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…
A Sequence on Sequence, An Appendage: Matthew Salesses
Matthew Salesses (whose month-long stint as Writer-in-Residence at Necessary Fiction has already been mentioned here) contributes a few thoughts…
Review Issue 00!
Yet another issue of Review, Issue 00!, Spring, 2012: Paul Simon, it’s “Graceland.” Enjoy! Fiction Michael A. Martone | Wikipedia…
A Sequence on Sequence, Part 4: Nathan Huffstutter
[A guest post from Nathan Huffstutter. Nathan Huffstutter’s work can be found at The Nervous Breakdown, The Collagist, and…