the literary 27 club

The names of the writers who died are underlined.

Week 1: The New Woman

  1. The Romance of a Shop (1888) – Amy Levy
  2. The Well of Loneliness (1928) – Radclyffe Hall

Week 2: American Girls

  1. Chocolates for Breakfast (1956) – Pamela Moore
  2. The Bell Jar (1963) – Sylvia Plath

Week 3: Trauma and Modernity in Europe

  1. Poems of Georg Trakl
  2. The Poems of Antonia Pozzi (2011) – Antonia Pozzi, trans. Peter Robinson
  3. Poems Of Fernando Pessoa (1930) – Fernando Pessoa, trans. Edwin Honig and Susan Brown
  4. Seven Songs of Decline & other poems (2020) – Mário de Sá-Carneiro, trans. Costa and Amaral

Week 4: American Boys

  1. The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990 (1999) – Joe Bolton
  2. Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977) – Charles Bukowski
  3. The Collected Breece D’J Pancake (1983) – Breece D’J Pancake

Week 5: Modern Chinese Poets

  1. Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi (2015) – Hai Zi, trans. Ye Chun
  2. Sidetracks (2024) – Bei Dao, trans. Jeffrey Yang

Week 6: The Taiwanese Cult Novel

  1. The Membranes (1995) – Chi Ta-wei, trans. Ari Larissa Heinrich
  2. Notes of a Crocodile (1996) – Qiu Miaojin
  3. Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise (2017) – Lin Yi-han

Week 7: In-yer-face theater and the daughter of Beckett

  1. Endgame (1957) – Samuel Beckett
  2. Blasted (1995) – Sarah Kane
  3. Phaedra’s Love (1996) – Sarah Kane
  4. 4.48 Psychosis (1998) – Sarah Kane

Week 8: Latin American Avant-Gardes

  1. Liveforever (1977) – Andrés Caicedo, trans. Frank Wynne
  2. In the Stillness of Marble (2019) – Teresa Wilms Montt, trans. Jessica Sequeira