More Than You Asked For…

Here is my bibliography from my entire time in the MFA program. I have read all of these books except for six of them, which I will finish reading by the end of May-ish. This bibliography hasn’t been proofread or double-checked for alphabetical accuracy, but it’s a start…and it has to go into the final draft of my thesis in just a few days.

Ackerman, Diane. A Natural History of the Senses. New York: Random House, 1990.

Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. New York: Plume, 1992.

Allison, Dorothy. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure. New York: Plume, 1995.

Allison, Dorothy. Trash: Stories. New York: Plume, 2002.

Almond, Steve. My Life in Heavy Metal. New York: Grove Press, 2002.

Bank, Melissa. The Wonder Spot. New York: Viking, 2005.

Barnes, Kim. In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in an Unknown Country. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.

Bass, Rick. Winter [Notes from Montana]. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Bass, Rick. Hermit’s Story. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Bausch, Richard. The Stories of Richard Bausch. New York: Perennial, 2003.

Baxter, Charles. Harmony of the World: Stories. New York: Vintage Books, 1984.

Beard, Jo Ann. The Boys of My Youth. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1998.

Bell, Marvin. Rampant. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2004.

Bell, Marvin. Mars Being Red. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2007.

Bender, Aimee. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.

Bender, Aimee. Willful Creatures: Stories. New York: Doubleday, 2005.

Benjamin, Walter. “Hashish in Marseilles.” The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. Ed. Phillip Lopate. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 370-375.

Blew, Mary Clearman. All But the Waltz. New York: Viking, 1991.

Blunt, Judy. Breaking Clean. New York: Vintage Books, 2002.

Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Without a Hero and Other Stories. New York: Viking, 1994.

Burroughs, Augusten. Running with Scissors. New York: Picador, 2002.

Burroway, Janet. Embalming Mom: Essays in Life. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.

Carver, Raymond. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? The Stories of Raymond Carver. New York: McGraw-Hill book Company, 1976.

Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage Books, 1984.

Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1991.

Collins, Billy. Questions About Angels. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.

D’Agata, John. Halls of Fame. St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 2001.

Davis, Claire. Winter Range. New York: Picador, 2000.

Davis, Claire. Labors of the Heart. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006.

Defrees, Madeline. Spectral Waves. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2006.

Didion, Joan. “Goodbye to All That.” The Art of the Personal Essay. Ed. Phillip Lopate. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday, 1994. 680-88.

Didion, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1968.

Didion, Joan. The White Album. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1979.

Dillard, Annie. “Seeing.” The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 693-706.

Dillard, Annie. For the Time Being. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

Driscoll, Jack. Wanting Only to Be Heard. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1992.

Driscoll, Jack. Lucky Man, Lucky Woman. New York: Orchard, 1996.

Driscoll, Jack. How Like an Angel. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Dubus, Andre. Dancing After Hours: Stories. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

Dybek, Stuart. I Sailed With Magellan. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2003.

Eco, Umberto. Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Flynn, Nick. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004.

Frasier, Joelle. The Territory of Men. New York: Random House, 2003.

Fromm, Pete. Indian Creek Chronicles. New York: Lyons & Burford, 1993.

Fromm, Pete. Night Swimming. New York: Picador, 1999.

Fuller, Alexandra. Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.

Gailey, Jeannine Hall. Becoming the Villainess. Bowling Green, Kentucky: Steel Toe Books, 2006.

Galloway, Lisa. New Poets Short Books: Liminal: A Life of Cleavage. Ed. Marvin Bell. Sand Point, Idaho: Lost Horse Press, 2007.

Galvin, James. The Meadow. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1992.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Wait Till Next Year. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Gutkind, Lee, ed. The Best Creative Nonfiction: Vol. 1. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.

Hegi, Ursula. Floating in My Mother’s Palm. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1990.

Hegi, Ursula. Hotel of the Saints: Stories. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Hoagland, Edward. Compass Points: How I Lived. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.

Howell, Christopher. Just Waking. Sand Point, Idaho: Lost Horse Press, 2003.

Jones, Thom. The Pugilist at Rest: Stories. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.

Jones, Thom. Cold Snap: Stories. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995.

