Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Abbey, Edward "Cactus Ed". Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner. Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. African American literature. Age of innocence, The, Edith Wharton. Agee, James. Albee, Edward. Alexie, Sherman. Algonquin Round Table. Algren, Nelson. All the king's men, Robert Penn Warren. Allen, Paula Gunn. Allison, Dorothy. Alvarez, Julia. Amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The, Michael Chabon. American pastoral, Philip Roth. American tragedy, An, Theodore Dreiser. Anaya, Rudolfo. Anderson, Maxwell. Anderson, Sherwood. Angelou, Maya. Angels in America, Tony Kushner. Antin, Mary. Ariel, Sylvia Plath. Armies of the night, The, Norman Mailer. Arnow, Harriette Simpson. Ashbery, John. Asian American literature. Asimov, Isaac. Atlas shrugged, Ayn Rand. Auster, Paul. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis. Baldwin, James. Bambara, Toni Cade. Banks, Russell. Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones). Barnes, Djuna. Barrett, Andrea. Barth, John. Barthelme, Donald. Beat Movement. Beattie, Ann. Bellow, Saul. Beloved, Toni Morrison. Berryman, John. Big sleep, The, Raymond Chandler. Bishop, Elizabeth. Black Arts Movement. Black Mountain Poets. Bless me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya. Blood meridian, Cormac McCarthy. Bluest eye, The, Toni Morrison. Bly, Robert. Bogan, Louise. Book-of-the-Month Club. Bowles, Paul. Boyle, Kay. Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Bradbury, Ray. Bread givers, Anzia Yezierska. Breath, eyes, memory, Edwidge Danticat. Bridge of San Luis Rey, The, Thornton Wilder. Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao, The, Junot Díaz. Brooks, Geraldine. Brooks, Gwendolyn. Buck, Pearl S. Burroughs, William S. Butler, Octavia E. Calisher, Hortense. Campbell, Bebe Moore. Cane, Jean Toomer. Cantos, The, Ezra Pound. Capote, Truman. Caputo, Philip. Caribbean American literature. Carruth, Hayden. Carver, Raymond. Catch-22, Joseph Heller. Catcher in the rye, The, J.D. Salinger. Cather, Willa. Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko. Chabon, Michael. Chandler, Raymond. Cheever, John. Chicago Renaissance. Cisneros, Sandra. City Lights Bookstore. Clampitt, Amy. Cliff, Michelle. Clifton, Lucille. Cofer, Judith Ortiz. Collins, Billy. Color purple, The, Alice Walker. Confederacy of dunces, A, John Kennedy Toole. Confessional poetry. Coover, Robert. Corrections, The, Jonathan Franzen. Corso, Gregory. Crane, Hart. Creative nonfiction. Creeley, Robert. Crucible, The, Arthur Miller. Cruz, Nilo. Crying of Lot 49, The, Thomas Pynchon. Cummings, E.E. Dance night, Dawn Powell. Danticat, Edwidge. Day of the locust, The, Nathanael West. Death in the family, A, James Agee. Death of a salesman, Arthur Miller. Deep Image Movement. DeLillo, Don. Díaz, Junot. Dick, Philip K. Dickey, James. Didion, Joan. Dillard, Annie. Dirty realism. Dispatches, Michael Herr. Doctorow, E.L. Doerr, Harriet. Dollmaker, The, Harriette Simpson Arnow. Doolittle, Hilda ("H.D."). Dos Passos, John. Doty, Mark. Doubt, John Patrick Shanley. Dove, Rita. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina García. Dreiser, Theodore. Duncan, Robert. Dylan, Bob --

v. 2. Egan, Jennifer. Eggers, Dave. Electric Kool-Aid acid test, The, Tom Wolfe. Eliot, T.S. Ellis, Bret Easton. Ellison, Ralph. Erdrich, Louise. Eugenides, Jeffrey. Euphoria, Lily King. Expressionism. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury. Fan fiction. Farrell, James T. Faulkner, William. Fauset, Jessie Redmon. Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson. Fences, August Wilson. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Ferré, Rosario. Ferris, Joshua. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk. Final payments, Mary Gordon. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Flanner, Janet. Foer, Jonathan Safran. Fools Crow, James Welch. Ford, Richard. Fowler, Karen Joy. Franzen, Jonathan. Frazier, Charles. Frost, Robert. Fugitive poets. Gaddis, William. Gaitskill, Mary. García, Cristina. Gass, William H. Gellhorn, Martha. Gentlemen prefer blondes, Anita Loos. Gilchrist, Ellen. