Reading List

• Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm
• Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe
• On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
• Their Dogs Came With Them by Helena Maria Viramontes
• Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes
• The Moths by Helena Maria Viramontes
• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey 
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Anton Chekhov
• The Monster Theory Reader edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
• An Ecotopian Lexicon edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy
• An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
• Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 
• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner 
• Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent 
• The Ancestor by Danielle Trussoni 
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 
• Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker 
• Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon 
• American Kundiman by Patrick Rosal  
• The Terrible Stories by Lucille Cliffton 
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 
• Winter Stars by Larry Levis 
• Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder 
• Human Dark with Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy 
• Death in the Mud Lick by Eric Erye 
• Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia by Elizabeth Catte 
• Just Kids by Patti Smith 
• Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses  
• The Metamorphosis of Plants by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
• Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 
• The Hunger by Alma Katsu 
• Wonderland by Zoje Stage 
• Sula by Toni Morrison 
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
• The Master by Colm Toíbín  
• Novalis: Philosophical Writings by Novalis