Catch Up

I have building a reading list for comprehensive exam. I’m working on working class lit. Here are some of the books on my list so far:

1) Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

2) Something by Charles Bukowski

3) Something by Raymond Carver (I’m leaning towards Where I’m Calling From, but I like the title of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love better)

4) Maggie, Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

5) An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

6) The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

7) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (I thought about doing Summer, but I think Frome is more of working class thing. Maybe I can do both)

I’ll add more later. I have some newer names. . . if you have any suggestions, my dear fourteen readers (or is it down to four now? I know I’ve lost some on my short hiatus), please send them to me via comments.

I happened across Alasdair Gray while perusing the Internet for writers. He seems really neat and I really (really!) want to read his first novel Lanark.

More catch-up later.