| Required Texts: Shirley Abbott’s The Future of Love (2008) Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007) Neil LaBute’s The Mercy Seat (2002) Dennis Loy Johnson, ed. Poetry after 9-11( 2002) Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land (2007) Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2006) F.P. Lione’s Clear Blue Sky (2007) Jay McInnervey’s The Good Life (2006) H.M. Naqui’s Home Boy: A Novel (2009) Anne Nelson’s The Guys (2002) Frances Khirallah Noble’s The New Belly Dancer of the Galaxy (2007) Joseph O’Neil’s Netherland (2008) Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s The Writing on the Wall (2006) Jess Walter’s The Zero (2007) Craig Wright’s Recent Tragic Events (2003)
Suggested Richard Gray’s After the Fall: American Literature since 9/11 Tram Nguyen’s We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities After 9/11 David Simpson’s 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration |