Drama
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry)
Potential NovelsAll the Pretty Horses or The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Things they Carried (Tim O'Brien)
Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Song of Solomon, Beloved, Sula (Toni Morrison)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) (Selections)
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
Poetry"Advice to a Prophet" (Richard Wilbur)
“America” (Allen Ginsberg)
“Days of 1964” (James Merrill)
"Happiness" or "The Current" (Raymond Carver)
“July in Washington” (Robert Lowell)
“Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” (Richard Wilbur)
“Memories of West Street and Lepke” (Robert Lowell)
“My Friends ” (W.S. Merwin)
“One Art” (Elizabeth Bishop)
“Sestina” (Elizabeth Bishop)
“Skunk Hour” (Robert Lowell)
“The Black Swan” (James Merrill)
“The Fish” (Elizabeth Bishop)
“The Octopus” (James Merrill)
“The Tartar Swept” (August Kleinzahler)
“The Visitor” (Carolyn Forché)
“Tulips” "Morning Song Blue" "Mirror" (Sylvia Plath)
Short Stories“A & P” (John Updike)
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” (Flannery O’Connor)
Listen to the author read it!
“A Small, Good Thing” (Raymond Carver)
“Flying Home” (Ralph Ellison)
“Petrified Man” (Eudora Welty)
“The Man Who Was Almos' a Man” (Richard Wright)
“The Swimmer” (John Cheever)
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (Joyce Carol Oates)
Essays
“Seeing” or other essays from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)
"How it Feels to be a Colored Me" (Zora Neale Hurston)
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
“On Being an American” (H.L. Mencken)
“Remembering Richard Wright” (Ralph Ellison)
“The Content of His Character” (Shelby Steele)
NonfictionThe American Language, 4th Edition (H.L. Mencken)
The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan)
Speeches“Address to the Broadcasting Industry” (19610 (Newton Minow)
“Brandenburg Gate Address” (June 12, 1987) (Ronald Reagan)
Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961) (John F. Kennedy)
Art, Music and Media
ArchitectureFarnsworth House, Plano, Illinois (1951)
Seagram Building, New York City, New York (1957)
Art
Barnett Newman, Concord (1949)
David Smith, Pillar of Sundays (1945)
Franz Kline, Untitled (1957)
Jackson Pollock, Number 28, 1950 (1950)
Louise Bourgeois, Red Fragmented Figure(1953)
Mark di Suvero, Are Years What? (For Marianne Moore) (1967)
Mark Rothko, Untitled (1964)
Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 70 (1961)
Willem de Kooning, Excavation (1950)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry)
Potential NovelsAll the Pretty Horses or The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Things they Carried (Tim O'Brien)
Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Song of Solomon, Beloved, Sula (Toni Morrison)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) (Selections)
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
Poetry"Advice to a Prophet" (Richard Wilbur)
“America” (Allen Ginsberg)
“Days of 1964” (James Merrill)
"Happiness" or "The Current" (Raymond Carver)
“July in Washington” (Robert Lowell)
“Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” (Richard Wilbur)
“Memories of West Street and Lepke” (Robert Lowell)
“My Friends ” (W.S. Merwin)
“One Art” (Elizabeth Bishop)
“Sestina” (Elizabeth Bishop)
“Skunk Hour” (Robert Lowell)
“The Black Swan” (James Merrill)
“The Fish” (Elizabeth Bishop)
“The Octopus” (James Merrill)
“The Tartar Swept” (August Kleinzahler)
“The Visitor” (Carolyn Forché)
“Tulips” "Morning Song Blue" "Mirror" (Sylvia Plath)
Short Stories“A & P” (John Updike)
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” (Flannery O’Connor)
Listen to the author read it!
“A Small, Good Thing” (Raymond Carver)
“Flying Home” (Ralph Ellison)
“Petrified Man” (Eudora Welty)
“The Man Who Was Almos' a Man” (Richard Wright)
“The Swimmer” (John Cheever)
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (Joyce Carol Oates)
Essays
“Seeing” or other essays from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)
"How it Feels to be a Colored Me" (Zora Neale Hurston)
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
“On Being an American” (H.L. Mencken)
“Remembering Richard Wright” (Ralph Ellison)
“The Content of His Character” (Shelby Steele)
NonfictionThe American Language, 4th Edition (H.L. Mencken)
The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan)
Speeches“Address to the Broadcasting Industry” (19610 (Newton Minow)
“Brandenburg Gate Address” (June 12, 1987) (Ronald Reagan)
Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961) (John F. Kennedy)
Art, Music and Media
ArchitectureFarnsworth House, Plano, Illinois (1951)
Seagram Building, New York City, New York (1957)
Art
Barnett Newman, Concord (1949)
David Smith, Pillar of Sundays (1945)
Franz Kline, Untitled (1957)
Jackson Pollock, Number 28, 1950 (1950)
Louise Bourgeois, Red Fragmented Figure(1953)
Mark di Suvero, Are Years What? (For Marianne Moore) (1967)
Mark Rothko, Untitled (1964)
Robert Motherwell, Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 70 (1961)
Willem de Kooning, Excavation (1950)