September 30: Jill Bialosky, The End Is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother (Washington Square Press) Taught by Jill Bialosky and Philip Schultz
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October 7: Edward Hirsch, My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy (Knopf) Taught by Edward Hirsch and Philip Schultz
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October 14: Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight (Riverhead Books) Taught by Reneé Bibby
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October 21: Martin Espada, Floaters (W.W. Norton & Company) Taught by Lisa Bellamy
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October 28: Suleika Jaouad, The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life (Random House) Taught by Mark Peterson
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November 4: Jamaica Kincaid, At the Bottom of the River (Picador) Taught by Francesca Moroney
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November 11: Pushcart Prize 2025 (Pushcart Press) Taught by Marie Kilroy
Fiction: “Portrait of the technocrat as a Standard Man” by Shaan Aachdev and "The Zaminder’s Watch” by Nishanth Injam; Poetry: “Self-portrait as a Coriander Seed” by Abby E. Murray, “For Acie” by Kate Delay, “Preparing for Residential Placement for My Disabled Daughter” by Jennifer Franklin, “The End of Wildness” by Gail Griffin, and “Spangle” by John A. Nieves
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November 18: Peter Balakian, Ozone Journal (University of Chicago Press) Taught by Peter Balakian and Philip Schultz
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Suggested Reading List
Fiction: Javier Marías, The Infatuations; Paul Beatty, The Sellout; John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead; Jenny Erpenbeck, Go Went Gone; Mohsin Hamid, Exit West; Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black; Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel; Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies; Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous; Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening; Richard Powers, The Overstory; NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory; Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures (a memoir); Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth; Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope; Joy Williams, Concerning the Future of Souls
Poetry: Kevin Young, Brown; Nick Laird, Feel Free; Rodney Jones, Alabama; Michael Waters, Sinnerman; Leslie Sainz, Have You Been Long Enough at Table; Matthew Dickman, Husbandry: Poems; Rodney Jones, Alabama