True Grit

Photo from interviews with Dolly Parton for the podcast Dolly Parton’s America.

Further Studies

• “The Problem With Memoirs” by Neil Genzlinger, the New York Times: 28 January, 2011

• “But Enough About Me” by Daniel Mendelsohn, the New Yorker: 18 January, 2010

Topics

Educated by Tara Westover

• “Educated is even better than you’ve heard” by Bill Gates, GatesNotes: 3 December, 2018
  

Bill Gates talks with author Tara Westover about her book "Educated"

Texts

Memoir and autobiography

• Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan van Ness

• Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

• The Man Who Listens to Horses by Monty Roberts

• Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

• Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama, Times Books/Random House, 1995

• Conundrum by Jan Morris, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Spiegel & Grau, 2015

• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, Scribner, 1996

• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson, Grove Press, 2012

• Becoming by Michelle Obama, Viking, 13 Nov. 2018

• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by  Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb W&N, 9 Oct. 2014

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Virago, 2005

• Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Grove Atlantic, 2018

• Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz, Grand Central Publishing, 2018

• Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams, Dey Street Books, 2017

  
  Autofiction

• How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti

• 10:04 by Ben Lerner

• Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee, the Text Publishing Company, 2007

• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

• I Love Dick by Chris Kraus (3rd person narrator)

  Faction

• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 

• The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer, 1968

• The Wall (1950) and Hiroshima (1946) by John Richard Hersey

• Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976) by Alex Haley

• The Valachi Papers (1969), Underboss (1997), and Serpico (1972) by Peter Maas

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Penguin Classics, June 1, 1999

Documentaries

• Shut Up and Sing dir. Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck (2006)

• Capturing the Friedmans dir. Andrew Jarecki (2003)

Podcasts

• “I Became a Person of Suspicion” The Daily, 10 April 2020

• Conversations with People who Hate Me

• The Heart: “No” (4 episodes from 10 May, 24 May, 7 June, and 14 June, respectively)

• The Uterus and the Duderus

Grammar and Vocab