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I Like Big BOOKS and I Cannot Lie
The Prisoner and the Fugitive by Marcel Proust The volume inclined to make you wonder most about your own lost time Status: Available Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust The best of the bunch Status:...
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Still Available: A Visit From the Goon Squad
Slate’s Audio Book Club has posted an interesting discussion on Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit from the Goon Squad.” In addition to pointing out that Egan was inspired by The Sopranos and Marcel Proust, the...
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YEAR OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
“…THOSE THINGS OF BEAUTY, HIS WONDERFUL WORKS, WHICH I HAD ONCE CONTRIVED TO FIT INTO THAT INFIRM AND SACRED FRAME, THAT DWELLING I HAD LOVINGLY CONSTRUCTED LIKE A TEMPLE EXPRESSLY DESIGNED TO HOLD...
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Dyer Maker
At the center of the many characters and plot lines in David Gilbert’s new novel & Sons is an aging New York novelist named A.N. Dyer. Dyer’s debut work about young men in a Northeastern boarding...
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Proust Zumba
1. Anne Carson has written her new book, The Albertine Workout, in numbered sections with alphabetical subsections. This makes for a) easy reading. b) an easy review conceit. 2. The content of the...
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