Karr, Mary. The Liar’s Club. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.

Kimmel, Haven. A Girl Named Zippy. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

Kimmel, Haven. She Got Up Off the Couch And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana. New York: Free Press, 2006.

Kinnell, Galway. The Book of Nightmares. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971.

Kitchen, Judith and Mary Paumier Jones, ed. In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.

Kitchen, Judith and Mary Paumier Jones, eds. In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal. New York: W. W. North & Company, 1999.

Kitchen, Judith, ed. Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Kittredge, William. Hole in the Sky. New York: Vintage Books, Inc. 1992.

Kwang, Casey L. B. On Blue Felix Paper. Wellstone Press, 1998.

Lamb, Charles. “Dream Children: A Reverie.” The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. Ed. Phillip Lopate. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 169-172.

Laux, Dorianne. Awake. Rochester, New York: Boa Editions, 1990.

Laux, Dorianne. Smoke. New York: Boa Editions, Ltd., 2000.

Laux, Dorianne. Facts About the Moon. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.

Lesley, Craig. Burning Fence: A Western Memoir of Fatherhood. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.

Levertov, Denise. Making Peace. Ed. Peggy Rosenthal. New York, New Directions, 2006.

Levin, Dana. In the Surgical Theatre. Philadelphia: The American Poetry Review, 1999.

Markham, Beryl. The Splendid Outcast: African Stories. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987.

McCarthy, Mary. How I Grew: A Memoir of the Early Years. New York: Harcourt, 1987.

McCall, Catherine. Lifeguarding. New York: Harmony Books, 2006.

McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

McNally, John, ed. When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School. New York: Free Press, 2007.

Millar, Joseph. Overtime. Spokane, Washington: Eastern Washington University Press, 2001.

Moehringer, J.R. The Tender Bar. New York: Hyperion, 2006.

Moffat, Mary Jane. The Times of Our Lives: A Guide to Writing Autobiography and
Memoir. Santa Barbara: John Daniel and Company, 1989.

Moore, Dinty W., ed. “Hot and Cold.” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction Issue 26 (Winter 2008): Online. Internet. 13 March 2008. Available: http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/.

O’Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find. New York: Farrar, Straus, and
Giroux, Inc., 1955.

Oliver, Mary. Blue Pastures. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1995.

Orwell, George. “Such, Such Were the Joys.” The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. Ed. Phillip Lopate. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 269-302.

Parker, Michael. Don’t Make Me Stop Now: Stories. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2007.

Purpura, Lia. On Looking: Essays. Louisville: Sarabande Books, 2006.

Quammen, David. The Flight of the Iguana: A Sideline View of Science and Nature. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

Ray, Janisse. Wild Card Quilt: The Ecology of Home. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2003.

Rember, John. Traplines. New York: Vintage Books, 2003.

Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping. New York: Picador, 1980.

Rogers, Pattiann. Splitting and Binding. Hanover, New Hampshire: Weslyan University Press, 1989.

Sears, Peter. The Brink. Salt Lake City, Utah: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2000.

Sedaris, David. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004.

Selzer, Richard. “The Knife.” The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. Ed. Phillip Lopate. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 708-714.

Smith, Alison. Name All the Animals. New York: Scribner, 2004.

Snyder, Gary. Rip Rap, & Cold Mountain Poems. San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1958.

Stafford, William and Marvin Bell. Segues: A Correspondence in Poetry. Boston: David R. Godine, 1983.

Steele, Richard. “An Hour or Two Sacred to Sorrow.” The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. Ed. Phillip Lopate. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 126-128.

Trussoni, Danielle. Falling Through the Earth. New York: Henry Hold and Company,
2006.

Vonnegut, Kurt. A Man Without a Country. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007.

Walls, Jeannette. The Glass Castle. New York: Scribner, 2005.

Watson, Brad. Last Days of the Dog-Men. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1996.

Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge : An Unnatural History of Family and Place. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.

Wolff, Tobias. The Night in Question: Stories. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

Wolff, Tobias. This Boy’s Life. New York: Grove Press, 1999.

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1957.

Woolf, Virginia. “The Death of the Moth.” The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. Ed. Phillip Lopate. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 265-267.