A Year in Review:
Texts Used in Don Langford's Courses in 2003

Fiction

Novels
1984 by George Orwell
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Another Country by James Baldwin
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell
Typical American by Gish Jen
The Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
White Noise by Don DeLillo
The Wicked Pavilion by Dawn Powell

Short Stories
"A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"Woman Hollering Creek" by Sandra Cisneros
"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver
"Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason

Drama
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Film
1984 by George Orwell
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
I am Sam
The Dollmaker
Matewan
Be Good, Smile Pretty by Tracy Droz Tragos
Born on the Fourth of July by Oliver Stone

Nonfiction

Books
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Language: Reading in Language and Culture, by Clark , Escholz, and Rosa.

Articles
"About the Earth and about Women"
"The Campus Anti-Sweatshop Movement"
"Can't Live Without It"
"Consumption and Environment"
"Global Warming and the Politics of Denial"
"Groundwater Shock" by Payal Sampat
"How Ads Get Kids to Say, I Want It"
"The More Factor" by Laurence Shames
"The Overworked American" by Juliet Schor
"Progressive Obsolescence" by Roland Marchand
"Students for Sale"
"Thinking Big about the Living Wage"
"Tragedy and the Common Man" by Arthur Miller
"Youth on the Line: Overworked and Underage"

Video
Acquiring Human Language
Baby Talk
Consuming Images
Consuming Passions
Discovering Human Language
The Global Banquet: Politics of Food
Human Language Evolves
The Infinite Voyage: Life in the Balance
In Search of the First Language
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Men, Women, and Language
Merchants of Cool
Modern Meat