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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Well, Geek Love would go on a secondary list. It would be one of many choices. Because if I didn't do it that way, I'm not sure I could get away with it.
Good point. This is why I am not a teacher.
As hokey as a suggestion this might be, maybe one of the early Stephan King books?
Jilli, what Carter short story would you teach if you were me? I love her Bluebeard, but it's not quite right. I also love Heroes and Villains....
Ack! I just saw the Youtube video of the Japanese train loaders during rush hour. Is this a hoax? Because OMGWTFclaustrophobia.
I love Beloved, but I can understand why someone wouldn't. It's got some parts that are just hard. And it's not easy to teach, either. What about the one about Milkman? What's it called? Song of Solomon.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a good one. It'd teach well, too.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a good one. It'd teach well, too.It does teach very well, especially to seniors. And yes, I think Song of Solomon is amazing, too.
Jilli, what Carter short story would you teach if you were me?
I can't remember the title off the top of my head, but it's something like The Lady at the House of Love. I'll look through my Carter collection (after I'm done watching SPN).
It also occurs to me I have no African-American writers.
hey, how about Tyler Perry? Just kidding.
The Master and Margarita? The Island of Dr. Moreau? The Confidence Man? (I think The Confidence Man should be taught more often, and certainly dealing a man who may or may not be the devil puts it into the realm of magical realism.
You could do the grotesque/there are things man was not meant to know section with short stories. Welty plus Poe, Bradbury, Bierce, and the jittery extreme of Lovecraft. MFK Fisher's The Lost, the Strayed, the Stolen. You could even throw in some classic SF movies, in which science is evil and the good guy gets the girl.
Would one of August Wilson's plays work? They're often about love, in various guises.
Kat, the Angela Carter stories I was thinking of were "The Lady in the House of Love" and "Wolf-Alice".
Kristin, if my student's account of the subways in Tokyo is any indication, that's no hoax.
He HATED taking the trains.
Ooh, for grotesque you could teach Anne Sexton's Transformations. I read that volume over and over again when I was a girl.