May 24, 2013: American Studies Beach Reads Redux, Part Five

[Last year, I helped celebrate summer with a series on American Studies Beach Reads. It was a lot of fun, so I thought I’d do the same this year; I’m doing so a good bit earlier this time to give you some good options for your Memorial Day Weekend reading. Please share your nominees for a crowd-sourced weekend post that’ll kick off its shoes and settle into the hammock!]

Five more nominations for great beach reads, drawn from past blog posts:

1)      Ross MacDonald’s hardboiled PI novels;

2)      Lucille Clifton’s collected poems;

3)      Ambrose Bierce’s short stories and nonfiction;

4)      Susan Glaspell’s Trifles;

5)      Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father.

All worth your seaside time! Crowd-sourced reads this weekend,

Ben

PS. So what would you nominate as an AmericanStudies beach read? I need suggestions for my towel time too!