)
The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present (2003)
Brundibar: the Libretto, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak (2003)
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict (2003)
Caroline, or Change (2004)
Homebody/Kabul (2005)
But the Giraffe: A Curtain Raising (2010)
Mother Courage and Her Children (2010), Bertold Brecht (Author) Tony Kushner (Translator)
The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism & Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (2012)
Ed Bok Lee:
Real Karoke People (2005)
Whorled (2011)
Gary Shteyngart
The Russian Debutante's Handbook (2002)
Absurdistan (2006)
Super Sad True Love Story (2010)
Cheryl Strayed:
Torch (2007)
Wild (2012)
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (2012)
