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the first story that, as he later put it, “rang his cherries” was Donald Barthelme’s “The Balloon.”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
The lower shelves were where I kept the paperbacks I figured I’d never read again. The names on the spines, Herman Hesse, Raymond Radiguet, and Kyusaku Yumeno, had all faded in the sun. Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, and my Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, Notes from Underground, and The Brothers Karamazov. Chekhov, Camus, Steinbeck. The Odyssey
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