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Short Stories Then and Now

Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck
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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. The Thing around Your Neck. First Anchor books edition.. New York: Anchor Books, Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc, 2010.
Jamel Brinkley, “A Lucky Man”
Print copy only in Brooklyn College Stacks : PS3602 .R53183 A6 2018.
Brinkley, Jamel. A Lucky Man : Stories. 2018.
Chesnutt, Charles W., The Wife of His Youth
Chesnutt, Charles W. “The Wife of His Youth.” The Atlantic, July 1, 1898. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1898/07/the-wife-of-his-youth/306658/.

Danticat, Edwidge. “The Book of the Dead.”
Danticat, Edwidge. “The Book of the Dead.” The New Yorker. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/06/21/the-book-of-the-dead-2.

Eaton, Mrs. Spring Fragrance
Eaton, Edith Maude, and Ilan Stavans. “Mrs. Spring Frangrance.” In Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing, 97-108. First published in Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912)., 2009.
Rudolph Fisher, City of Refuge
From Fisher, Rudolph. The City of Refuge. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925.
Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Project Gutenberg
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Image from: The Yellow Wallpaper ( First 1892 Edition, with the Original Illustrations by Joseph Henry Hatfield)
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Haugney on Fareed Zakaria
Haughney, Christine. “CNN and Time Suspend Journalist After Admission of Plagiarism.” Media Decoder Blog (blog), August 10, 2012. https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/time-magazine-to-examine-plagiarism-accusation-against-zakaria/.

Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “Young Goodman Brown.” New England Magazine., 1835.
Kincaid, "Girl"
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Kincaid, Jamaica. “Girl.” In The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, edited by Ann Charters. Boston; New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2011.
Lanser, Feminist Criticism
Lanser, Susan S. “Feminist Criticism, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ and the Politics of Color in America.” Feminist Studies 15, no. 3 (1989): 415–41. https://doi.org/10.2307/3177938.
Melville, Bartelby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street. The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 9: The Piazza Tales: And Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860; The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 9: The Piazza Tales: And Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860.
Nam Le, Love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice…
Le, Nam. “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice...” Accessed December 13, 2019. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/loveandhonourandpityandprideandcompassionandsacrifice.
Orozco, Orientation
Print copy only, Hunter Cooperman Library Stacks PS3615 .R5883 O75 2011.
Orozco, Daniel. Orientation : and Other Stories. 1st ed., Faber and Faber, Inc., 2011.

Harlem Renaissance

Carpio, Glenda R., and Werner Sollors. “Part One: ‘The Book of Harlem," ‘Monkey Junk," and ‘The Back Room.’”
Carpio, Glenda R., and Werner Sollors. “Part One: ‘The Book of Harlem,’ ‘Monkey Junk,’ and ‘The Back Room.’” Amerikastudien / American Studies 55, no. 4 (2010): 562–65.
W.E.B. Du Bois, Criteria of Negro Art
Dubois, W. E. Burghardt. “The Crisis, Vol. 32, October 1926: pp. 290-297.

Published in The Crisis of October 1926, DuBois initially spoke these words at a celebration for the
recipient of the Twelfth Spingarn Medal, Carter Godwin Woodson. The celebration was part of the
NAACP's annual conference and was held in June 1926.
Jessie Fauset, "Plum bun : a novel without a moral"
Internet Archive-also available as text doc.
Fauset, Jessie Redmon. Plum Bun : A Novel without a Moral. New York : Frederick A. Stokes, 1928. http://archive.org/details/plumbunnovelwith00fausrich.

Haugney on Fareed Zakaria
Haughney, Christine. “CNN and Time Suspend Journalist After Admission of Plagiarism.” Media Decoder Blog (blog), August 10, 2012. https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/time-magazine-to-examine-plagiarism-accusation-against-zakaria/.

Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Harlem Renaissance
Brooklyn College Library Login: Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Harlem Renaissance, Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=679397.
Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Hughes, Langston. “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.(Reprint of a June 23, 1926 Article Focusing on Difficulties Faced by African American Artists)(1925-1935)(Reprint)” 300, no. 14 (2015): 83–83.
Zora Neale Hurston, Spunk
Hurston, Zora Neale. “Spunk.” In The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke. New York: Touchstone, 2014. https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=76D346A1-B429-4F8B-BBB0-2722BF137BB5.
Hurston, Zora Neale. “The Book of Harlem.”
Hurston, Zora Neale. “The Book of Harlem.” Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. 55, no. 4, 2010, pp. 566–569. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41158710.
Larsen, Passing
Larsen, Nella. Passing. New York & London, A. A. Knopf, 1929. http://archive.org/details/passing00lars.
Lewis, Its Dead Now
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Lewis, David Levering. “It’s Dead Now.” In When Harlem was in vogue., Ch.9. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Lewis, David L. When Harlem Was in Vogue.
Print Copy only: Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem Was in Vogue . 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1981. Print.
Brooklyn College Stacks (NX511.N4 L48 1989 )
Locke, Alain. “Art or Propaganda?”
Locke, Alain. “Art or Propaganda?” Harlem : A Forum of Negro Life., 1928. From: National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox. The Making of African American Identity: Vol. III, 1917-1968
George S. Schuyler, The Negro-Art Hokum
Source: George S. Schuyler, “The Negro-Art Hokum,” Nation 122 (June 16, 1926): 662–3.
Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene M., Chapter 1: “A Plea for Color”
In: Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene M.. Portraits of the New Negro Woman : Visual and Literary Culture In the Harlem Renaissance, Rutgers University Press, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=316423.

