Ordinary Life


Art Film Literature


Art


Bartley, Mary Anne     Aerobics of the Spirit
Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon     The Attentive Nurse
Courbet, Gustave     A Burial at Ornans
Degas, Edgar     Interior
Dou, Geritt     The Quack
Garcia, Emanuel E.     Aerobics of the Spirit
Gorsline, Douglas Warner     Bar Scene
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste     A Tired Woman with Two Children
    The Well-Loved Mother
Hopper, Edward     Drug Store
Klimt, Gustav     Hope, II
Koch, John     Interlude
Murakami, Takashi     Inochi
Neel, Alice     Loneliness
Picasso, Pablo     The Tragedy
Rockwell, Norman Percevel     Before the Shot
Salgado, Sebastiao     An Uncertain Grace
Sickert, Walter Richard     Ennui
Sigler, Hollis     To Kiss the Spirits: Now, This Is What It Is Really Like
Steen, Jan     The Doctor's Visit
Worsham, Erin Brady     Headturner
    Mind, Body, Spirit


Film


    About Schmidt
    American Beauty
    Antonia's Line
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    The Body Beautiful
    The Color of Paradise
    Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
    Daughters of the Dust
    Death in the Seine
    The Deep
    Departures (Okuribito)
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Dust to Dust (Por la libre)
    Extraordinary Measures
    Far From Heaven
    Garden State
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    Ikiru
    Indestructible
    Jesus of Montréal
    Kinsey
    Lone Star
    Monsoon Wedding
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    Mrs. Dalloway
    Mrs. Tucker, Her Daughter Emily and Dr. Duff
    Murderball
    My Life Without Me
    Of Hopscotch and Little Girls
    Ordinary People
    Pauline & Paulette
    Red Beard (Akahige)
    Requiem for a Dream
    Respiro
    Robert Coles, Teacher
    Safe
    The Secret Garden
    Seducing Dr. Lewis (La Grande Séduction)
    Sicko
    Something the Lord Made
    The Son's Room
    Strangers in Good Company
    Super Size Me
    Terms of Endearment
    Three Colors: Blue
    The Undertaking
    Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back
    Wanted! Doctor on Horseback
    When Did You Last See Your Father?
    A Woman Under the Influence
    A Woman's Tale
    World's Greatest Dad
    You Can Count on Me


