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Longer, Rougher and Deeper: The 10 Books I Would Want to Read This Summer If My Thesis Were Dead (English Edition)

• August 1, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Autodidact, Books
Tags: summer reading list, thesis

Spring Cheever

• January 28, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Autodidact, Books
Tags: john cheever, library of america

Krapp’s Choice: The Great Traveling Library Thins Its Ranks

• December 22, 2008 • 3 Comments

Posted in Autodidact, Books
Tags: biblioclasm, bibliophilia, Books, libraries

André Gide: Subtle Master of the Homoerotic!

• October 14, 2008 • 1 Comment

Posted in Books, French + France
Tags: andre gide, country matters, homoerotic literature, immoralist

The Best Minds of Their Generations

• September 25, 2008 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Books, Film + Television
Tags: a.o. scott, david foster wallace, godard, richard brody

Against Beach Reading

• July 22, 2008 • 6 Comments

Posted in Aesthetics + Philo, Autodidact, Books
Tags: Aesthetics + Philo, albet camus, alice munro, beach reading, david denby, dorothy parker, evelyn waugh, f. scott fitzgerald, flannery o'connor, georges simenon, graham greene, hemginway, ian mcewan, isaac babel, j.d. salinger, john cheever, kingsley amis, literary criticism, philip k. dick, philip roth, raymond chandler, saul bellow, sherwood anderson, standard of taste, summer reading list

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