I’ve been thinking lately about how little I know about the literature of my own country. Of course I read Huckleberry Finn, Billy Budd, and a few others in high school, and I took a seminar on Faulkner in college, but in recent years I have focused almost exclusively on Brit lit. So I’ve decided to spend some time with American literature this year. With the help of a colleague who specialized in that area, I compiled a (no doubt over-ambitious) reading list.
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