Literature


Abrahams, Lionel     The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan
Abse, Dannie     Anti-Clockwise (2)
    Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
Albom, Mitch     Tuesdays with Morrie
Alegria, Claribel     Sorrow/Saudade
Alexander, Sally Hobart     Taking Hold: My Journey into Blindness
Amis, Martin     Time's Arrow
Anderson, Laurie Halse     Fever 1793
Anderson, M. F., ed.     Reflections from a Mud Puddle: Helping Children Cope and Grow
Ariyoshi, Sawako     The Twilight Years
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Atwood, Margaret     Hairball
Auden, W. H.     Musee des Beaux Arts
Austin, Paul     Something for the Pain
Baida, Peter     A Nurses's Story
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova     The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Baratz-Logsted, Lauren     Angel's Choice
Barker, Pat     Another World
Barrett, Andrea     Servants of the Map
Barth, John     On with the Story
Baruch, Jay     Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers
Bellarosa, James M.     A problem of plumbing
Bennett, Alan     Smut: Two Unseemly Stories
Bennett, Arnold     Riceyman Steps
Berg, Elizabeth     Durable Goods
    Range of Motion
Bishop, Elizabeth     In the Waiting Room
Bloch, Chana     Mrs. Dumpty
Blume, Judy     Forever
Bly, R. , et al., eds.     The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     Juliana Cloth
Brabner, Joyce     Our Cancer Year
Bradbury, Ray     The Leave-Taking
Breslin, Rosemary     Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
Brookner, Anita     Hotel du Lac
Brooks, Gwendolyn     The Bean Eaters
    We Real Cool
Brown, Carrie     Miniature Man
Browning, Robert     Fra Lippo Lippi
Broyard, Anatole     Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
Bryner, Jeanne     Eclipse
Bumbalo, Victor G.     What are Tuesdays Like?
Burack-Weiss, Ann     The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Busch, Frederick     The Talking Cure
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Butler, Robert Olen     Love
Canin, Ethan     Batorsag and Szerelem
    We Are Nighttime Travelers
Carmichael, A. G. & Ratzan, Richard M., eds.     Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature
Carruth, Hayden     Doctor Jazz: Poems 1996-2000
Carver, Raymond     The Autopsy Room
    Fat
    Gravy
    Little Things
    Vitamins
Cather, Willa     Neighbour Rosicky
    Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de     The Glass Graduate
Chaikin, Joseph     Struck Dumb
Chamoiseau, Patrick     Texaco
Chaon, Dan     Fitting Ends
Charach, Ron     Dungenessque
    Petrushkin!
Chekhov, Anton P.     An Attack of Nerves (A Nervous Breakdown)
    The Bear
    The Beauties
    A Boring Story
    The Darling
    The Duel
    Gooseberries
    Happiness
    Intrigues: Nine Stories by Anton Chekhov
    Ionych
    My Life
    Perpetuum Mobile
    The Schoolmaster
    The Seagull
    The Swedish Match
    The Teacher of Literature
    Terror
    Three Sisters
    Three Years
    Uncle Vanya
Chinen, Allan B.     In the Ever After: Fairy Tales and Psychological Development in the Second Half of Life
Christiansen, C. B.     I See the Moon
Ciardi, John     Washing Your Feet
Cisneros, Sandra     His Story
Clark-Sayles, Catharine     One Breath
Cleavland, Clif     Sacred Space: Stories from a Life in Medicine
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Clifton, Lucille     in the inner city
    poem in praise of menstruation
    poem to my uterus
    wishes for sons
Coetzee, J. M.     Diary of a Bad Year
Cohen, Marion Deutsche     Chronic Progressive
Connor, Ralph     The Doctor: A Tale of the Rockies
Cook, Karin     What Girls Learn
Corso, Gregory     Hair
Coulehan, Jack     Appetite
    Finches
    The Heavenly Ladder
    Medicine Stone
Crace, Jim     Being Dead
Crimmins, Cathy     Where is the Mango Princess?
Cromer, Janet M.     Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Crutcher, Chris     Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)     anyone lived in a pretty how town
    a man who had fallen among thieves
Cunningham, Michael     The Hours
d'Arzo, Silvio (Ezio Comparoni)     The House of Others
Danticat, Edwidge     Breath, Eyes, Memory
Davis, Heather Choate     Baptism by Fire
Defoe, Daniel     Robinson Crusoe
DeLillo, Don     White Noise
Dickens, Charles     A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
    Our Mutual Friend
Dickinson, Emily     My life closed twice
Didion, Joan     The Year of Magical Thinking
Dillard, Annie     Holy the Firm
Dodd, Susan     The Mourner's Bench
Doerr, Harriet     Stones for Ibarra
Drabble, Margaret     The Seven Sisters
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Dunmore, Helen     The Betrayal
Dunn, Stephen     After the Argument
    Checklist
    He/She
    Long Term
    Turning Fifty
Easton, Kelly     To Be Mona
Edwards, Kim     The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
    Middlemarch
Elliott, C. & Lantos, J., eds.     The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Erdrich, Louise     Love Medicine
Eugenides, Jeffrey     Middlesex
Ferris, Joshua     The Unnamed
Fincke, Gary     Sorry I Worried You
Fiser, Karen     Losing and Finding
Fisher, Diane Gilliam     One of Everything
Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott     Tender Is the Night
Foster, P. & Swander, M., eds.     The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery
Fox, Mem (Merrion Frances)     Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Freeman, Jerome W.     Starting from Here: Dakota Poetry, Pottery, and Caring
Freud, Sigmund     Civilization and its Discontents
