2021 Year in Review

Publications

• 1 book: A Sea of Troubles, Rowman and Littlefield (co-written with my wonderful wife, Liz)
• 3 short stories: “Resurrection,” “Fall,” “Burn”
• 1 essay: “In Defense of Defending the Literary Canon”

Books Taught:

• Hamlet
• The Catcher in the Rye
• A Raisin in the Sun
• Poetry of Langston Hughes
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• The Woman Warrior
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold
• Medea
• The Metamorphosis
• Oedipus Rex
• Romeo and Juliet
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Night
• Farewell to Manzanar

Books Read or Re-read (a somewhat complete list, roughly in order):

• Anna Karenina (as you can see below, 2021 began and ended with Tolstoy)
• The Nickel Boys
• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
• Six Stories by Anton Chekhov
• Shakespeare and Trump (Jeffrey Wilson)
• The Prince
• Plutarch’s Lives
• Coriolanus
• Titus Andronicus
• Julius Caesar
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Shakespeare and Game of Thrones (Jeffrey Wilson)
• Richard II
• Henry IV 1
• Henry IV 2
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Henry V
• Falstaff (Harold Bloom)
• Henry VI 1
• Henry VI 2
• Henry VI 3
• Richard III
• The Aeneid
• Ovid’s Metamorphoses
• Heracles Mad
• Heracleidae
• Alcestis
• Augustine’s Confessions
• Beowulf (Seamus Heaney)
• The Mabinogion
• Dante’s Inferno
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Swann’s Way
• Ulysses (just “Ithaca” and “Penelope” on Bloomsday)
• The Castle
• Cat’s Cradle
• Breakfast of Champions
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
• The Sadness of Whirlwinds (Jim Peterson, Red Hen Press)
• Thus Spake Zarathustra
• War and Peace