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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
by Anna Deavere Smith
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is a work of documentary theatre comprised of monologues derived from interviews that the playwright, Anna Deavere Smith, conducted with citizens of Los Angeles whose li...
Marigolds
by Eugenia Collier
When Lizabeth thinks about the dusty shantytown where she grew up, she remembers Miss Lottie’s dazzling yellow marigolds. That, and the devastating moment when she became more woman than child. At...
Flyboys
by Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff’s “Flyboys” tells the story of the narrator and his friend Clark’s plans to build a plane. The project largely takes place in Clark’s bedroom, where the boys spend weeks designing thei...
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
by Anna Deavere Smith
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is a work of documentary theatre comprised of monologues derived from interviews that the playwright, Anna Deavere Smith, conducted with citizens of Los Angeles whose li...
Marigolds
by Eugenia Collier
When Lizabeth thinks about the dusty shantytown where she grew up, she remembers Miss Lottie’s dazzling yellow marigolds. That, and the devastating moment when she became more woman than child. At...
Flyboys
by Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff’s “Flyboys” tells the story of the narrator and his friend Clark’s plans to build a plane. The project largely takes place in Clark’s bedroom, where the boys spend weeks designing thei...
The Three-Body Problem
by Liu Cixin
It’s the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and for college student Ye Wenjie, the world is falling apart. Her father, a theoretical physics professor named Ye Zhetai, has been tortured to ...
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
by Anna Deavere Smith
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is a work of documentary theatre comprised of monologues derived from interviews that the playwright, Anna Deavere Smith, conducted with citizens of Los Angeles whose li...
Marigolds
by Eugenia Collier
When Lizabeth thinks about the dusty shantytown where she grew up, she remembers Miss Lottie’s dazzling yellow marigolds. That, and the devastating moment when she became more woman than child. At...
Flyboys
by Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff’s “Flyboys” tells the story of the narrator and his friend Clark’s plans to build a plane. The project largely takes place in Clark’s bedroom, where the boys spend weeks designing thei...
The Three-Body Problem
by Liu Cixin
It’s the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and for college student Ye Wenjie, the world is falling apart. Her father, a theoretical physics professor named Ye Zhetai, has been tortured to ...
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
In The Warmth of Other Suns, renowned journalist Isabel Wilkerson captures the personal drama and historical significance of the Great Migration, in which more than six million Black Southerners mo...
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
by Lynn Nottage
Seventeen-year-old Ernestine Crumb addresses the audience and explains that grief laid her family flat. When her mother died, her father, Godfrey, was unable to do anything but mourn his wife—until...
The Three-Body Problem
by Liu Cixin
It’s the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and for college student Ye Wenjie, the world is falling apart. Her father, a theoretical physics professor named Ye Zhetai, has been tortured to ...
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
In The Warmth of Other Suns, renowned journalist Isabel Wilkerson captures the personal drama and historical significance of the Great Migration, in which more than six million Black Southerners mo...
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
by Lynn Nottage
Seventeen-year-old Ernestine Crumb addresses the audience and explains that grief laid her family flat. When her mother died, her father, Godfrey, was unable to do anything but mourn his wife—until...
The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo
The mouse Despereaux is born in a castle under unusual circumstances: his ears are very large, and unlike normal baby mice, he’s born with his eyes wide open. His parents, Antoinette and Lester, ar...
Elephant
by Raymond Carver
The unnamed narrator of “Elephant” is supporting his whole family. His brother got laid off, and now he needs money or he’s going to lose his house. The narrator’s mother needs a check every month ...
A New England Nun
by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
“A New England Nun” tells the story of Louisa Ellis, a woman engaged to be married to Joe Dagget but who feels ambivalent because she has loved living alone for the last fifteen years. The story op...
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass is a combination of memoir, science writing, and Indigenous American philosophy and history. The book opens with a retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story, in which Skywom...
The Inconvenient Indian
by Thomas King
In the Prologue to The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King explains his use of fiction and nonfiction to tell the history of relations between Native Americans and white settlers in North America. He ...
Garbology
by Edward Humes
The book begins with the image of the Gastons, a couple of hoarders on the South Side of Chicago who, in 2010, had to be literally rescued from their home because of all the trash in it. Though the...
A Sentimental Journey
by Laurence Sterne
An English priest named Yorick, deciding to travel to France, packs and sails for Calais. In Calais, a Franciscan monk begs Yorick for alms. Yorick cruelly rebuffs him. After the monk leaves, Yoric...