    The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious
Fries, Kenny     The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Galgut, Damon     The Good Doctor
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie     Staring: How We Look
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
    Ruth
Gilbert, S. M., ed.     Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins     The Yellow Wallpaper
Gloag, Julian     Only Yesterday
Glowney, John     Word of the Cure
Gonzales, Laurence     Lucy
Gordimer, Nadine     Get a Life
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Graham-Pole, J. & Joy, C., eds.     On Wings of Spirit: Anthology of The American Physicians' Poetry Association
Grealy, Lucy     Mirrorings
Green, Gerald     To Brooklyn with Love
Grogan, John     Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog
Grumbach, Doris     Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir
Guillen, Nicolas     Man-making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen
Høeg, Peter     Pity for the Children of Vaden Town
Hacker, Randi     Life As I Knew It
Hadas, R., ed.     Unending Dialogue: Voices from an AIDS Poetry Workshop
Haddix, Margaret Peterson     Because of Anya
    Fine?
    Running Out of Time
Haddon, Mark     The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Haigh, Jennifer     The Condition
Harris, J. W., ed.     Remembrances and Celebrations: A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs
Harrison, Jeffrey     Incomplete Knowledge
Henry, O.     The Last Leaf
Hikmet, Nazim     My Funeral
Hoagland, Tony     Totally
Holub, Miroslav     Death in the Evening
Hornby, Nick     How To Be Good
    Introduction to Talking with the Angel
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward)     A Shropshire Lad
Hugo, Richard     Graves at Elkhorn
Humes, Harry     Butterfly Effect
Hunt, Nan     A Palsied Girl Goes to the Beach
Husson, Thérèse-Adèle     Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France
Hyde, Catherine Ryan     Becoming Chloe
Ishiguro, Kazuo     Never Let Me Go
Jarrell, D. & Sukrungruang, I., eds.     What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology
Jen, Gish     Birthmates
    Who's Irish?
Jin, Ha     Waiting
Johnson, Harriet McBryde     Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Johnson, Hillary     My Mother Dying
Johnson, Steven     The Ghost Map
Jolley, Elizabeth     Dingle the Fool
Jones, Richard     The Remedy
Kadohata, Cynthia     Kira Kira
Karnezis, Panos     Medical Ethics
Kaysen, Susanna     Girl, Interrupted
Kenney, Susan     In Another Country
    Sailing
Kenyon, Jane     Otherwise
    Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
    The Sick Wife
Kis, Danilo     The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Klass, Perri     Love and Modern Medicine
Kocher, Philomene     Signs of Spring: Haiku Poems by Persons with Dementia
Kooser, Ted     Father: May 19, 1999
Kovacic, Kristin, & Barrett, L., eds.     Birth: A Literary Companion
Lagomarsino, Nancy     Light from an Eclipse
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
Lamott, Anne     Blue Shoe
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Landvik, Lorna     The Great Mysterious
Lang, James M.     Learning Sickness
Laqueur, Thomas Walter     Clio among the Old Folks
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)     The Blind Man
Lawson, Henry     'Water Them Geraniums'
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Leavitt, David     Equal Affections
Lee, Li-Young     The Gift
    Persimmons
LeGuin, Ursula K.     The Space Crone
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
Lifshitz, L. H., ed.     Only Morning in Her Shoes: Poems About Old Women
Livesey, Margot     Banishing Verona
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
Long, David     The Inhabited World
Lowry, Lois     The Giver
    The Silent Boy
Lurie, Alison     Love and Friendship
Lynch, Thomas     Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
    The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Lynn, Tracy     Rx
MacLaverty, Bernard     The Clinic
MacLeod, Anne     Standing by Thistles
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mann, Thomas     The Black Swan
Mansfield, Katherine     In A German Pension: 13 Stories
    The Man Without a Temperament
Margolis, Leslie     Fix
Mates, Susan Onthank     The Good Doctor
    Laundry
Matlin, Marlee     Deaf Child Crossing
Matton, Sylvie     Rembrandt's Whore
Matute, Ana Maria     School of the Sun
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCormick, Patricia     My Brother's Keeper
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McDermott, Alice     Charming Billy
McEwan, Ian     Saturday
McFarland, Dennis     Singing Boy
McGovern, Cammie     Eye Contact
McMahon, Ted     The Uses of Imperfection
Mehta, Ved     Sound Shadows of the New World
Miklowitz, Gloria D.     Past Forgiving
Miles, Miska     Annie and the Old One
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Called Out
    Soon: Tales from Hospice
Molière,     A Doctor in Spite of Himself
Montaigne, Michel de     Of Experience
Montgomery, Judith H.     Mercury
Morris, Winifred     Secret Numbers
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Mowry, Jess     Babylon Boyz
Mukand, Jon Arun     First Payment
Nashe, Thomas     A Litany in the Time of Plague
Nemerov, Howard     Fugue
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
    Under the Eye of the Clock
Norris, Kathleen     Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
O'Connor, Flannery     Everything That Rises Must Converge
