Here are the books, essays, poems, and stories people are talking about at Bread Loaf (in class and out) that I've overheard:
Kierkegaard - On Repetition (essay)
Cormac McCarthy - The Road (novel)
Charles Baxter - Beast of Love (novel)
Anything by Grace Paley
Ditto for Philip Roth, but esp. his memoir - Patrimony
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (novel)
Denis Johson - Emergency (story)
Kevin Brockmeier - The Ceiling (story)
Tim O'Brien - How to Tell a True War Story (story)
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner (novel)
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow (novel)
Raymond Carver - Cathedral (story)
Lorrie Moore - People Like That Are the Only People Here (story)
Poets:
Frank O'Hara - anything
Heather McHugh - Broken English
Eavan Boland and Mark Strand - The Making of a Poem
James Wright - Two Citizens
Elizabeth Bishop
Louise Gluck
James Merrill - The World and the Child (poem)
Kay Ryan
C.D. Wright



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