Essays on Writing
Lorde, Audrey. “Poetry Is Not a Luxury.” In The Schlager Anthology of Black America: A Student’s Guide to Essential Primary Sources, 806-809 out of 950. Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES: Schlager Group, Incorporated, 2021. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6726759.
Wellman, Mac. “Speculations: An Essay on the Theatre.” In The Difficulty of Crossing a Field: Nine New Plays. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/229031101.html. (made freely available on his website)
Fiction (short stories):
Link, Kelly. “Stone Animals.” Conjunctions, no. 43 (2004): 208–48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24517766
Murakami, Haruki, and Alfred Birnbaum, (trans.). “TV People.” The New Yorker, September 2, 1990. Https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/09/10/tv-people. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181604.
Alternate: something from Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges (or "The Garden of Forking Paths?")
Fiction (excerpts from longer works - will be less than 10% of the novel):
Anthony, Jessica. “Selections.” In Enter the Aardvark, First edition., 182 p. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
Kincaid, Jamaica. “Holidays.” In At the Bottom of the River, 29-36 out of 82 p. New York: Plume, 1992. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780452267541.pdf.
Offill, Jenny. “Chapter 1: Weather.” In Weather, 1-24 out of 224. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181715.
Poetry:
Vuong, Ocean. “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” Text/html. Poetry Foundation Magazine. Poetry Magazine, August 25, 2023. Https://www.poetryfoundation.org/. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57586/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous.
Selections from Douglas Kearney (he read at BC and we were provided with a reader, attached, starting on page 36.
Kearney, Douglas. “Excerpt from Erros.” In Erros, n.d. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181499.
———. “Excerpt from I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always.” In I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, 120AD. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181499.
———. “Excerpt from Mess and Mess And.” In Mess and Mess And, 18–29. Las Cruces, NM: Noemi Press, 2015. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181499.
———. “Excerpt from Sho.” In Sho, 10, 18, 45–48, 55–57. Seattle: Wave Books, 2021. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181499.
Plays:
Is God Is - Aleshea Harris (at BC as an ebook)
Selections from Happy Days, Samuel Beckett
Alternate: Cloud Nine, Caryl Churchill
Aleshea Harris. “Is God Is.” In Is God Is / What to Send Up When It Goes Down, Vol. First edition. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2022.
Anthony, Jessica. “Selections.” In Enter the Aardvark, First edition., 182 p. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
Beckett, Samuel. “Scene from Happy Days.” In Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts, 8-13 out of 64. New York: Grove Press, 1989. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181626.
Foundation, Poetry. “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.” Text/html. Poetry Magazine. Poetry Magazine, August 25, 2023. Https://www.poetryfoundation.org/. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57586/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous.
Kearney, Douglas. “Excerpt from Erros.” In Erros, n.d. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181499.
———. “Excerpt from I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always.” In I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, 120AD. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181499.
———. “Excerpt from Mess and Mess And.” In Mess and Mess And, 18–29. Las Cruces, NM: Noemi Press, 2015. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181499.
———. “Excerpt from Sho.” In Sho, 10, 18, 45–48, 55–57. Seattle: Wave Books, 2021. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181499.
Kincaid, Jamaica. “‘At the Bottom of the River,’ by Jamaica Kincaid.” The New Yorker, April 25, 1982. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1982/05/03/at-the-bottom-of-the-river.
———. “Holidays.” In At the Bottom of the River, 29-36 out of 82 p. New York: Plume, 1992. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780452267541.pdf.
Link, Kelly. “Stone Animals.” Conjunctions, no. 43 (2004): 208–48.
Lorde, Audrey. “Poetry Is Not a Luxury.” In The Schlager Anthology of Black America: A Student’s Guide to Essential Primary Sources, 806-809 out of 950. Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES: Schlager Group, Incorporated, 2021. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brooklyn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6726759.
Mengiste, Maaza. “Excerpt of The Shadow King.” In The Shadow King, 22–53. [Edinburgh]: Canongate [Edinburgh], 2020. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181499.
Murakami, Haruki, and Alfred Birnbaum, (trans.). “TV People.” The New Yorker, September 2, 1990. Https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/09/10/tv-people. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181604.
Offill, Jenny. “Chapter 1: Weather.” In Weather, 1-24 out of 224. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=73181715.
Vuong, Ocean. “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.” Text/html. Poetry Foundation Magazine. Poetry Magazine, August 25, 2023. Https://www.poetryfoundation.org/. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57586/on-earth-were-briefly-gorgeous.
Wellman, Mac. “Speculations: An Essay on the Theatre.” In The Difficulty of Crossing a Field: Nine New Plays. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/229031101.html.
