If we were professors, the following would constitute our syllabus:
The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto
The Collected Poems & Short Stories of Dorothy Parker
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
My Misspent Youth by Meghan Daum
Amphigorey Also by Edward Gorey
Diaries of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun
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The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass
Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker
After Lorca by Jack Spicer
The Marriage of Heaven & Hell by William Blake
Poetry and Prose of the Tang and Song by Li Bai