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36th Annual Writers' Festival
Suzan-Lori Parks ---- Selected
Bibliography
(Picture downloaded from http://www.barclayagency.com/parks.html
2/22/07)
As part of the 36th
Annual Writers' Festival, there will be a public reading by Suzan-Lori
Parks, a novelist, screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
who has won acclaim for her depictions of modern African-American life
in her plays. During this event, Suzan-Lori Parks will discuss the process
of becoming a writer, the need to follow one’s own creative voice,
and the current role of the American theater. The evening may also include
a performance with guitar and song.
Parks writes with grace and a razor wit about race, heritage, family,
and history. This year her project 365 Days/365 Plays—in which she
wrote a play a day for a full year—is being performed in over six
hundred theatres nationwide, making it the single largest collaboration
in the history of the American theatre.
In conjunction with the public reading, we have compiled a bibliography
of selected resources by and about the writer
Books and Plays
Bennett, Michael & Dickerson, Vanessa D. Recovering
the Black female body: self-representations by African American women,
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c2001. E185.86
.R37
Cole, Susan Letzler, Playwrights in rehearsal:
the seduction of company, New York: Routledge, 2001. PS350
.C65
Frazier, John P. Introduction to literature: the
arts and cultural diversity, Boston: Pearson Custom Pub., 2006.
Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Guare, John, Kushner, Tony & Parks, Suzan-Lori [et
al.]. Conjunctions 25: the new American theater, Annandale-on-Hudson,
NY: Bard College, 1995. Available through
Interlibrary Loan.
Marks, J. H. & Parks, Suzan-Lori. Girl 6: adapted
from the screenplay by Suzan-Lori Parks, London: Signet, 1996.
Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Parks, Suzan-Lori. The America play, and other
works, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995. PS3566.A736
A8
Parks, Suzan-Lori. Betting on the dust commander:
(practice makes practice makes), New York: Palywright's Press,
1990. Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Parks, Suzan-Lori. The death of the last Black
man in the whole entire world, in Lamont, Rosette C.
Women on the verge: 7 avant-garde American plays, New York:
Applause, c1993. PS628.W6 W664
Parks, Suzan-Lori. Getting mother's body: a novel,
New York: Random House, 2003. Available at DeKalb
County Library and through Interlibrary
Loan.
Parks, Suzan-Lori. Imperceptible mutabilities in
the Third Kingdom, in Wetzsteon, Ross. The Best of
off-broadway: eight contemporary Obie-winning plays, New York:
Mentor, c1994. PS634 .B466
Parks, Suzan-Lori. Imperceptible mutabilities in
the third kingdom, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1995.
Available through Interlibrary
Loan.
Parks, Suzan-Lori. In the blood, New York:
Dramatists Play Service, 2000. Available
through Interlibrary Loan.
Parks, Suzan-Lori. The red letter plays, New
York: Theatre Communications Group; St. Paul, MN: Distributed to the
book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, c2001. PS3566.A736
R44
Parks, Suzan-Lori. 365 days/365 plays,
New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2006. Available
through Interlibrary Loan.
Parks, Suzan-Lori. Topdog/underdog, New
York: Theatre Communications Group; St. Paul, MN: Distributed to the
book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2001. PS3566.A736
T66
Parks, Suzan-Lori. Venus: a play, New
York: Theatre Communications Group, 1997. Available
through Interlibrary Loan.
Parks, Suzan-Lori & Vais, Bo`az. Al gufatah
shel Ima- Getting mother's body (Hebrew), Moshav Ben-Shemen,
Israel: Modan, 2004.
Pospisil, Craig. Outstanding women's monologues
2001-2002, New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2002. Available
through Interlibrary Loan.
Interviews, Journal Articles & Reviews
Als, Hilton. The
show-woman. New Yorker, 10/30/2006, 82 (35) 
Bernard, Louise. The
musicality of language: redefining history in Suzan-Lori Parks's The
Death of the Last Black in the whole entire world. African American
Review, Winter97, 31 (4)
Brustein, Robert.
The element of surprise. New Republic, 01/24/2000, 222
(4)
Brustein, Robert. A
homeboy godot. New Republic, 5/13/2002, 226 (18)
Brustein, Robert. Robert
Brustein on theater. New Republic, 4/13/92, 206 (15)
Bryant, Aaron. Broadway,
her way. New Crisis (15591603), Mar/Apr2002, 109 (2)
Drukman, Steven. Suzan-Lori
Parks and Liz Diamond. TDR: The Drama Review, Fall95,
39 (3)
Garrett, Shawn-Marie. The
possession of Susan Lori Parks. American Theatre, Oct2000,
17 (8)
Hogue, Bev.
Naming the bones: bodies of knowledge in contemporary fiction. Modern
Fiction Studies, Spring2006, 52 (1) 
Jiggetts, Shelby. Interview
with Suzan-Lori Parks. Callaloo, Spring96, 19 (2)
Johung, Jennifer. Figuring
the “spells”/spelling the figures: Suzan-Lori Parks's “scene
of love (?)”. Theatre Journal, Mar2006, 58 (1)
Kolin, Philip C. Parks's
In the Blood. Explicator, Summer2006, 64 (4)
Miller, Greg. The
bottom of desire in Suzan-Lori Parks's venus. Modern Drama,
Spring2002, 45 (1)
Morgan, Joan.
Wondering who flipped the `Girl 6' script? Meet playwright Suzan-Lori
Parks. Essence, Apr96, 26 (12)
Parks, Suzan-Lori . The
Light in August. (cover story). American Theatre, Nov2005,
22 (9)
Parks, Suzan-Lori. Getting
mother's body. Essence, May2003, 34 (1)
Parks, Suzan-Lori. In
the blood. American Theatre, Mar2000, 17 (3)
Parks, Suzan-Lori.
Selections from 365 days 365 plays. American Theatre, Nov2006,
23 (9)
Parks, Suzan-Lori. New
black math. Theatre Journal, Dec2005, 57 (4)
Rayner, Alice & Elam Jr., Harry J. Unfinished
business: reconfiguring history in Suzan-Lori Park's `The Death of the
Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World. Theatre Journal,
Dec94, 46 (4)
Shannon, Sandra.
What is a black play? tales from my theoretical corner.
Theatre Journal, Dec2005, 57 (4)
Walat, Kathryn. These
are the days 365. American Theatre, Nov2006, 23 (9)
Wilmer, S.E. Restaging
the nation: the work of Suzan-Lori Parks. Modern Drama, Fall2000,
43 (3)
Young, Jean. The
re-objectification and re-commodification of Saartjie Baartman in Suzan-Lori
Parks's Venus. African American Review, Winter97, 31 (4)
Zoglin, Richard. Moving
marginal characters to center stage. Time, 02/19/2001,
157 (7)
Websites
A conversation with Suzan-Lori Parks - http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2003/06/20030606_b_main.asp
NPR : Suzan-Lori Parks launches '365 Days/365 Plays' -
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6480604
The Show woman: Suzan Lori Parks’s idea for the largest
theatre collaboration ever.by Hilton Als - http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/061030fa_fact2?page=1
Suzan-Lori Parks Steven Barclay Agency - http://www.barclayagency.com/parks.html
women of color women of words - suzan-lori parks - http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/parks2.html5-20
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