Book Study Resources
Emilie White, once an Instructor of Writing and Literature at Warren Wilson College and a parishioner at All Souls Cathedral, has written in-depth commentary and discussion and reflection questions for literary works, including short stories, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Click on the links below to download pdf files. Additions will be made as they become available.
Click here for James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”
Click here for Anton Chekov’s “The Lady with the Dog”; and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”
Click here for J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Click here for Andre Dubus’ ”A Father’s Story
Click here for Richard Ford’s “Communist”
Click here for E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India
Click here for E.M. Forster’s Howards End
Click here for E. M. Forster’s Maurice
Click here for Nora Gallagher’s Things Seen and Unseen
Click here for Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”; and Anne Beattie’s “Snow”
Click here for Marjorie Kemper’s “God’s Goodness” from Faith Stories and the Book of Job
Click here for Thomas Merton’s New Seeds of Contemplation
Click here for Thomas Merton’s Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Click here for Toni Morrison’s Sula
Click here for Alice Munro’s “Friend of My Youth”
Click here for Alice Munro’s “Pictures of the Ice”; and John Updike’s “Made in Heaven”
Click here for Alice Munro’s “Royal Beatings”
Click here for Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Click here for Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory
Click here for Flannery O’Connor’s “Parker’s Back”
Click here for Flannery O’Connor’s “Greenleaf” and “Revelation”
Click here for Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Click here for Cynthia Ozick’s “Rosa”; and Philip Roth’s “Defender of the Faith”
Click here for Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead
Click here for Marilynne Robinson’s Home
Click here for Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping
Click here for Philip Roth’s “The Conversion of the Jews”
Click here for Philip Roth’s Everyman
Click here for Zadie Smith’s “On Beauty”
Click here to view and download book study resources listed by genre.
