In trying to show us the light, Marilynne Robinson illuminates the darkness.
DIY MFA Reading List: “Collected Stories” by Raymond Carver
The tortured collaboration between Raymond Carver and Gordon Lish produced a masterpiece in American short fiction.
DIY MFA Reading List: “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
Truth is stranger than fiction in Tim O’Brien’s brilliant meditation on the Vietnam War.
DIY MFA Reading List: “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” by Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” dares us to open our eyes.
DIY MFA Reading List: “Suttree” by Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy’s tragicomic “Suttree” is fueled not by a love of life, but an obsession with the certainty of death.
DIY MFA Reading List: “T.C. Boyle Stories”
T.C. Boyle’s Collected “Stories” Poke Fun at Love, Death … and Everything in Between
DIY MFA Reading List: “Collected Stories and Other Writings” by John Cheever
Cheever channels Kafka and Fitzgerald in his “Collected Stories and Other Writings”.
DIY MFA Reading List: “Middlemarch” by George Eliot
a Satire on the Current U.S. Economic and Political Debate
DIY MFA Reading List: “2666″ by Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño explores the intersections of art, power, and murder in his disturbing masterpiece “2666″.
DIY MFA Reading List: “Libra” by Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo gets to the heart of the Kennedy assassination plot – and the murderous American soul – in his psychological thriller “Libra”.