A Year in Review:
Texts Used in Don Langford's Courses in 2005

Fiction

Novels
Another Country by James Baldwin
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
White Noise by Don DeLillo

Short Stories
"Doctor Jack-o'-Lantern" by Richard Yates
" King of the Bingo Game" by Ralph Ellison
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"Going to Meet the Man" by James Baldwin
"Rosie Gets a Soul" by Deborah Eisenberg
"A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Drama
Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Film
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
King of the Bingo Game (Ralph Ellison), Directed by Elise Robertson
A Lesson Before Dying (based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines)
The Lottery (based on short story by Shirley Jackson)
The Last Tycoon (based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Nonfiction

Books
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Collected Essays by James Baldwin
James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming
Quick Access (Fourth Edition) by Lynn Quitman Troyka
Ten on Ten: Major Essayists on Recurring Themes, edited by Robert Atwan

Articles/Essays
"The American Dream and the American Negro" by James Baldwin
"Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" by Alice Walker
"The Campus Anti-Sweatshop Movement"
"Can't Live Without It"
"Consumption and Environment"
"The Creative Process" by James Baldwin
"A Critical History of The Awakening"
"The Dinosaur Rip-off" by Stephen Jay Gould
"The Discovery of What It Means To Be an American" by James Baldwin
"Everybody's Protest Novel" by James Baldwin
"Fast Food and Obesity--Is There a Connection?"
"Fast Food Encourages Over-eating and Weight Gain"
"Faulkner and Desegregation" by James Baldwin
"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"
"In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" by Alice Walker
"Mind Games"
"My Dungeon Shook" by James Baldwin
"Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South" by James Baldwin
"Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin
"Once More to the Lake" by E.B. White
"On Going Home" by Joan Didion
"Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening" by Margit Stange
"The Price of the Ticket" by James Baldwin
"A Report from Occupied Territory" by James Baldwin
"Running Dry"
"Seeking a New Globalism in Chiapas" by Tom Hayden
"Sweet Lorraine" by James Baldwin
"Stranger in the Village" by James Baldwin
"Students for Sale"
"A Talk to Teachers" by James Baldwin
"Thinking Big about the Living Wage"
"Total Eclipse" by Annie Dillard
"Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book" by Elaine Showalter
"Un-Utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in Kate Chopin's The Awakening" by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
"U.S. Shields Fast-Food Firms from Obesity"
"Washington Square, 1946" by Cynthia Ozick
"We Want It and We Want It Now"
"Youth on the Line: Overworked and Underage"

Video
Affluenza
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
The Corporation
The Cost of Cool
Global Banquet: The Politics of Food
Modern Meat
The Murder of Emmett Till