The Sorrow of War
by Bảo Ninh
In The Sorrow of War, a writer named Kien struggles to process his traumatic experience in the Vietnam War. A former soldier for the North Vietnamese Army, he has trouble finding happiness in postw...
Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein
In the distant future, humanity is united under the Terran Federation. In this society, the only way to earn franchise and full citizenship is through volunteering for “Federal Service” in the mili...
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
In The Warmth of Other Suns, renowned journalist Isabel Wilkerson captures the personal drama and historical significance of the Great Migration, in which more than six million Black Southerners mo...
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
by Lynn Nottage
Seventeen-year-old Ernestine Crumb addresses the audience and explains that grief laid her family flat. When her mother died, her father, Godfrey, was unable to do anything but mourn his wife—until...
The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo
The mouse Despereaux is born in a castle under unusual circumstances: his ears are very large, and unlike normal baby mice, he’s born with his eyes wide open. His parents, Antoinette and Lester, ar...
Elephant
by Raymond Carver
The unnamed narrator of “Elephant” is supporting his whole family. His brother got laid off, and now he needs money or he’s going to lose his house. The narrator’s mother needs a check every month ...
A New England Nun
by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
“A New England Nun” tells the story of Louisa Ellis, a woman engaged to be married to Joe Dagget but who feels ambivalent because she has loved living alone for the last fifteen years. The story op...
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass is a combination of memoir, science writing, and Indigenous American philosophy and history. The book opens with a retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story, in which Skywom...
The Inconvenient Indian
by Thomas King
In the Prologue to The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King explains his use of fiction and nonfiction to tell the history of relations between Native Americans and white settlers in North America. He ...
Garbology
by Edward Humes
The book begins with the image of the Gastons, a couple of hoarders on the South Side of Chicago who, in 2010, had to be literally rescued from their home because of all the trash in it. Though the...
A Sentimental Journey
by Laurence Sterne
An English priest named Yorick, deciding to travel to France, packs and sails for Calais. In Calais, a Franciscan monk begs Yorick for alms. Yorick cruelly rebuffs him. After the monk leaves, Yoric...
The Sorrow of War
by Bảo Ninh
In The Sorrow of War, a writer named Kien struggles to process his traumatic experience in the Vietnam War. A former soldier for the North Vietnamese Army, he has trouble finding happiness in postw...
Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein
In the distant future, humanity is united under the Terran Federation. In this society, the only way to earn franchise and full citizenship is through volunteering for “Federal Service” in the mili...
The Tale of Despereaux
by Kate DiCamillo
The mouse Despereaux is born in a castle under unusual circumstances: his ears are very large, and unlike normal baby mice, he’s born with his eyes wide open. His parents, Antoinette and Lester, ar...
Elephant
by Raymond Carver
The unnamed narrator of “Elephant” is supporting his whole family. His brother got laid off, and now he needs money or he’s going to lose his house. The narrator’s mother needs a check every month ...
A New England Nun
by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
“A New England Nun” tells the story of Louisa Ellis, a woman engaged to be married to Joe Dagget but who feels ambivalent because she has loved living alone for the last fifteen years. The story op...
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass is a combination of memoir, science writing, and Indigenous American philosophy and history. The book opens with a retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story, in which Skywom...
The Inconvenient Indian
by Thomas King
In the Prologue to The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King explains his use of fiction and nonfiction to tell the history of relations between Native Americans and white settlers in North America. He ...
Garbology
by Edward Humes
The book begins with the image of the Gastons, a couple of hoarders on the South Side of Chicago who, in 2010, had to be literally rescued from their home because of all the trash in it. Though the...
A Sentimental Journey
by Laurence Sterne
An English priest named Yorick, deciding to travel to France, packs and sails for Calais. In Calais, a Franciscan monk begs Yorick for alms. Yorick cruelly rebuffs him. After the monk leaves, Yoric...
The Sorrow of War
by Bảo Ninh
In The Sorrow of War, a writer named Kien struggles to process his traumatic experience in the Vietnam War. A former soldier for the North Vietnamese Army, he has trouble finding happiness in postw...
Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein
In the distant future, humanity is united under the Terran Federation. In this society, the only way to earn franchise and full citizenship is through volunteering for “Federal Service” in the mili...
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