O'Connor, Mary Bradish     Say Yes Quickly
Olds, Sharon     Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once
    The Promise
    That Moment
    Waste Sonata
    The Wellspring
Oliveira, Robin     My Name is Mary Sutter
Olsen, Sylvia     The Girl With a Baby
Paterson, Katherine     Park's Quest
Pekar, Harvey     Our Cancer Year
Percy, Walker     The Thanatos Syndrome
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Perillo, Lucia     I've Heard the Vultures Singing
Perkins, Fionna     The Changes
Peterson, Margaret Kim     Sing Me to Heaven: The Story of a Marriage
Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis     Riding the Flume
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Picardie, Ruth     Before I Say Goodbye
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
    House Rules
Piercy, Marge     Cold Head, Cold Heart
Plath, Sylvia     Insomniac
Polacco, Patricia     The Keeping Quilt
Pollan, Michael     The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Porter, Katherine Anne     The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Price, Jill     The Woman Who Can't Forget
Price, Reynolds     The Good Priest's Son
Proulx, E. Annie     The Shipping News
Pym, Barbara     Quartet in Autumn
Rankine, Claudia     Plot
Remen, Rachel Naomi     Kitchen Table Wisdom
Rhett, K., ed.     Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis
Rinaldi, Ann     An Acquaintance with Darkness
Roberts, Willo Davis     Don't Hurt Laurie!
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Roethke, Theodore     My Papa's Waltz
Roney, Lisa     Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes
Rosen, David     The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Rothman, Sheila     Living in the Shadow of Death
Saltzman, Joan     Mr. Right and My Left Kidney
Sams, Ferrol     The Whisper of the River
Sarton, May     Recovering
Schoemperlen, Diane     Body Language
    Forms of Devotion
    On Looking Further into the Bodies of Men
    Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel
    The Spacious Chambers of Her Heart
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Balancing Acts
    Referred Pain
    The Wrath-Bearing Tree
Seaver, Anne Mae Halgram     My World Now
Sebold, Alice     The Lovely Bones
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Selzer, Richard     Toenails
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Shafer, Audrey     The Mailbox
    Monday Morning
Shapiro, Alan     The Dead Alive and Busy
    Vigil
Shapiro, Dan     Mom's Marijuana
Shapshay, S., ed.     Bioethics at the Movies
Sheed, Wilfrid     In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
    The Stone Diaries
    Unless
Shin, Nan     Diary of a Zen Nun: Every Day Living
Shute, Jenefer P.     Life-Size
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Silverstein, Shel (Sheldon Allan)     Sick
Simmons, Philip     Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
Simpson, Louis     Chocolates
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Slocum, Milton Jonathan     Manhattan Country Doctor: A Memoir
Smiley, Jane G.     The Age of Grief
Smith, D. (Dennis) L.     The Miracles of Santo Fico
Sonnenblick, Jordan     Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Soto, Gary     Afternoon Memory
Spann, C., ed.     Poet Healer: Contemporary Poems for Health & Healing
St. Andrews, B. A. (Bonnie)     Alzheimer's
Steinbeck, John     The Pastures of Heaven
    Sweet Thursday
Stephenson, Lynda     Dancing with Elvis
Stone, John     Answering The Phone
    Early Sunday Morning
    He Makes a House Call
    Music From Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems
    Where Water Begins
Stone, Ruth     In the Next Galaxy
Straus, Marc J.     A Minor Issue
Sullivan, Jacqueline Levering     Annie's War
Taylor, Patrick     An Irish Country Doctor
Tomey, Ingrid     Nobody Else Has to Know
Torga, Miguel     The Lord
Trevor, William     Sacred Statues
Tucker, Neely     Love in the Driest Season
Updike, John     The City
    The Persistence of Desire
van Itallie, Jean-Claude     Struck Dumb
vanMeenan, K. & Rossiter, C., eds.     Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace
Verghese, Abraham     The Tennis Partner
Viorst, Judith     The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     Adam
Wagner, Pamela Spiro     We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
Wait, Lea     Finest Kind
    Wintering Well
Walls, Jeannette     The Glass Castle
Waring, Belle     Dark Blonde
    Refuge
Watts, H. David     The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
Weinberger, Florence     Carnal Fragrance
Weishaus, Joel     The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Welty, Eudora     Why I Live at the P.O.
Wendell, Susan     The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Wharton, Edith     Ethan Frome
Whelan, Gloria     Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky
    A Time to Keep Silent
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks)     The Second Tree from the Corner
Williams, Lori Aurelia     Broken China
Williams, William Carlos     The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams
    A Night in June
    Of Medicine and Poetry
    so much depends
    White Mule
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Wolff, Tobias     Bullet in the Brain
Woolf, Virginia     To the Lighthouse
Wordsworth, William     Resolution and Independence
Yang, Belle     Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders
Yolen, Jane     The Radiation Sonnets
Zeidenstein, S., ed.     Family Reunion: Poems About Parenting Grown Children
Zimmer, Paul     The Tenth Circle