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The Complete Stories

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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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The Brothers Karamazov

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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 O...

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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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Arrogance

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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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For Keeps: 30 Years at the ...

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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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This Boy's Life

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"Interview with Tom Scocca in 1998"
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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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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 Richar...

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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 Med...

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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 M...

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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 ...

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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...

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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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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 ...

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"Interview with Laura Miller, 1996: "Raymond Carver's best stuff--the really famous stuff""
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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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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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The Wild Iris

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Selected Poems

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The Corrections

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Elect Mr. Robinson for a Be...

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Middlesex

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The Ice Storm

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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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The Jade Cabinet

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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 Nab...

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"Interview with Larry McCaffery, 1993: "I hear the click in most Nabokov""
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Pale Fire

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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...

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Hopscotch

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My Cousin, My Gastroenterol...

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The Myth of Sisyphus and Ot...

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The Screwtape Letters

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The Crying of Lot 49

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Dissemination

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Practically Painless English

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Ete...

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The User Illusion: Cutting ...

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"David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books (2017) p.171"
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The Gift: Imagination and t...

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