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 and various other works that we talked about in the classes that made Answers Without Questions. You should probably maybe read/see all of them....

  • Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire. Touchstone, 1990.
  • Abbott, Megan. Dare Me. Media tie-in Edition, Back Bay Books, 2019.
  • ---. Give Me Your Hand. Reprint edition, Back Bay Books, 2019.
  • ---. The Turnout. Large type / Large print edition, Random House Large Print, 2021.
  • Addonizio, Kim. Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within. Original edition, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
  • Alison, Jane. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative. Catapult, 2019.
  • Anders, Charlie Jane. Never Say You Can’t Survive. Tordotcom, 2021.
  • Aragon, Cecilia, et al. Writers in the Secret Garden: Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring. Illustrated edition, The MIT Press, 2019.
  • Association, Horror Writers. On Writing Horror: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association. Edited by Mort Castle, 2nd edition, Writer’s Digest Books, 2006.
  • Bell, James Scott. The Last Fifty Pages: The Art and Craft of Unforgettable Endings. Compendium Press, 2019.
  • Brewer, Robert Lee, editor. Guide to Literary Agents 30th Edition: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published. 30th edition, Writer’s Digest Books, 2021.
  • Brown, Jericho. The Tradition. Later Printing edition, Copper Canyon Press, 2019.
  • Burns, Ken, and Lynn Novick. Hemingway: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. PBS (Direct), 2021.
  • Butler, Robert Olen. From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction. Edited by Janet Burroway, Reprint edition, Grove Press, 2006.
  • Cantú, Norma Elia. Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood En La Frontera, Updated Edition. Updated ed. edition, University of New Mexico Press, 2015.
  • Caro, Robert A. The Path to Power. Vintage, 1990.
  • ---. Working. Knopf, 2019.
  • Casares, Oscar. Brownsville: Stories. 1st edition, Back Bay Books, 2003.
  • Castro, Joy. Flight Risk. Lake Union Publishing, 2021.
  • Chávez, Denise. The Last of the Menu Girls. Reprint edition, Vintage, 2004.
  • ---. Loving Pedro Infante. Washington Square Press, 2002.
  • Chavez, Felicia Rose. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom. Haymarket Books, 2021.
  • Clancy, Tom. The Hunt for Red October. Reprint edition, Berkley, 2010.
  • Cleave, Ryan Van. Memoir Writing For Dummies. 1st edition, For Dummies, 2013.
  • Coen, Joel. The Big Lebowski. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, 2009.
  • Coppola, Francis Ford. The Godfather Notebook. Reprint edition, Regan Arts., 2016.
  • Crook, Elizabeth. The Which Way Tree. 2019.
  • Dickey, James. Deliverance. Reprint edition, Delta, 1994.
  • Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives: The Complete Fourth Season. MILLENIUM MEDIA SEVICES, 2010.
  • Dobie, J. Frank. Tales of Old-Time Texas. Reprint edition, University of Texas Press, 1984.
  • Dora, Liza. Is Lena Pretty? Edited by Jolie Gray, Illustrated edition, Liza Dora, 2015.
  • Dreyer, Benjamin. Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style. Reprint edition, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2020.
  • Eastwood, Clint. Fistful of Dollars. Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 2008.
  • Ellis, Sherry. Now Write!: Fiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers. Later Printing Edition, TarcherPerigee, 2006.
  • Everett, Percival. Damned If I Do: Stories. First Paperback Edition, Graywolf Press, 2004.
  • ---. Half an Inch of Water: Stories. 1st Edition, Graywolf Press, 2015.
  • Everett, Percival, and Sherman Alexie. Watershed. 2nd edition, Beacon Press, 2003.
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Independently published, 2021.
  • Flaherty, Alice. The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
  • Fontenot, Rebecca. No Such Thing as Feeling Young. Independently published, 2021.
  • Ford, John, et al. The Searchers. 2019.
  • Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1954.
  • French, Tana. The Searcher. 2020.
  • ---. The Witch Elm. Reprint edition, Penguin Books, 2019.
  • Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying. Vintage, 1994.
  • ---. A Long Day in November. Reissue edition, Lizzie Skurnick Books, 2013.
  • ---. Bloodline. W W Norton & Co Inc, 1976.
  • Gardner, John. The Art of Fiction. New York: Knopf, 1984.
  • ---.  On Becoming a Novelist. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
  • Gay, Roxane. Ayiti. Later Printing edition, Grove Press, 2018.
  • ---. “Not Here to Make Friends.” BuzzFeed, https://www.buzzfeed.com/roxanegay/not-here-to-make-friends-unlikable. Accessed 13 Nov. 2021.
  • Givhan, Jennifer. Trinity Sight. 2019.
