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Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Summer Reading List

Please see below for a list of books in print by 2007-2008 Hendrix- Murphy Foundation visitors inlcuding faculty-coordinator recommendations.

Michael Salinger
 (September 6-7)
Outspoken!: How to Improve Writing and Speaking Skills Through Performance Poetry (recommended to enjoy the educator)
Neon (recommended to enjoy the artist)
They Call It Fishing Not Catching
So Real, It’s Surreal
Sunday Morning
 

Suzan-Lori Parks (September 11)
Topdog/Underdog (recommended)
365 Days/365 Plays
Getting Mother’s Body
The Red Letter Plays
In the Blood
Venus
The American Play
 

Faulkner Pilgrimage (September 14-15)
As I Lay Dying or
Light in August
(both recommended)

Trenton Lee Stewart (October 18)
Flood Summer (recommended)
The Mysterious Benedict Society (recommended for young readers)

Joe Haldeman (October 22)
The Forever War (recommended: most famous)
1968: A Novel (recommended: best Vietnam book)
A Separate War and Other Stories (recommended: book discussion group selection)
Guardian
Escapade
Mindbridge
The Coming
 
Forever Peace
The Hemingway Hoax
Forever Free
None So Blind
Saul’s Death: And Other Poems
All My Sins Remembered
Buying Time
Worlds
Worlds Apart
Worlds Enough and Time
War Year
Tool of he Trade
Space Wars
The Accidental Time Machine
Old Twentieth
The Celebrity of Anders Hecht
Camouflage
War Stories

Maxine Hong Kingston (March 27)
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (recommended)
The Woman Warrior and China Men
The Fifth Book of Peace
To Be the Poet
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
China Men
Woman Warrior
 

Park Honan (April 3)
Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy (recommended)
Shakespeare: A Life
Jane Austen: Her Life
 

Craig Raine (April 8)
T. S. Eliot: Image, Text and Context
In Defense of T. S. Eliot
Collected Poems: 1978–1999
History: The Home Movie: A Novel in Verse