I need to watch more TV and read less ... no wait, reverse that.

Sorry I didn't make it last night folks. I am having a sinus infection from hell. (and I was baking cupcakes for like 6 hours)

My list of texts I have read is embarassingly short. Or perhaps it is the department that should be embarrassed, since non-white texts are hideously under-represented and that's all I read apparently.

So here goes:

I can pick up the 20th Century stuff that wasn't taken, namely
Churchill, Cloud Nine
Larsen, Quicksand
and the poetry of Baraka and Jarrell

Also Matt, if you like I can take your
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
and Hemingway, Sun Also Rises

and now to admit why I probably didn't get the GTA:

Old English: none
Middle English: none
Renaissance: none (I think I've read like two Shakespeares in my life.)
Restoration: none

Romantics: I can do the Romantic poets. I took a class on that. So whatever anyone doesn't feel strongly about, I will take. The novels (and Hemans and Lamb and Arnold) I don't know about, but I'd be willing to learn in order to be able to actually participate in this group of well-read citizens.

Early Americans:
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Crane, Red Badge of Courage and Maggie
Gilman, "Yellow Wallpaper"
Jewett, "White Heron"
Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Chopin, Awakening
I haven't read The Conjure Woman but I would be willing to. I like Chesnutt. Same with Douglass's Narrative (I've read part but not all.)

20th Century:
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway and almost everything else
Yeats, random poems (especially "Second Coming" one of my all-time faves)
Churchill, Cloud Nine
Rushdie, Midnight's Children
DuBois, Souls of Black Folk
Larsen, Quicksand and Passing
Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby
Cather, My Antonia
Hemingway, Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms
Wright, Native Son
Williams, Streetcar Named Desire
Hwang, M. Butterfly
Morrison, Song of Solomon and a bunch of others
I think I could do the poetry of Pound, Frost, Stevens, and Williams if no one else wants to do it. Also Rich and Giovanni.

I'm sorry guys. Now you're all thinking "why do we want her in our group?" If there was African/Caribbean/American Cultures/anything else random, then I would be your girl. However, I am willing to learn anything new to add to the conversation.

So now that you know, just let me know which texts you want me to do.

Damn you, public school universities.

AH