Contemporary Literature
I decided to make a list of all that I have read this year for my Contemporary Literature class. Well, I'm about 3/4 of the way through this list so there are a few things I have yet to read. This is probably one of the best English classes I have ever taken. I rated the novels I have read so far. What other course would have blogs and comic books on the reading list? It's fabulous.
Novels
Maus II by Art Spiegelman (comic book) (4.5/5)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac (3/5)
Yellow Back Radio Broke Down by Ishmael Reed (3/5)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (4/5)
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson (4.5/5)
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker (4/5)
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes (comic book) (4/5)
Adaptation: The Screenplay by Charlie and Donald Kaufman (5/5)
Baghdad Blog by Salam Pax (www.thebaghdadblog.com/dear_raed.blogspot.com) (4.5/5)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M Coetzee
Short Stories
True Names by Vernor Vinge
The Girl Who Was Plugged In by Tiptree Jr.
The SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas (manifesto)
The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved by Hunter S. Thompson
Poetry
"Howl" by Allen Ginsberg
"Lecture on Nothing" in Silence by John Cage
"Grapefruit" Section 4 in Poetry by Yoko Ono
"Memorial Day" in So Going Through Cities by Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman
Grasping at Emptiness by John Giorno
Excerpts from Eunoia by Christian Bok from
Excerpts from Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
Excerpts from Big Bank Take Little Bank by Paul Beattie
"For the Poets (Christopher Okigbo & Henry Dumas)" by Jayne Cortez in Postmodern American Poetry
"Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem)" by Linton Kwesi Johnson
Plays
"Harlem Duet" in Testifyin' by Dejanet Sears
Articles and Excerpts
"The Medium is the Message" by Marshall McLauhan
"Orchid Fever" by Susan Orlean
"Postmodern Blackness" by Bell Hooks
"Why I Am the Author of Sound Poetry and Free Poetry" by Henri Chopin
"Sudden Def" by Henry Louis Gates
"Manifesto of Letterist Poetry" by Isidore Isou
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