Sherrard-Johnson, Chapter 2: Jessie Fauset’s New Negro Woman Artist and the Passing Market
In: Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene M.. Portraits of the New Negro Woman : Visual and Literary Culture In the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Accessed December 12, 2019. ProQuest Ebook Central.

Jean Toomer, Karintha
In: Toomer, Jean. Cane. Project Gutenberg, from Boni & Liveright, 2019 [1923]. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60093.
Wintz, Cary D. Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance.
Print copy only. Available at numerous CUNY libraries.
Wintz, C. (1997). Black culture and the Harlem Renaissance . Texas A & M University Press.

Climate Change

Margaret Atwood, “Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet”
Atwood, Margaret. “Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet by Margaret Atwood.” The Guardian, September 25, 2009, sec. Books. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/26/margaret-atwood-mini-science-fiction.
Brooke Bolander, “Op-Ed From the Future: Who Should Live in Flooded Old New York?”
“Opinion | Who Should Live in Flooded Old New York? - The New York Times.” Accessed January 22, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/future-climate-change-flooded-new-york-city.html.
Rachel Carson, A Fable for Tomorrow
Carson, Rachel. “A Fable For Tomorrow.” In New Internationalist. From A Silent Spring, 1969, 2000. https://newint.org/features/2000/05/05/fable.
Vajra Chandrasekera, “Half-Eaten Cities”
Chandrasekera, Vajra. “Half-Eaten Cities.” In Everything Change Volume II | Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://climateimagination.asu.edu/everything-change-vol-2/.
Camille Dungy, “Characteristics of Life”
Dungy, Camille T. “Characteristics of Life - Poems | Academy of American Poets.” Text. Poets.org. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://poets.org/poem/characteristics-life.
Omar El Akkad, “Factory Air”
Akkad, Omar El. “Factory Air.” Guernica, March 25, 2019. https://www.guernicamag.com/factory-air/.
Omar El Akkad, “Faster Than We Thought: What Stories Will Survive Climate Change?”
El Akkad, Omar. “Faster Than We Thought: What Stories Will Survive Climate Change?” Literary Hub (blog), September 16, 2019. https://lithub.com/faster-than-we-thought-what-stories-will-survive-climate-change/.
Amitav Ghosh, “Where is the Fiction About Climate Change?”
Ghosh, Amitav. “Amitav Ghosh: Where Is the Fiction about Climate Change?” The Guardian, October 28, 2016, sec. Books. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/28/amitav-ghosh-where-is-the-fiction-about-climate-change-.
Lauren Groff, “Eyewall”
Groff, Lauren. “Eyewall.” Penguin.Co. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2018/lauren-groff-florida/.

Haugney on Fareed Zakaria
Haughney, Christine. “CNN and Time Suspend Journalist After Admission of Plagiarism.” Media Decoder Blog (blog), August 10, 2012. https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/time-magazine-to-examine-plagiarism-accusation-against-zakaria/.

Lacy Johnson, “How to Mourn a Glacier”
Johnson, Lacy M. “How to Mourn a Glacier.” The New Yorker, October 20, 2019. https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-to-mourn-a-glacier.
Cat Rambo, Excerpts from The Weight of Light: “Forward” & “Big Rural”
Rambo, Cat. “Excerpts from The Weight of Light: ‘Forward’ & ‘Big Rural.’” In Weight of Light. Center for Science and the Imagination, 2019. https://csi.asu.edu/story/weight-of-light/.
Joanne Rixon, What Lasts
Rixon, Joanne. “What Lasts.” Vice (blog), October 28, 2019. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne85g7/what-lasts.
Elizabeth Rush, “As the Seas Rise”
Rush, Elizabeth. “As the Seas Rise: Managing Retreat along New York City’s Coasts.” The New Republic, October 25, 2015. https://newrepublic.com/article/123182/managing-retreat-along-new-york-citys-coasts.
Craig Santos Perez, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (After Wallace Stevens)”
Santos Perez, Craig. “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens) by Craig Santos Perez - Poems | Academy of American Poets.” Text. Poets.org. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://poets.org/poem/thirteen-ways-looking-glacier-after-wallace-stevens.
Somini Sengupta, “’Bleak’ U.N. Report on a Planet in Peril Looms Over New Climate Talks”
Sengupta, Somini. “‘Bleak’ U.N. Report on a Planet in Peril Looms Over New Climate Talks.” The New York Times, November 26, 2019, sec. Climate. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/climate/greenhouse-gas-emissions-carbon.html.
Zadie Smith, “Elegy for a Country’s Seasons”
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Smith, Zadie. “Elegy for a Country’s Seasons,” April 3, 2014. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/04/03/elegy-countrys-seasons/.
Pitchaya Sudbanthad, “Floating”
Sudbanthad, Pitchaya. “Floating.” Guernica, March 11, 2019. https://www.guernicamag.com/floating/.
Rebecca Solnit, “Don’t Despair: The climate fight is only over if you think it is”
Solnit, Rebecca. “Don’t Despair: The Climate Fight Is Only over If You Think It Is | Rebecca Solnit.” The Guardian, October 14, 2018, sec. Opinion. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/14/climate-change-taking-action-rebecca-solnit.
Katy Waldman, “The Civilizing Power of Disaster”
Waldman, Katy. “Looting after Hurricane Sandy: Disaster Myths and Disaster Utopias Explained.” Slate, November 6, 2012. https://slate.com/technology/2012/11/looting-after-hurricane-sandy-disaster-myths-and-disaster-utopias-explained.html.