English Professors Offer Summer Reading Suggestions |
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June 2, 2003 -- Looking for some ideas to help when choosing titles for your summer reading pleasure? Faculty members in the University of Wyoming Department of English are offering these suggestions from the lists they plan to read this summer:
Sandy Clark -- Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior, China Men, and Tripmaster Monkey"; Ronald Takaki's "A Different Mirror"; and "Language and Gesture," edited by David McNeill.
Alyson Hagy -- Tolstoy's "War and Peace," and "Walking: A History," by Rebecca Solnit.
Janice Harris -- Robert Lewis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island," said to be "quite interesting to re-read as a post-colonial text, displaying British Empire ideology."
Peaches Henry -- A memoir/cookbook called "Monsoon Diary," which promises to "give me new and exciting recipes featuring curry and other spices from India and to remind me of days spent hovering over Big Mama's little kitchen table making traditional foods"; Elizabeth Peters' new mystery, "Children of the Storm," featuring Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her fearless extended family; and Paul John Eakin's "How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves."
Caroline McCraken Flesher -- Peter Radford, "The Celebrated Captain Barclay: Sport, Gambling and Adventure in Regency Times," about a celebrated walker who covered hundreds of miles in days, subsisting on gruelling training regimes designed by the time's great pugilists"; Sarah Bakewell, "The Smart: The True Story of Margaret Caroline Rudd and the Unfortunate Perreau Brothers," about "an Irish beauty who ran off with a soldier and became a courtesan"; and Jan Bondeson's "The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale," set in the 1780s when "London women were terrorized by an assailant who stabbed them in the buttocks and sometimes in the nose."
Vicki Lindner -- "Waiting for Snow in Havana," by Carlos Eire; "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down," by Anne Fadiman; "The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays by Richard Selzer"; "Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care," by Mullan; "The Gay and Lesbian Studies Reader, A Boy's Own Story," by Edmund White; "Explosion in a Cathedral," by Alejo Carpentier; and John D'Agata's new anthology, "The Next American Essay."
Posted on Monday, June 02, 2003
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