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June 25
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby, Chapters 1-4. (1925)
July 30
Richard Feynman
“Surely, You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman?“
“A Map of the Cat?“
“O, Americano, Outra Vez!”
“Safecracker Meets Safecracker” (1985)
August 27
Petronius
Satyricon, Volumes 1 & 2. (early 1st century CE)
September 24
Hannah Arendt
The Human Condition, Prologue and Chapter 1. (1958)
October 29
Thomas Paine
Common Sense. (1776)
December 3
Marcel Proust
The Guermantes Way, Chapter 1, pp. 1-70. (1920)
January 28
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet. (1923)
February 25
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963)
Malcolm X
“The African Revolution and Its Impact on Afro-Americans” Harvard Law School Forum, December 16, 1964
March 25
Daphne du Maurier
“The Birds” (1952)
“The Old Man” (1952)
April 29
Robert Hayden
Middle Passage (1961)
Langston Hughes
Harlem (1951)
Maya Angelou
Still I Rise (1978)
Audre Lorde
Power (1978)
Lucille Clifton
homage to my hips (1980)
Rita Dove
After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed (1991)
May 27
William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 3 (1591)