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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Jess Walter, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Pynchon, Emma Donoghue, Lloyd Jones, Adam Foulds, Orhan Pamuk, Téa Obreht, and Audrey Niffenegger.
Thomas C Foster • How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
John Barth’s long story “Lost in the Funhouse,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
wrote about Scott, for example, but I gave him a cover name: Julian [in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”].
A. E. Hotchner • Hemingway in Love: His Own Story
En affûtant un peu la lame de votre curiosité, vous aboutissez à cette conclusion que le xixe siècle nous a donné trois géants, Thoreau, Whitman et Melville, dont le xxe siècle n’a pas produit l’équivalent. Assez comiquement, Thoreau n’avait pas de compétence particulière pour la survie par l’agriculture, mais son écriture a gardé toute son
... See moreHenry D. THOREAU, Jim Harrison, Brice MATTHIEUSSENT, • Walden (LITTERATURES) (French Edition)
Because the sounds he heard were not identical to what others heard, he needed something beyond the standardized language that tied every human to the past and reduced every new adventure to merely a slight variation on some earlier episode.
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
Blind leads—wherein you withhold the name of the person you are writing about and reveal it after a paragraph or two—range from slightly cheap to very cheap.
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
Algren, and Bourjaily, and was very taken by my best student, Ian MacMillan. He promised to do his best to get Harper’s Magazine to publish something of Ian’s. You ask me to tell you of any good students in my