Below you will find a list of some of the classic literature we will be reading this summer. However, while we encourage parents to take a look, we hope our students don't feel they need to prepare for camp. In fact, we would like them to arrive with a fresh set of eyes, ready to open themselves to sudden and spontaneous ideas.

• Shanameh: The Persian Book of Kings
• William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
• Primo Levi: The Periodic Table
• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
• Joan Didion: “On Self-Respect”
• Plato’s Apology
• Emerson: “Nature”
• Homer: “Odyssey”
• João Guimarães Rosa: “The Third Bank of the River”
• James Agee: “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”
• Langston Hughes: “When Will America Be American Again”
• John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
• Dante: “Divine Comedy: Cantos I-III"
• Freud: “Creative Writers and Daydreaming”
• Jung: “The Importance of   Dreams” 
• Umberto Eco: “The City of Robots”
• Lewis Carroll: “Alice in Wonderland”
• W.B. Yeats: “Faery Song”
• Wallace Stegner: “The Sense of Place”
• Robert Frost: “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “The Ovenbird”
• Alice Munro: “The Moons of Jupiter”
• David Sedaris: “A Shiner Like a Diamond”
• John Kennedy Toole: “A Confederacy of Dunces”
• Ray Bradbury:  “Invisible Boy”

If you'd like to take a look at our reading list from last year, just go here.

In addition to our regular curriculum, all campers will also be able to take one literature elective per week, participating in four focused seminars on a specific topic of interest. Below is a small sample of possible offerings.
Electives still in formation to include:

• A Look at Screenwriting
• The Russians
• American Revolutionary Pamphleteers
• Indie Film
• Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
• Performance Art
• Marxism and Literature
• Contemporary American Poetry
• Short Stories of Franz Kafka
• The American Dream
• Epics
• Ancient Greek Comedy
• Native American Literature