  • Glad He’s Dead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj98pr2DbSo.
  • Goetzmann, William H. Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1979.
  • Goetzmann, William H., and William N. Goetzmann. The West of the Imagination. Second edition, University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
  • Gran, Sara. Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway. Reprint edition, Mariner Books, 2014.
  • ---. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead. Reprint edition, Mariner Books, 2012.
  • ---. Come Closer. Soho Press, 2011.
  • ---. The Infinite Blacktop. Reprint edition, Washington Square Press, 2019.
  • Granados, Christine. Brides and Sinners in El Chuco: Short Stories. University of Arizona Press, 2006.
  • ---. Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children. First Edition, University of New Mexico Press, 2017.
  • Hall-Wilson, Lisa. Method Acting For Writers: Learn Deep Point Of View Using Emotional Layers. Lisa Hall-Wilson, 2018.
  • Hand, Elizabeth. Generation Loss. Small Beer Press, 2020.
  • ---. The Book of Lamps and Banners. Mulholland Books, 2020.
  • Harrison, Jim. The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems. Reprint edition, Copper Canyon Press, 2000.
  • ---. The Woman Lit by Fireflies. Reprint edition, Grove Press, 2008.
  • Hawks, Howard. His Girl Friday The Criterion Collection. Criterion Collection, 2017.
  • Hearon, Shelby. A Prince of a Fellow. Doubleday, 1978.
  • Heinemann, Larry. Paco’s Story. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.
  • Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Scribner, 1995.
  • ---. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition. The Finca Vigia Edition, Scribner, 1998.
  • ---. The Sun Also Rises: The Hemingway Library Edition. Hemingway Library ed. edition, Scribner, 2016.
  • Hills, L. Rust. Writing in General and the Short Story in Particular. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.    
  • Hugo, Richard. The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing. Reissue edition, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
  • Hynes, James. Kings of Infinite Space. First edition, Picador, 2005.
  • Iglesias, Gabino. Coyote Songs. Broken River Books, 2018.
  • Irving, John. The Cider House Rules. Later Printing edition, Ballantine Books, 1997.
  • Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne. The Age of Phillis. Wesleyan University Press, 2022.
  • ---. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah’s Book Club Novel. 1st Edition, Harper, 2021.
  • Jemisin, N. K. The Fifth Season. Orbit, 2015.
  • ---. The Obelisk Gate. Reprint edition, Orbit, 2016.
  • ---. The Stone Sky. Reprint edition, Orbit, 2017.
  • Johnson, Denis. Jesus’ Son. Methuen Pub Ltd, 2004.
  • Johnston, Antony. The Organised Writer: How to Stay on Top of All Your Projects and Never Miss a Deadline. Bloomsbury Yearbooks, 2020.
  • Jones, Amy, editor. Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market 40th Edition: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published. 40th edition, Writer’s Digest Books, 2021
  • Judge, Mike, et al. Office space. 2019.
  • King, Stephen. It. Media Tie-In edition, Scribner, 2019.
  • ---. On Writing. New York: Scribner, 2010.
  • Kleon, Austin. Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad. Illustrated edition, Workman Publishing Company, 2019.
  • ---. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered. Illustrated edition, Workman Publishing, 2014.
  • ---. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. 1st edition, Workman Publishing, 2012.
  • Kohn, Alfie. Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning. Edited by Susan D. Blum, 1st edition, West Virginia University Press, 2020.
  • Kurosawa, Akira, et al. Yojimbo. Criterion Collection, 2007.
  • Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. First Printing Thus edition, Anchor, 1995.
  • Leonard, Elmore. Rum Punch. Reprint edition, William Morrow Paperbacks, 2011.
  • Locke, Attica. Black Water Rising. Harper Perennial ed. edition, Amistad, 2010.
  • ---. Bluebird, Bluebird. Reprint edition, Mulholland Books, 2018.
  • ---. Heaven, My Home. Mulholland Books, 2020.
  • Madis, McKenna. Letters: I’ll Never Send. Independently published, 2021.
  • Martin, George R. R. A Game of Thrones. New York: Bantam, 1996.
  • ---. A Clash of Kings. New York: Bantam, 1999.
  • ---. A Storm of Swords. New York: Bantam, 2000.
  • ---. A Feast for Crows. New York: Bantam, 2005.
  • ---. A Dance with Dragons. New York: Bantam, 2011
  • Martin, Tiffany Yates. Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing. E3 Press, 2020.
  • Matejka, Adrian. Somebody Else Sold the World. Penguin Books, 2021.
  • ---. The Big Smoke. 1st edition, Penguin Books, 2013.
  • Matthews, Aaron, et al. The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien. 2020.
  • McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992.
  • ---. The Road. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006.
  • McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010.
  • ---. The Last Picture Show. Reprint edition, Liveright, 2018.
  • Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick, or The Whale. Penguin Classics, Paperback, 2002.
  • Michener, James A. Hawaii. Reprint edition, Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2002.
  • Nash, Jennie. Blueprint for a Book: Build Your Novel from the Inside Out. Tree Farm Books, 2021.
  • Oates, Joyce Carol. The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror. Reprint edition, Mysterious Press, 2017.
  • ---. Zombie. Illustrated edition, Ecco, 2009.
  • O’Connor, Flannery. The Complete Stories. First edition, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.
  • ---. Mystery and Manners. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.
  • Oliver, Mary. A Poetry Handbook. First edition, Mariner Books, 1994.
  • Pena, Daniel. Bang. Arte Publico Press, 2018.
  • Percy, Benjamin. Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction. Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2016.
  • Polanski, Roman, et al. Chinatown: [DVD][videorecording. 2017.
  • Pryor, Richard. Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2006.
  • Pushkin, Alexander. Eugene Onegin. Translated by Stanley Mitchell, 1st edition, Penguin Classics, 2008.
  • Pushkin, Alexander, and John Bayley. Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings. Translated by Ronald Wilks, 1st edition, Penguin Classics, 1998.
  • Reeb, Annabeth. Howdy’s Adventures in Aggieland. Mascot Kids, 2021.
  • Reeves, Roger. King Me. Copper Canyon Press, 2013.
  • Rowell, Charles H. Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature, 1976-2000. St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
  • Salesses, Matthew. Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping. Catapult, 2021.
  • Saunders, George. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life. Random House, 2021.
  • Sayles, John, et al. Lone star. 2016.
  • See, Carolyn. Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers. New York: Random House, 2003.
  • Shelnutt, Eve. Writing: The Translation of Memory. New York: MacMillan,1990.
  • Shulman, Leigh. The Writer’s Roadmap: Paving the Way to Your Ideal Writing Life. Future Is Red, The, 2018.
  • Singleton, George. Pep Talks, Warnings & Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers / Wallace, Daniel, ; Illustrator. Writer’s Digest Books, 2008.
  • Smith, Patti. Just Kids. 1st edition, Ecco, 2010.
  • Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. August 1914. Translated by H. T. Willetts, Penguin Books, 1992.
  • Some Wayne State Professors Still Pushing to Teach Remotely – The Wayne Stater. https://thewaynestater.com/20647/news/some-wayne-state-professors-still-pushing-to-teach-remotely/#. Accessed 12 Nov. 2021.
  • Stevens, George, et al. Giant. 2020.
  • The Clash. London Calling. Epic, 2000.
  • The Sopranos - The Complete Series 2007. Warner Home Video, 2009.
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings. Illustrated edition, Mariner Books, 2012.
  • ---. The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings. Illustrated edition, Mariner Books, 2012.
  • ---. The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings. Illustrated edition, Mariner Books, 2012.
  • Tolstoy, Leo, and Orlando Figes. War and Peace. Translated by Anthony Briggs, Deluxe edition, Penguin Classics, 2006.
  • Toole, John Kennedy, and Walker Percy. A Confederacy of Dunces. 20th Anniversary ed. edition, Grove Weidenfeld, 1987.
  • Ueland, Brenda, and Andrei Codrescu. If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit. 2nd edition, Graywolf Press, 2007.
  • van der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Reprint edition, Penguin Publishing Group, 2015.
  • Various. The Wire: The Complete Series. HBO Studios, 2011.
  • Waggoner, Tim. Writing in the Dark. Illustrated edition, Guide Dog Books, 2020.
  • Walker, Rob. The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday. Illustrated edition, Knopf, 2019.
  • Welty, Eudora. One Writer's Beginnings. Boston: Faber & Faber, 1984
  • Wetmore, Elizabeth. Valentine. 2021.
  • White, Lowell Mick. Burnt House. Buffalo Times Press, 2018.
  • ---. Normal School. Buffalo Times Press, 2019.
  • ---. Professed: A Novel of Higher Education. Buffalo Times Press, 2016.
  • ---. That Demon Life. 1st edition, Gival Press, LLC, 2009.
  • ---. The Messes We Make of Our Lives: Stories. Buffalo Times Press, 2017.
  • Wilder, Billy. Ace in the Hole. Criterion Collection, 2018.
  • Willis, Bruce, et al. Last man standing. Warner Home Video, 2010.
  • Wolfe, Tom. RIGHT STUFF. Second Edition, Revised, Picador, 2008.
  • ---. The Bonfire of the Vanities. First edition, Picador, 2008.