Alan Passman's English 1 @ LBCC
Here you'll find a list of our class readings for this semester:
Weekly Readings - PDFs:
Stephen King
Brent Staples
Maya Angelou
Sherman Alexie
David Sedaris
Junot Diaz
Danielle Evans
Mindy Kaling
- Critical Readings - PDFs

Readings - External Links:
Weekly, cont. –
David Foster Wallace – “This is Water”
Frederick Douglass – “Learning to Read and Write”
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan – “Why Vampires Never Die”
Plato - "The Allegory of the Cave"
Perks… Resources –
Bruce Handy – “Q&A: Perks of Being a Wallflower’s Stephen Chbosky on Emma Watson’s Casting, High School Yearning, and ‘Heroes’”
Gustavo Arellano – “Their Charming Man”
Guy Raz – “‘Smells like Teen Spirit’”
Stephen Thompson – “‘Smells like Teen Spirit,’ Still Strange and Beautiful”
Jacob Ganz – “We've Never Stopped Thinking about Kurt Cobain”


