Roman A Clef


The Bell Jar
On the Road
Animal Farm
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
The Sun Also Rises
The Dharma Bums
The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
Heartburn
Black Water
Answered Prayers
Tender Is the Night
Postcards from the Edge
Junky
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Big Sur
Arthur Conan Doyle
You have been good enough to allude to me in one of your recent lucubrations," he said, shaking the paper at me. "It was in the course of your somewhat fatuous remarks concerning the recent Saurian remains discovered in the Solenhofen Slates. You began a paragraph with the words: 'Professor G.E. Challenger, who is among our greatest living scientists_'" "Well, sir?" I asked. "Why these invidious qualifications and limitations? Perhaps you can mention who these other predominant scientific men ...more
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine

Steve Yarbrough
She prefers to think she became a better woman. But she has hurt her sister, and she knows it. The fact that she did it to save herself is no excuse. Nor is the knowledge that she's only done what writers do. A novelist is just a cottonmouth with a laptop. ...more
Steve Yarbrough, Stay Gone Days

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