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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


“Lachrimae”
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
John Updike’s The Centaur,
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood

Maurice Sendak
Eric Puchner • Dream State: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel
She reads Thoreau over wood fires at night.