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,…
j/j hastain’s “Literary Pillars”
The Little Prince, Katherine Woods TC Tolbert-Territories of Folding-Wandering, bridge-like. Narrative submerged, but also willing to be plucked up. De…
Jane Ciabattari’s “Literary Pillars”
The books I treasure explore the nature of time and “reality,” integrate non-domestic external realities with the personal realm, startle…
Paula Bomer’s “Literary Pillars”
1-The Collected Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor 2-Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor 3-Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor 4-War…