the next group read?

[Jasper Fidget]

It might be interesting to follow one of these syllabi:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/engl52b/engl52b.f2001.html

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/engl52b/engl52b.html

English 52B F2001
"Studies in American Fiction: Melville and Pynchon"

Course description:

>From M-D to M&D: We will read three of the longest, greatest, most
ambitious, and most awesome & maddening novels in American literature:
Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and Mason
& Dixon (1997). [...]


Or

http://www.majorweather.com/pandm/assign.htm

(probably skip the web design labs, whatever those are there for)