25 remaining, & here they are, picking up where we left off, with Tolstoy & his disgraced Natasha 26) The…
Unstuck #2
[Unstuck‘s first issue, which came out last November, was big: 352 lavishly illustrated pages, and incredible fun to read…
For Big Other on William H. Gass’s Birthday
If one tried to construct the Temple of Literature from only the fifty “pillars” below, it would collapse spectacularly. Nevertheless,…
William Walsh’s “Literary Pillars”
After examining three bookshelf walls in our home—one in the living room and two in the basement (one on the…
Tim Horvath’s “Literary Pillars”
The Top Five: As widely as my tastes ebb and flow, these five remain, stalwarts, five friends I want with…
Lance Olsen’s “Literary Pillars”
1. Petronius, Satyricon (1st century A.D.) 2. Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605, 1616). 3. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67) 4. Mary…
Robert Lopez’s “Literary Pillars”
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Samuel Beckett The Complete Short Prose, Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett…
Alexandra Chasin’s “Literary Pillars”
1. What Shall I Put in the Hole That I Dig? Eleanor Thompson The first book I read. Can’t write…
Gabriel Blackwell’s “Literary Pillars”
I embarked on a list-led reading quest over a decade ago—not with Gass’s list, but with Borges’s (“A Personal Library”)—but…
Gary Amdahl’s “Literary Pillars”
A great many grand and beloved books are missing from this list; I thought I’d try to draw up something…