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Dec 5: CD Wright, One with Others (Copper Canyon Press). Taught by Gail Ford
Dec 12: Jenette McCurdy, I’m Glad My Mom Died (Simon & Schuster). Taught by Lesley Dormen
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I’m Glad My Mom Died
Dec 19: Osip Mandelstam, Stolen Air Selected and Translated by Christian Wiman (EccoPress). Taught by Philip Schultz
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Stolen Air
Jan 2: Pushcart Prize 2023, Poetry: “A Brief History of the War” by Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer, “Bock Rottom” by Sam Herschel Wein, “Dear Coroner, How Could You Know” by Julia Paul, “Satyr’s Flute” by Shangyang Fang, and “An Essay On War” by Jennifer Chang, Taught by Marie Kilroy
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Pushcart 2023
Jan 9: Carolyn Ferrell, Dear Miss Metropolitan (Holt McDougal). Taught by Carolyn Ferrell. Discussion led by Cynthia Weiner.
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Dear Miss Metropolitan
Jan.16: Sean Thomas Dougherty, Death Prefers the Minor Keys (BOA Editions). Taught by Sean Thomas Dougherty. Discussion led by Lisa Bellamy.
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Death Prefers the Minor Keys
Jan 23: Kevin Barry, That Old Country Music (Anchor Books). Taught by Nancy Connors
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That Old Country Music
Jan 30: Jon Fosse, A Shining (Transit Books). Taught by Philip Schultz and Lucinda Holt
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A Shining
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Suggested Reading List
Fiction: Javier Marias, The Infatuations; Paul Beatty, The Sellout; John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead; Tommy Orange, There, There; Jenny Erpenbeck, Go Went Gone; Mohsin Hamid, Exit West; Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black; Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel; Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies; Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous; Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening; Richard Powers, The Overstory; NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory; Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures (a memoir); Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth
Poetry: Kevin Young, Brown; Nick Laird, Feel Free; Jericho Brown, The Tradition; Victoria Chang, Obit; Kathy Fagan, Bad Hobby; Rodney Jones, Alabama; Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear; Leslie Sainz, Have You Been Long Enough at Table