Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams Isaac Babel, Collected Stories J.G. Ballard, Crash Donald Barthelme, City Life Samuel Beckett,…
Paul Kincaid’s “Literary Pillars”
I confess, I don’t really know what a literary pillar is. The more I tried to think about this list…
Jamie Iredell’s “Literary Pillars”
First, it was really hard to narrow this down to fifty “literary pillars,” for myself as a writer. I had…
Greg Hunter’s “Literary Pillars”
Hamlet, William Shakespeare “White Nights,” Fyodor Dostoevsky Dubliners, James Joyce Look Homeward Angel, Thomas Wolfe Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett Ulysses,…
Christopher Higgs’s “Fifty Literary Pillars”
To build this list, I asked myself: “If somehow my brain was erased, what fifty books would be needed in…
In Honor of William Gass: 50 Literary Moments
1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll: This is the first book I remember in any detail. My father read…
Johannes Göransson’s “Pillars of Truth”
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF ART I think of going to a performance by “Blackie,” an improvisational band, in…
Rikki Ducornet’s “Literary Pillars”
(I attempted to list the very special books that were the potencies behind my thinking as a child and young…
Claire Donato’s “Literary Pillars”
(Compiled intuitively and without explanation as non-hierarchically as possible. Reflective of the now with some of then, only the tip…
Vincent Czyz’s “Literary Pillars”
Dhalgren, S.R. Delany Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar The Recognitions, William Gaddis On Liberty, John Stuart Mill Moby-Dick, Melville Heart of Darkness,…