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Ginsberg, Allen. Giovanni, Nikki. Girl, The, Meridel Le Sueur. Glasgow, Ellen. Glaspell, Susan. Glass, Julia. Glass menagerie, The, Tennessee Williams. Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet. Godwin, Gail. Gone with the wind, Margaret Mitchell. Gonzo journalism. Goodman, Allegra. Gordon, Mary. Graham, Jorie. Grapes of wrath, The, John Steinbeck. Graphic novel. Gravity's rainbow, Thomas Pynchon. Great Gatsby, The, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Grey, Zane. Groff, Lauren. Group, The, Mary McCarthy. Group theatre. Guare, John. Hammett, Dashiell. Hansberry, Lorraine. Hard-boiled detective fiction. Harjo, Joy. Harlem Renaissance. Harrison, Jim. Hass, Robert. Hawkes, John. Hayden, Robert. Hazzard, Shirley. Heart is a lonely hunter, The, Carson McCullers. Heartbreaking work of staggering genius, A, Dave Eggers. Heidi chronicles, The, Wendy Wasserstein. Heinlein, Robert A. Heller, Joseph. Hellman, Lillian. Hemingway, Ernest. Henley, Beth. Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herr, Michael. Hersey, John. Herzog, Saul Bellow. Highsmith, Patricia. Hijuelos, Oscar. Himes, Chester. Hiroshima, John Hersey. Hogan, Linda. House made of dawn, N. Scott Momaday. House on Mango Street, The, Sandra Cisneros. How I learned to drive, Paula Vogel. How the García Girls lost their accents, Julia Alvarez. "Howl," Allen Ginsberg. Hughes, Langston. Hurlyburly, David Rabe. Hurston, Zora Neale. Hwang, David Henry. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov. I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou. Ignatow, David. Imagism. In America, Susan Sontag. In cold blood, Truman Capote. Invisible man, Ralph Ellison. Irving, John. Jackson, Laura Riding. Jackson, Shirley. Jarrell, Randall. Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee. Jeffers, Robinson. Jen, Gish. Jewish American literature. Jin, Ha. Johnson, Charles. Johnson, Diane. Johnson, Josephine. Jones, Edward P. Jones, Gayl. Jones, James. Joy Luck Club, The, Amy Tan. Jungle, The, Upton Sinclair. Kennedy, Adrienne Kennedy, William. Kerouac, Jack. Kesey, Ken. Kincaid, Jamaica. King, Lily. King, Stephen. Kingsolver, Barbara. Kingston, Maxine Hong. Kinnell, Galway. Kmart realism. Knowles, John. Komunyakaa, Yusef. Kopit, Arthur. Kosinski, Jerzy. Kumin, Maxine. Kunitz, Stanley. Kushner, Tony --

v. 3. Lahiri, Jhumpa. Language poetry. Larsen, Nella. Latinx literature. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Sueur, Meridel. Lee, Chang-rae. Lee, Harper. Lee, Li-Young. Left hand of darkness, The, Ursula K. Le Guin. Levertov, Denise. Levine, Philip. Lewis, Sinclair. Life studies, Robert Lowell. Little foxes, The, Lillian Hellman. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov. London, Jack. Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven, The, Sherman Alexie. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry. Long day's journey into night, Eugene O'Neill. Look homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe. Loos, Anita. Lorde, Audre. Lost generation. Love medicine, Louise Erdrich. Lowell, Amy. Lowell, Robert. Loy, Mina. M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang. Machinal, Sophie Treadwell. MacLeish, Archibald. Magnificent Ambersons, The, Booth Tarkington. Mailer, Norman. Malamud, Bernard. Maltese falcon, The, Dashiell Hammett. Mamet, David. Man in the gray flannel suit, The, Sloan Wilson. Manhattan transfer, John Dos Passos. March, Geraldine Brooks. Marshall, Paule. Martin, Valerie. Mason, Bobbie Ann. Masses, The. Matthiessen, Peter. Maus, Art Spiegelman. McBride, James. McCarthy, Cormac. McCarthy, Mary. McCullers, Carson. McDermott, Alice. McGuane, Thomas. McKay, Claude. McMillan, Terry. McMurtry, Larry. McPhee, John. Mencken, H.L. Merrill, James. Merwin, W.S. Metafiction. Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Miller, Arthur. Millhauser, Steven. Minimalism. Modernism. Momaday, N. Scott. Moore, Lorrie. Moore, Marianne. Morris, Wright. Morrison, Toni. Mosley, Walter. Mukherjee, Bharati. My Ántonia, Willa Cather. Nabokov, Vladimir. Namesake, The, Jhumpa Lahiri. Native American literature. Native son, Richard Wright. Natural, The, Bernard Malamud. Naylor, Gloria. Nemerov, Howard. New journalism. New sincerity. New York School of Poetry. New Yorker style. Ng, Celeste. Nightwood, Djuna Barnes. Nonfiction novel. Norman, Marsha. Now in November, Josephine W. Johnson. Oates, Joyce Carol. Objectivist poets. O'Brien, Tim. O'Connor, Flannery. Odets, Clifford. O'Hara, Frank. O'Hara, John. Olds, Sharon. Oliver, Mary. Olsen, Tillie. Olson, Charles. On the road, Jack Kerouac. O'Neill, Eugene. Ortiz, Simon. Our town, Thornton Wilder. Packer, ZZ. Palahniuk, Chuck. Paley, Grace. Parker, Dorothy. Parks, Suzan-Lori. Passing, Nella Larsen. Patchett, Ann. Percy, Walker. Petry, Ann. Phillips, Jayne Anne. Plath, Sylvia. Play it as it lays, Joan Didion. Plum bun, Jessie Redmon Fauset. Poetry : a magazine of verse. Porter, Katherine Anne. Post-World War II American Theater. Postmodernism. Pound, Ezra. Powell, Dawn. Powers, J.F. Powers, Kevin. Powers, Richard. Praisesong for the widow, Paule Marshall. Price, Reynolds. Primitivism. Process, Kay Boyle. Program era. Projective verse. Proletarian novel. Provincetown Players. Pulp fiction. Purdy, James. Pynchon, Thomas --

v. 4. Rabbit tetralogy, John Updike. Rabe, David. Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow. Raisin in the sun, A, Lorraine Hansberry. Rand, Ayn. Rankine, Claudia. Ransom, John Crowe. Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Reed, Ishmael. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates. Rexroth, Kenneth. Rice, Elmer. Rich, Adrienne. Roberts, Elizabeth Madox. Robinson, E.A. Robinson, Marilynne. Roethke, Theodore. Roth, Henry. Roth, Philip. Rukeyser, Muriel. Russell, Karen. Russo, Richard. Salinger, J.D. San Francisco Renaissance. Sandburg, Carl. Sarton, May. Saunders, George. Schwartz, Delmore. Scott, Evelyn. Separate peace, A, John Knowles. Settle, Mary Lee. Sexton, Anne. Shange, Ntozake. Shanley, John Patrick. Shepard, Sam. Silko, Leslie Marmon. Simic, Charles. Sinclair, Upton. Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Slam poetry. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Smart Set. Smiley, Jane. Snyder, Gary. Social protest novel. Sontag, Susan. Sot-weed factor, The, John Barth. Soto, Gary. Sound and the fury, The, William Faulkner. Southern Agrarians. Southern Gothic. Southern Renascence. Spencer, Elizabeth. Spiegelman, Art. Stafford, Jean. Stafford, William. Stegner, Wallace. Stein, Gertrude. Steinbeck, John. Stevens, Wallace. Stone, Robert. Strand, Mark. Stranger in a strange land, Robert A. Heinlein. Studs Lonigan : a trilogy, James T. Farrell. Styron, William. Sun slso tises, The, Ernest Hemingway. Swenson, May. Tan, Amy. Tarkington, Booth. Tartt, Donna. Taylor, Peter. Theatre of the absurd. Their eyes were watching God, Zora Neale Hurston. Them, Joyce Carol Oates. Things they carried, The, Tim O'Brien. This side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Thompson, Hunter S. Three lives, Gertrude Stein. To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee. Toole, John Kennedy. Toomer, Jean. Transgressive fiction. Treadwell, Sophie. Treuer, David. Trifles, Susan Glaspell. True west, Sam Shepard. Tuck, Lily. Tyler, Anne. Typical American, Gish Jen. Updike, John. Visit from the Goon Squad, A, Jennifer Egan. Vogel, Paula. Vollmann, William T. Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Walker, Alice. Wallace, David Foster. Wapshot chronicle, The, John Cheever. Ward, Jesmyn. Warren, Robert Penn. Wasserstein, Wendy. Waste land, The, T.S. Eliot. Welch, James. Welty, Eudora. West, Nathanael. Wharton, Edith. White noise, Don DeLillo. Whitehead, Colson. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee. Wideman, John Edgar. Wilbur, Richard. Wilder, Thornton. Williams, C.K. Williams, Tennessee. Williams, William Carlos. Wilson, August. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson. Wise blood, Flannery O'Connor. Wolfe, Thomas. Wolfe, Tom. Wolff, Tobias. Woman warrior, The, Maxine Hong Kingston. Wright, Charles. Wright, James. Wright, Richard. Yates, Richard. Yellow birds, The, Kevin Powers. Yezierska, Anzia. Yoknapatawpha County. You can't go home again, Thomas Wolfe. Zitkála-Šá (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin). Zukofsky, Louis.

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