The Working Writer

Reading Lists

The Norton Field Guide to Writing

Mary Anne Boruch. The Stick that Breaks and Breaks.
   - Poems: New and Selected.

Patricia Henley. In the River Sweet
   - Hummingbird House-novel
   - Worship of the Common Heart: New and Selected Stories

Mary Leader. Red Signature

Bich Mihn Nguyen. Stealing Buddha’s Dinner

Donald Platt. My Father Says Grace
   - Cloud Atlas
   - Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, and Guns

Porter Shreve. The Obituary Writer-novel
   - Drives Like a Dream-novel

Sharon Solwitz. Blood and Milk-short story collection
   - Bloody Mary-novel

Course Reader

• Zinssser, William. On Writing Well.  pg. 1-52
• Hoagland, Tony. “Metaphor.” Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft
• Gilbert, Alan. “re:Reading the Active Reader Theory.”
• Perloff, Marjorie. “Against Transparency: From the Radiant Cluster to the Word as Such.”
• Hejinian, Lyn. “The Rejection of Closure.”
• Karr, Mary. “Against Decoration.”
• Griffin, Susan. “Red Shoes.”
• Nguyen, Bich. “Screw Botox – I need Wrinkles.” Jane.  11.6 (Aug. 2007)
• Shreve, Porter. “Deadly Prose.” Salon.com. http://archive.salon.com/people/ feature/2000/06/21/obitwriters/print.html
• Shreve, Porter. “The Elaquent Executioner.” Witness.
• Henley, Patricia. The Secret of Cartwheels. Sshort Story.
• Beres, Louis Rene. “Death, The Herd, and Human Survival.”