Wednesday, December 5, 2012

EARTH PRIME TIME: INTERVIEW WITH J.H. WILLIAMS III (PART TWO) | DigBoston

EARTH PRIME TIME: INTERVIEW WITH J.H. WILLIAMS III (PART TWO) | DigBoston

Recommended Texts

A student in my first-year seminar requested I post a list of recommended reading, and viewing, so here goes:

Authors

Kurt Vonnegut

Margaret Atwood

Milan Kundera

Paul Theroux

Cormac McCarthy

John Irving

Barbara Kingsolver

Ralph Ellison

James Baldwin

Novels

Cat's Cradle (Breakfast of Champions), Kurt Vonnegut

The Handmaid's Tale (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood), Margaret Atwood

No Country for Old Men (The Road, All the Pretty Horses), Cormac McCarthy

A Prayer for Owen Meany, (The World According to Garp) John Irving

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

Millenium Trilogy (The Girl series), Stieg Larsson

Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

1Q84, Haruki Murakami

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje

Films

Raising Arizona (No Country for Old Men, all Coen Brothers films)

I Am Sam

Notting Hill

The American (novel also)

Blade Runner

A River Runs through It

Adaptation

Alien

Pleasantville

Comics/Graphic Novels

Batman: Year One

Cerebus (series)

Daredevil: The Man without Fear

The Sandman (series), Gaiman

V for Vendetta

* Just a taste in all categories, FYI

The Art of Being Still - NYTimes.com

The Art of Being Still - NYTimes.com