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July 30, 2012March 9, 2019 - Uncategorized

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…

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July 30, 2012August 7, 2012 - Uncategorized

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…

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July 30, 2012August 7, 2012 - Uncategorized

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…

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July 30, 2012August 7, 2012 - Uncategorized

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,…

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July 30, 2012August 7, 2012 - Uncategorized

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…

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July 30, 2012March 6, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized

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…

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July 30, 2012August 7, 2012 - Uncategorized

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…

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July 30, 2012March 7, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Reading, Uncategorized

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…

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July 30, 2012July 29, 2012 - Uncategorized

Matt Bell’s “Literary Pillars”

I started this list a month ago, and over the course of an afternoon I got to forty-nine without too…

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July 30, 2012March 3, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Reading, Uncategorized

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…

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