Volume I: Isolation and Community

I’m alone in a crowd—e pluribus plures.
Far from a family I miss.
I’d almost say I’m lonely, but lonely
Is worse, I recall, than this.
--Geoffrey Brock, Bryant Park at Dusk

Preface

Authors whose works are discussed in this volume

Short fiction

Ray Bradbury, "Night Call, Collect"
Anton Chekov, "The Bet"
Julio Cortázar, "The Southern Thruway"
Ken Liu, "The Paper Menagerie"
Carmen Maria Machado, "Dream House as Choose your Own Adventure"
Oscar Wilde,
"The Happy Prince"
"The Selfish Giant"

Long Fiction

Octavia E. Butler,
Dawn
Kindred

Poetry

Emily Dickinson,
"Much Madness is divinest Sense"
"They shut me up in Prose"
"The Soul selects her own Society"
Langston Hughes,
"Let America Be America Again"
"Mother to Son"

Short film

Pierre Ieong, Belonging
David Gaddie, Beautiful Dreamer

Textual Comparison

"The Deluded Self": Machado's "Dream House as Choose your Own Adventure" and Sartre's No Exit
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