English and Reading Resources
2020
Gender and the Superhero Narrative
edited by Michael Goodrum et al
An engaging introduction to central issues regarding how female superheroes address representations of equality, justice, and female empowerment that are absent in law and in government policies.
First You Write a Sentence
by Joe Moran
An exploration of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace through the art of building sentences.
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature
edited by Dohra Ahmad
This anthology covers the span of 300 years and 30 countries. The diversity of viewpoints and genres makes for an invaluable introduction to the personal dimensions of global immigration.
Monster, She Wrote
by Lisa Kroger and Melanie Anderson
Part biography, part reader's guide, the engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists introduces more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories.
Behind the Book
by Chris Mackenzie Jones
While their paths to publication may be unique, each author offers important lessons learned from their challenges, mistakes, and successes.
When Fiction Feels Real
by Elaine Auyoung
Auyoung provides new tools for thinking about what is unique about literary experience by uncovering a range of narrative techniques that major nineteenth-century novelists use to shape the experience of reading.
Don’t Read Poetry
by Stephanie Burt
Burt writes that people shouldn’t read “poetry,” per se. Instead, they should read individual poems to obliterate the imposing monolith of Poetry with a capital P.
Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel
by George Orwell & Odyr
Odyr’s adaptation of Orwell’s 1945 classic transforms Orwell’s period writing into a timeless, immediately terrifying warning about the dangers of abusive power.
Thick and Other Essays
by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Eight essays explore all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society through topics such as beauty, media, and money.
