3.80 avg rating — 12,173 ratings

""The ground beneath [my] feet, the hot garbage and concrete." from Mansard Roof."

3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings

""Take your handbook, it's no trick" from Oxford Comma.

The MLA Style Manual is the paramount reference guide for thriving writers, graduates, and
scholars. It is often cited to affirm proper etiquette in writing."

4.18 avg rating — 86,918 ratings

""Take your handbook, it's no trick" from Oxford Comma.

The book's original intent was to be used solely at Cornell University and was quipped as "the little book" on campus for both its literal size and succinct clarity."

3.92 avg rating — 242,055 ratings

""She took it from his lily-white hand" from A-Punk.

In the book, Aunt Chloe says, "Now Missis, do just look at them beautiful white hands of yourn, with long fingers and all a-sparkling with rings, like my white lillies when the dews on 'em" to her master's wife."

3.98 avg rating — 2,062,573 ratings

""Down to the pueblo huts of New Mexico" from A-Punk.

In which main character Bernard Max visits a 'Savage Reservation' in New Mexico, where funnily enough is populated with pueblo huts."

3.86 avg rating — 21,749 ratings

""As a young girl, Louis Vuitton, with your mother on a sandy lawn" from Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa.

Sets up a narrative in which some poor gadabout is about to sully the 'innocence' of a sheltered rich girl, ostensibly somewhere on Cape Cod."

3.44 avg rating — 6,450 ratings

""Is your bed made? Is your sweater on? Do you want to fuck like you know I do?" from Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa.

The narrator initiates phone sex foreplay with some oblique scene-setting, an art which reached its apotheosis in this book."

4.18 avg rating — 1,964 ratings

""Dress yourself in bleeding madras" from M79.

Vampire Weekend often draws from Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, a collection of short stories Ezra Koenig wrote in college which he bound with a madras cover meant as a callback to the Official Preppy Handbook."