Daughters of the Revolution (21 page)

SUGGESTED READING

Old School
by Tobias Wolff;
Testimony
by Anita Shreve;
Skippy Dies
by Paul Murray;
Prep
by Curtis Sittenfeld;
Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville;
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad;
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
by Susan Sontag;
The Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger.

Carolyn Cooke’s short-story collection,
The Bostons
, was a winner of the 2002–2004 PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship Award, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award and a
New York Times
Notable Book. Her fiction has appeared in
AGNI, The Paris Review
and
Ploughshares
, and in two volumes each of
Best American Short Stories
and
Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards
. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, she teaches in the MFA writing program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.