What to read and why
Celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers the author admires above all others, from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York, NY
Harper
[2018]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Ten things that art can do
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- Charles Dickens, Great expectations
- Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
- George Gissing, New Grub Street
- The collected stories of Mavis Gallant
- Robert Bolaño, 2666
- Complimentary toilet paper: some thoughts on character and language--Michael Jeffrey Lee, George Saunders, John Cheever, Denis Johnson
- Edward St. Aubyn, the Patrick Melrose novels
- Paul Bowles, The stories of Paul Bowles and The spider's house
- Patrick Hamilton, Twenty thousand streets under the sky: a London trilogy; The slaves of solitude; Hangover Square: a story of darkest Earl's court
- Isaac Babel
- Lolita, just the dirty parts: on the erotic and pornographic
- Gitta Sereny, Cries unheard
- Andrea Canobbio, Three light-years
- Diane Arbus: Revelations
- Helen Levitt: Crosstown
- Mark Strand, Mr. and Mrs. Baby
- Karl Ove Knausgaard, My struggle
- Elizabeth Taylor, Complete short stories
- Louisa May Alcott, Little women
- Jane Austen
- Charles Baxter, Believers
- Debora Levy, Swimming home
- Alice Munro, Lives of girls and women
- Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach
- Rebecca West
- Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
- On clarity
- Reiner Stach, Is that Kafka? 99 finds
- What makes a short story?
- In praise of Stanley Elkin