What's being read in college lit courses today?

[pscot]

For a course in the American novel, I recall reading Cummings, Dreiser, DosPassos, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck. All had been written in the preceding 40 years. Their energy sprang from the experience of war, depression and class struggle. That was a while ago. What are todays well read college students being exposed to?

[Hissyspit]

1. "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

but it's a digital arts class.

And, damn, getting them to read the whole (short) thing is like pulling teeth.

[FSogol]

2. No idea, but I'd recommend the following:

Colson Whitehead ("Apex Hides the Hurt"), Sherman Alexie (Anything by him), Saul Bellow ("Henderson the Rain King"), Joshua Ferris (The Unnamed" and "Then We Came to the End"), Michael Chabon (The Yiddish Policeman's Union"), and Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close).

[Drale]

3. Well I took a college lit course last semester

and we red a bunch of Pilgrim stuff (can't remember exactly who) some Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson and Melville.

[pscot]

4. Actually, I think the Pilgrims

probably would have burned those guys at the stake for heresy.