Dec 25, 2009

Six Degrees of Separation | What Do I Read Next?

Guare's The House of Blue Leaves, his most well-known work before Six Degrees of Separation, contains the author's darkly humorous vision of modern America. This farce features a working-class Queens zookeeper who fails as a songwriter and takes out his frustration on his insane wife.

Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925) tells the story of a young man who, to win a society girl, takes on the persona of a well-bred young man. In his attempt to hide the...