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A List of Things Roberto Bolaño Discussed with His Friend Rodrigo Fresán
From the entry “All Subjects with Fresán,” in Bolaño’s collection Between Parentheses, a list of stuff the late writer talked about with his good friend, which includes (as usual) plenty of references...
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Robert Walser Franz Kafka Henry Miller Thomas Bernhard David Markson Renata Adler W.G. Sebald Lydia Davis Ben Marcus Tagged: Ben Marcus, David Markson, Franz Kafka, list, list with no name, Lists,...
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Ishmael Ishmael & Queequeg Father Mapple & Jonah Elijah Bildad & Peleg Bulkington Starbuck, Stubb & Flask Queequeg, Tashtego & Daggoo Starbuck & Queequeg Stubb & Tashtego...
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10,000 BC 1492 1776 1812 1900 1941 “1969″ 1969 “1979″ 1984 “1999″ 1999 “2000″ 2001 2010 2012 2046 2666 Tagged: list, list with no name
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Shakespeare Faulkner Gaddis Gass Burroughs Vollmann Wordsworth Saroyan Yeats Golding Thackeray Williams Strunk James Styron Hazlitt Baring-Gould Tagged: list, list with no name
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Biblioklept’s Dictionary of Literary Terms
APHORISM A concise, often witty, turn of phrase that should be shared out of context on Twitter or Pinterest. BILDUNGSROMAN Novel where someone (preferably male) matures into the ideal state of bitter...
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Biblioklept’s Dictionary of Literary Terms
ALLEGORY Didactic extended metaphor, best enjoyed amorally. BIOGRAPHY The sordid and lurid details of an author’s life; use as a critical rubric if the author’s work seems beyond comprehension....
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Sinbad the Sailor Tinbad the Tailor Jinbad the Jailer Whinbad the Whaler Ninbad the Nailer Finbad the Failer Binbad the Bailer Pinbad the Pailer Minbad the Mailer Hinbad the Hailer Rinbad the Railer...
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Walking down the street—a windy night, a blustery night, the last remnant of winter poking into new spring—walking with my family, I ran into my former cat. My wife coaxed him from the brick home five...
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Biblioklept’s Dictionary of Literary Terms
AUTEUR French for author, this term denotes a film director who makes the same film again and again and again. BIBLIOGRAPHY A detailed list of the books from which the author plundered all his or her...
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The desire to manufacture and maintain happiness leads our culture, our society, our whatever to repeatedly perform contrived aesthetic scenarios. Happiness being, perhaps, a modern, or at least...
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The Master Inherent Vice Boogie Nights There Will Be Blood Punch Drunk Love Magnolia Hard Eight Tagged: list, list with no name
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Amerika Billy Budd, Sailor The Castle Confessions of Felix Krull The Decembrists The First Man Fragment of a Novel The Garden of Eden The Last Tycoon The Mysterious Stranger The Mystery of Edwin Drood...
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