Because there's been a request for my list, here's what it looks like before it's chiseled down. I've read some of these things on my own, but I'm really looking forward to reading for school. I have to write craft annotations for the books I read, which are papers that discuss what the author is doing, how the author does it, and how it relates to my own writing. You can kind of get a sense of what my writing is like by reading this list, but then again maybe you can't.
Quesiton: Riva, are you really going to read along?
1. Lisa Shea Hula
2. Lorrie Moore Birds of America
3. A.M. Homes Safety of Objects
4. Mary Gaitskill Because They Wanted To
5. Antonya Nelson Female Trouble
6. Antonya Nelson Some Fun
7. Tobias Wolff The Night In Question
8. Tobias Wolff Old School
9. Alice Munro Lives of Girls and Women
10. Nathan Englander For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
11. Elizabeth Graver The Honey Thief
12. Karen Lee Boren Girls in Peril
13. Ian McEwan Atonement (Which Jess reads on "Gilmore Girls")
14. Katherine Ann Porter Pale Horse, Pale Rider
15. Singrid Nunez The Last Of Her Kind
16. Scott Snyder Voodoo Heart
17. Cheever Collected Stories
18. Cormac McCarthy Outer Dark
19. Cormac McCarthy Child of God
20. Judy Doenges Most Beautiful Girl In The World
21. Anne Carson Autobiography of Red
22. Paul Lisicky Lawnboy
23. Chekhov Stories
24. Richard Yates Collected Stories
25. Capote Breakfast at Tiffany's and Stories
26. John Gardner The Art of Fiction
27. Julia Checkoway Creating Fiction
I got an RSI writing this so you better appreciate it. love, me
