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Writers are readers, too! Here are some books that we've found inspiring, exciting, and fun....

Diane Wilson

  • Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
  • Eudora Welty, Curtain of Grass
  • William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
  • Flannery O'Conner, Wise Blood
  • Toni Morrison, Beloved

Lowell Mick White, PhD

  • Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
  • Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
  • Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • Flannery O'Conner, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
  • Hunter Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • Bud Shrake, Strange Peaches
  • Billy Lee Brammer, The Gay Place
  • Sarah Bird, The Mommy Club
  • John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

Hazel Ward, PhD

  • Julio Cortez, Hopscotch
  • Elsa Morante, History: A Novel
  • Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
  • Machiavelli, The Prince
  • Laura Kinsale, Flowers from the Storm
  • Shakespeare, (all the tragedies)
  • Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Lee Meitzen Grue

  • Louis Untermeyer, A Treasury of Great Poems
  • John M. Barry, The Rising Tide
  • Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature
  • Pablo Neruda, Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970
  • Anton Chekhov, Forty Stories
  • E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
  • Tillie Olsen, Silences
  • Eudory Welty, (anything)
  • Flannery O'Connor, (anything)
  • Martha McFerren, Women in Cars and Anthropology at Midnight
  • James Nolan, Why I Live in the Forest and Higher Ground
  • Andrei Codrescu, The Blood Countess and Scherezade and (many books of poetry)
  • Everette Maddox, American Waste
  • Jerry Ward, Jr., After Katrina
  • Dave Brinks, The Caveat Onus
  • Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular
  • Jaime Gil Biedma (James Nolan translator), Longing
  • Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa (editors), The Jazz Poetry Anthology