Classroom Units by Author
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Classroom Units Listed Alphabetically by Title
The American Woman in the Chinese Hat (Carole Maso)
"Ardor/Awe/Atrocity" (Walter Abish)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
"Bluegill" (Jayne Ann Phillips)
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
"Captivity" (Sherman Alexie)
"The Cariboo Cafe" (Helena María Viramontes)
Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)
City of Glass, Chapter 1 (Paul Auster)
"Clio 
History" (Theresa Hak Kyung Cha)
"Combat" (Curtis White)
Come Over Come Over (Lynda Barry)
"The Cover for Trout Fishing in America" (Richard Brautigan)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
"Dunyazadiad" (John Barth)
The Female Man, Part One (Joanna Russ)
"Femme Fatale" (Philip Roth)
"Feral Lasers" (Gerald Vizenor)
"The Gernsback Continuum" (William Gibson)
Housekeeping (Marilynne Robinson)
"How to Tell a True War Story" (Tim O’Brien)
Imago, Chapter 1 (Octavia Butler)
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
"Indigo" (Ntozake Shange)
"In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" (William Gass)
"I Recall My Childhood" (Kathy Acker)
Krazy Kat (Jay Cantor)
"The Leather Man" (E. L. Doctorow)
"Living with Contradictions" (Lynne Tillman)
"Lyndon" (David Foster Wallace)
"Major Major Major Major," Chapter 9 from Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
"The Making of ‘Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog’" (Mark Leyner)
Maus (Art Spiegelman)
"A Note on the Truth of the Tales" (William T. Vollmann)
Nova Express (William S. Burroughs)
"Of Dragons, Mountains, Transhumance, Sequence, and Sunken Cities, or: The Violence of the Letter" (Samuel R. Delany)
"The Pale Pink Roast" (Grace Paley)
"Part II: Friday Afternoon", from The Armies of the Night (Norman Mailer)
"The Path of the Red and Black Ink" (Gloria Anzaldúa)
Paul Auster’s CITY OF GLASS (Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli)
"The Phantom of the Movie Palace" (Robert Coover)
"Schrödinger’s Cat" (Ursula K. Le Guin)
"See the Moon?" (Donald Barthelme)
"Sentence" (Donald Barthelme)
"She Unnames Them" (Ursula K. Le Guin)
"Shiloh" (Bobbie Ann Mason)
"Shopping Is Not Creating" (Douglas Coupland)
Snow Crash, Chapter 1 (Neal Stephenson)
Stories from the Nerve Bible, excerpts (Laurie Anderson)
"Trippers and Askers" (Maxine Hong Kingston)
"Trout Death by Port Wine" (Richard Brautigan)
"The Turn of the Screw" (Joyce Carol Oates)
"The Visible Spectrum" (William T. Vollmann)
"Welcome to the Ghetto" (Ricardo Cortez Cruz)
White Noise, Chapters 7, 9, 17 (Don DeLillo)
Wild at Heart (Barry Gifford)
"X
Y" (Susan Daitch)
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Chapter 1 (Ishmael Reed)
"The Youngest Doll" (Rosario Ferré)
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Chapter 4 (Audre Lorde)