Works Cited/Mentioned/Inferred
Cormac McCarthy says that books are made out of books. For good or for ill (and McCarthy frames his statement as an "ugly fact"), that's probably true. So here are some books and movies that helped make Normal School. You should probably maybe read/see all of them.
- Abbott, Megan. Dare Me. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2013.
- Abbott, Megan. The End of Everything. New York: Reagan Arthur Books, 2011.
- Abbott, Megan. The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
- Auerbach, Erich, and Willard R. Trask. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
- Bain, Ken. What the Best College Teachers Do. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004.
- Barker, Pat. The Eye in the Door. New York: Viking, 1993.
- Barker, Pat. The Ghost Road. New York: Viking, 1995.
- Barker, Pat. Regeneration. New York: Viking, 1991.
- Beniof, D and Weiss, D. Game of Thrones (TV Series 2011-2019)
- Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968.
- Bourjaily, Vance. Now Playing at Canterbury. New York: Dial Press, 1975.
- Burke, Kenneth. A Rhetoric of Motives. Berkley: University of California Press, 1969.
- Burroway, Janet, and Elizabeth Stuckey-French. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.
- Cha, Steph. Dead Soon Enough. New York: Minotaur Books, 2015.
- Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Sharer and Other Stories. New York: Norton Critical Editions, 2015.
- Egan, Jennifer. A Visit from the Goon Squad. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 2004.
- French, Tana. The Trespasser. New York: Viking, 2016.
- Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.
- Gibbons, Stella. Cold Comfort Farm. London: Penguin, 1944.
- Goetzmann, William H. Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism. Basic Books, 2009.
- Hand, Elizabeth. Available Dark. New York: St Martin's Press, 2013.
- Hand, Elizabeth. Generation Loss: A Novel. Orlando: Harcourt, 2008.
- Hand, Elizabeth. Hard Light. New York: St Martin’s Press, 2016.
- Hesiod. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Translated by Hugh G, Evelyn-White. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914.
- Hollis, Leah P. Bully in the Ivory Tower: How Aggression & Incivility Erode American Higher Education. Wilmington: L.P. Hollis, 2012.
- Hynes, James. The Kings of Infinite Space. New York: Picador, 2004.
- Hynes, James. The Lecturer's Tale. New York: Picador, 2001.
- Hynes, James. Publish and Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror. New York: Picador, 1997.
- Kazan, Elia. A Streetcar Named Desire. Dist. United Artists, 1951.
- Kleon, Austin. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. New York, NY: Workman Pub., Co, 2012.
- Heat-Moon, William L. Prairyerth: (a Deep Map). Boston: Mariner Books, 1999.
- Lester, Jaime. Workplace Bullying in Higher Education. New York: Routledge, 2012.
- Locke, Attica. Black Water Rising. New York: Harper Collins, 2009.
- Lovecraft, H.P. The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Everett, PA: Visionary Publishing, 1936.
- Martin, George R. R. A Game of Thrones. New York: Bantam, 1996.
- Martin, George R. R. A Clash of Kings. New York: Bantam, 1999.
- Martin, George R. R. A Storm of Swords. New York: Bantam, 2000.
- Martin, George R. R. A Feast for Crows. New York: Bantam, 2005.
- Martin, George R. R. A Dance with Dragons. New York: Bantam, 2011.
- McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Vintage, 2006.
- Melville, Herman. Bartleby, the Scrivener. Hoboken, NJ: Melville House Pub, 2004.
- Morris, Paul J. III. Learning How to Become a Man in America.
- Nolan, Christopher. The Dark Knight. Burbank, Ca: Warner Bros, 2008.
- O'Connor, Flannery. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.
- Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. New York: Putnam, 1969.
- Richardson, Robert. First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson and the Creative Process. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015.
- Scorcese, Martin. Taxi Driver. Columbia, 1976.
- See, Carolyn. Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers. New York: Random House, 2003.
- Showalter, Elaine. Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
- Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
- Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
- Swinburne, A. C. "The Leper." A Library of Poetical Literature in Thirty-Two Volumes. London: P. F. Collier and Son, 1902.
- Trethewey, Natasha. Native Guard. Boston: Mariner Books, 2007.
- Turchi, Peter. Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2008.
- Twale, Darla J, and Barbara M. De Luca. Faculty Incivility: The Rise of the Academic Bully Culture and What to Do About It. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
- White, Lowell Mick. Professed: A Novel of Higher Education. Austin: Buffalo Times Press, 2016.
- Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: New Directions, 1980.
- Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. New York: FSG, 1987.
Note: A couple of Ayn Rand books get mentioned in Normal School, too, but I'm leaving them off this list. Because, you know.