A Year in Review:
Texts Used in Don Langford's Courses in 2004

Fiction

Novels
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Ceremony in Lone Tree by Wright Morris
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
Paper Fish by Tina De Rosa
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman
Sonechka by Ludmila Ulitskaya
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Zero Train by Yuri Buida

Short Stories
"A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"Woman Hollering Creek" by Sandra Cisneros
"Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway
"Editha" by William Dean Howells
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"The King of the Bingo Game" by Ralph Ellison
"Going to Meet the Man" by James Baldwin
"A Conversation with My Father" by Grace Paley
"Separating" by John Updike
"Weekend" by Ann Beattie
"Looking for Mr. Green" by Saul Bellow
"Landscape and Loneliness: Three Voices" by Svetlana Alexiyevich
"Confessional Days: In Anticipation of the End of the World" by Nina Gorlanova
"Women's Lies" by Ludmila Ulitskaya
"Nina" by Natalia Smirnova
"My Name Is Woman" by Maria Arbatova
"Election Day" by Galina Volodina
"The Clean Zone" by Irina Polianskaya
"The Poet and the Muse" by Tatyana Tolstaya
"She Who Bears No Ill" by Yelena Tarasova
"The Day of Poplar Flakes" by Marina Paley

Drama
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Film
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Burnt by the Sun by Nikita Mikhalkov
Anna by Nikita Mikhalkov
I Am Sam, Directed by Jessie Nelson
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, (Alexander Solzhenitsyn), Directed by Caspar Wrede King of the Bingo Game (Ralph Ellison), Directed by Elise Robertson
Born on the Fourth of July (Ron Kovic), Directed by Oliver Stone

Nonfiction

Books
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9-11, by Nancy Snow
Language: Reading in Language and Culture, by Clark , Escholz, and Rosa
Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media, by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols

Articles
"The Campus Anti-Sweatshop Movement"
"Can't Live Without It"
"Consumption and Environment"
"Fast Food and Obesity--Is There a Connection?"
"Fast Food Encourages Over-eating and Weight Gain"
"Food Security, Farming, and the FTAA and WTO"
"Generation Disconnext"
"Global Warming and the Politics of Denial"
"Groundwater Shock" by Payal Sampat
"How Ads Get Kids to Say, I Want It"
"In Praise of Consumerism"
"Mind Games"
"Running Dry"
"Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas"
"Students for Sale"
"Thinking Big about the Living Wage"
"U.S. Shields Fast-Food Firms from Obesity"
"We Want It and We Want It Now"
"Youth on the Line: Overworked and Underage"

Video
Acquiring Human Language
Affluenza
Baby Talk
Be Good, Smile Pretty
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
The Cost of Cool
The Global Banquet: Politics of Food
He Said, She Said
Human Language Evolves
In Search of the First Language
Men, Women, and Language
Modern Meat
Illusions of News
The Truth about Lies