Course Readings
Fun Home
By Alison Bechdel
Understanding Comics
By Scott McCloud
"Advice to Youth" ~ Mark Twain
"Allegory of the Cave" ~ Plato
"Battle of the Ants" ~ Henry David Thoreau
"Black Men in Public Space" - Brent Staples
The Busy Trap
"Death of the Moth" ~ Virginia Woolf
Deindividuation
By David McRaney
Edgar Allan Poe - 3 Poems
"The Bells," "Annabel Lee" & "The Raven"
"Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns" ~ Molly Ivins
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
"Learning to Read and Write" - Frederick Douglass
Let America Be America Again
By Langston Hughes
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Man Who Wrote the Pledge of Allegiance
"On Writing" ~ Stephen King
Ordeal by Cheque
A story told completely in the form of personal checks. By Wuther Crue (1932)
"The Prince" ~ Machiavelli
"Salvation" - Langston Hughes
"Shooting an Elephant" - George Orwell
"Strangers" - Toni Morrison
"Working at Wendy's" - Joey Franklin
We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story
Who Shot Johnny?