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Paul Gleason

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in Milwaukee, WI, The United States

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Paul Gleason received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas, where he worked as managing editor of the D.H. Lawrence Review. He has published essays on major modernist and postmodernist writers, including Beckett, DeLillo, Eliot, Joyce, Lawrence, McElroy, Nabokov, and Vollmann. Understanding T.C. Boyle is his first book. He's also worked as a music journalist and has published many articles on and reviews of rock music and conducted interviews with musicians and filmmakers, for various internet and print publications. ...more

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200 Favorite Writers and Their Best Books

1. Abe, Kōbō – The Woman in the Dunes (Japan)
2. Acker, Kathy – Blood and Guts in High School (USA)
3. Adorno, Theodor – Aesthetic Theory (Germany)
4. Aeschylus – Agamemnon and Prometheus Bound (in Greek Tragedies: Volume 1) (Greece)
5. Alighieri, Dante – Divine Comedy (Italy)
6. Aristophanes – The Complete Plays (Greece)
7. Aristotle – Selections (Greece)
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	Understanding T. C. Boyle really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dismantling the Divine: D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Acting for Love & Money: Connecting the craft to the industry by Paul Gleason (Goodreads Author), Gavin Levy (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Artistically Speaking: A 365 Day Journey into Unlocking Your Creativity and Imagination by Gavin Levy (Goodreads Author), Paul Gleason (Goodreads Author), Andrea Landis (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

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