Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It, by Maile Meloy
Everything Here Is The Best Thing Ever, by Justin Taylor
Aren’t these titles strangely similar?
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"[B]eauty is a defiance of authority."—William Carlos Williams
Is it their use of repetition, specifically polyptoton? And that the two phrases are divided by an auxiliary verb?
How about these less interesting mirroring titles?
Gass’s In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country
Letter to His Father, by Franz Kafka
Letters to Wendy’s, by Joe Wenderoth
The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Invention of Solitude, by Paul Auster
The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros
The House on the Hill, by Cesare Pavese
First Love, by Samuel Beckett
First Love, by Ivan Turgenev
Goodbye, Columbus, by Philip Roth
Goodbye, Madagascar, by Jennifer Spiegel
In Praise of Shadows, by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
In Praise of the Stepmother, by Mario Vargas Llosa
“People Like That Are the Only People Here” – Lorrie Moore
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” – Carver
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, by Haruki Murakami
I wonder if the Carver title started it all.
The Murakami one is for sure a Carver reference. He said it was.
Yeah, I read the book, along with most of Murakami.
Either Way It Seems Like a Lot Of Chapbooks And Collections Have Long Titles That Evoke a Sense of Shared Experience
Ha!
So what’s the literary equivalent to Fiona Apple’s album title “When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king
What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight
And he’ll win the whole thing ‘fore he enters the ring
There’s no body to batter when your mind is your might
So when you go solo, you hold your own hand
And remember that depth is the greatest of heights
And if you know where you stand, then you know where to land
And if you fall it won’t matter, cuz you’ll know that you’re right”?
Joy Williams: The Changeling (reprinted by Fairy Tale Review Press)
Lily Hoang: Changing (published by Fairy Tale Review Press)
(smile)
I think there a lot of short-sentence-length titles out there right now:
Also:
No One Belongs Here More Than You – Miranda July
I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl – Karyna McGlynn
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine – Ben Tanzer
There’s a lot more – but those are the one’s I just thought of in a second. One of the above is more threatening than the others. Can you tell which?
Also: these books look alike:
More of This World or Maybe Another
by Barb Johnson:
http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/NASApp/store/Product?s=showproduct&isbn=9780061732270
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories(P.S. (Paperback))(Paperback)
by Peelle, Lydia
http://womenandchildrenfirst.com/NASApp/store/Product?s=showproduct&isbn=9780061724732
I’ve been seeing a lot of cover-twins lately.
Vanishing Point, by David Markson
Vanishing Point, by Ander Monson
Even the authors’ names bear some resemblances.