46 books
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4 voters
Listopia > Wendy Liu's votes on the list David Foster Wallace's Influences (71 Books)
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The Complete Stories
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"Laughing With Kafka"
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Amerika
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The Castle
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The Trial
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Notes from Underground
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"Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky"
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Crime and Punishment
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"Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky"
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The Brothers Karamazov
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"Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky"
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The Idiot
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"Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky"
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Gravity’s Rainbow
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"Interview with Hugh Kennedy and Geoffrey Polk, 1993: "Maybe Gravity's Rainbow is a better book [than DeLillo's books]""
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The Road
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"Interview with Didier Jacob: "I admire Cormac McCarthy's ability to use antiquated, ornate English in ways that don't seem silly or stilted""
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Bloodshed and Three Novellas
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"Interview with Mark Shechner in 2000: "Her Bloodshed and Three Novellas, if you haven't read it, is fine.""
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The Rainbow Stories
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"Interview with Mark Shechner in 2000: "He has a book of stories called The Rainbow Stories that will raise hair on parts of your body that don't have hair.""
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The Incognito Lounge: And Other Poems
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"Interview with Mark Shechner in 2000: "though more of his earlier work in poetry than the later work""
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Gain
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"Interview with Mark Shechner in 2000 (author only)"
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Arrogance
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"Interview with Mark Shechner in 2000 (author only)"
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "The person I'm highest on right now is George Saunders, whose book Civilwarland in Bad Decline just came, and is well worth a great deal of attention""
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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"Interview with Tom Scocca in 1998 (author only)"
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For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies
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"Interview with Tom Scocca in 1998 (author only)"
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Stop-Time
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"Interview with Tom Scocca in 1998: "Frank Conroy's first book""
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rated it 4 stars
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This Boy's Life
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"Interview with Tom Scocca in 1998"
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rated it 4 stars
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A Mathematician's Apology
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"Interview with Tom Scocca in 1998"
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The Recognitions
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"Interview with Donn Fry, 1997 (author only)"
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rated it 5 stars
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Menexenus
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Socrates' funeral oration""
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John Donne's Poetry
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "the poetry of John Donne""
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The English Poems Of Richard Crashaw
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "the poetry of Richard Crashaw""
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The Complete Poems
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Keats' shorter stuff""
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Essays and Aphorisms
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996 (author only)"
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on Method""
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Kant's Krolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics though although the translations are all terrible""
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience""
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Wittgenstein's Tractatus""
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man""
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In Our Time
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Hemingway--particularly the ital [sic?] stuff in In Our Time, where you just go oomph!""
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The Complete Stories
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996 (author only)"
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Possession
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996 (author only)"
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Levitation: Five Fictions
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Cynthia Ozick--the stories, especially one called Levitations""
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Sixty Stories
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Donald Barthelme, especially a story called The Balloon, which is the first story I ever read hat made me want to be a writer""
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Raymond Carver's best stuff--the really famous stuff""
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rated it 4 stars
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East of Eden
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Steinbeck when he's not beating his drum""
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rated it 5 stars
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Of Mice and Men
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Steinbeck when he's not beating his drum""
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Moby Dick""
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The Great Gatsby
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "The Great Gatsby""
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Collected Poems
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "And, my God, there's poetry. Probably Larkin more than anyone else""
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rated it 5 stars
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The Wild Iris
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996 (author only)"
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Selected Poems
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996 (author only)"
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The Corrections
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996 (author only)"
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Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996 (author only)"
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Middlesex
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996 (author only)"
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The Ice Storm
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996 (author only)"
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The Kiss
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The Devil's Tour
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Mary Karr, who's best known for The Liar's Cub but is also a poet and I think the best female poet under fifty""
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How to Leave a Country
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996 (author only)"
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The Jade Cabinet
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996 (author only)"
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Ava
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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Carole Masa's Ava is just--a friend of mine read it and said it gave him an erection of the heart""
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Libra
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"Interview with Larry McCaffery, 1993: "My idea in Westward was to do with metafiction what Moore's poetry or like DeLillo's Libra had done with other mediated myths""
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Anna Karenina
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"Interview with Hugh Kennedy and Geoffrey Polk, 1993: "I'm the only postmodernist you'll ever meet who absolutely worships Leo Tolstoy""
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War and Peace
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"Interview with Hugh Kennedy and Geoffrey Polk, 1993: "I'm the only postmodernist you'll ever meet who absolutely worships Leo Tolstoy""
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
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"Interview with Larry McCaffery, 1993: "I hear the click in most Nabokov""
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rated it 5 stars
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Pale Fire
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"Interview with Larry McCaffery, 1993: "I hear the click in most Nabokov""
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The Centaur
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"Interview with Hugh Kennedy and Geoffrey Polk, 1993: "I really like the early John Updike--The Poorhouse Fair, Of the Farm, The Centaur, just in terms of sheer fucking beautiful writing""
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Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
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"Interview with Hugh Kennedy and Geoffrey Polk, 1993 (author only)"
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Hopscotch
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"Interview with Hugh Kennedy and Geoffrey Polk, 1993 (author only)"
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My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
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"Reviewed somewhere in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never do Again"
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rated it 4 stars
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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"Author mentioned as an influence in introduction to Conversations with David Foster Wallace"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Screwtape Letters
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The Crying of Lot 49
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"Every Love Story is a Ghost Story (2012) p.31"
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Dissemination
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"Every Love Story is a Ghost Story (2012) p.38"
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Practically Painless English
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"A grammar book by his mother that he would consult periodically"
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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"Every Love Story is a Ghost Story (2012) p.312"
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The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
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"David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books (2017) p.171"
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The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
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"one of the mainstays of his personal library apparently (Unspeakable Failures p98)"
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