Here's my reading list for my final term in Bennington's MFA program for giggles...
(Note, it's half the length of a normal term's reading list because we're writing our theses and preparing a public lecture in the final term)
1…Dante Alighieri, Inferno
2…Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility or Emma
3…James Baldwin, Notes of A Native Son or Nobody Knows My Name
4…Roberto Bolano, By Night In Chile (novella)
5…J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country
6…Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
7…Junot
Diaz, Drown
8…Flaubert,
Madame Bovary
9…Mavis
Gallant, Paris Stories
10..Marie Howe, In the Kingdom of Ordinary Time (poetry)
11..Denis
Johnson, Jesus’ Son
12..Denis Johnson, Incognito Lounge (poetry)
13..Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
14..Antonya Nelson (still need to decide which one...suggestions?)
15..Muriel Spark, Public Image
Really, Dante's Inferno?! I'd figure you'd have that pretty well memorized by now!
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