Koster's ENG 246 Assignment Playbook

The novel

• Revolutionary Road (audiobook)
• Revolutionary Road (e-book)

Reviews and analysis

• The Lost World of Richard Yates, from The Boston Review
• A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates (book), by Blake Bailey
• An Interview with Richard Yates, from Ploughshares
• Dismembering the American Dream: The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates (e-book)
• Richard Yates and the Flawed American Dream : Critical Essays (e-book)
• Like Men  Betrayed: Revisiting Richard Yates's "Revolutionary Road," from The New Yorker
• An Emotional Journey Down 'Revolutionary Road,' from NPR
• Left Unsaid, a review from The Guardian
• A review from Michiko Kukutani of The New York Times, reprinted by Bookmarks
• On Marriage and Other Ridiculous Delusions in Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road, from Epiphany
• Critical essay from Harper's Magazine
• Biography of Richard Yates, with information about Revolutionary Road
• Blaming the 'Burbs,' from The New Republic
• Richard Yates: Talking to DeWitt Henry and Geoffrey Clark, from The Transatlantic Review
• Revolutionary Road, from American Book Review
• Writing Systems: Richard Yates, Remington Rand, and the Univac, from The Sewanee Review
• Bartlebys All!, from Dissent

Note:  You do not have to rely solely on sources about the novel.  You can also identify themes in the novel and find sources about those themes in general, then apply what you learn to the novel.