Ethan Essner

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Ethan Essner

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Ethan’s favorite books

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Stoner by John Williams

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

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Butcher's Crossing

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Butcher's Crossing

by John Williams

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Thomas Pynchon

“I used to worry about you, Zoyd, but I see I can rest easy now the Vaseline of youth has been cleared from your life’s lens by the mild detergent solution of time, in its passing. . . ”
― Thomas Pynchon, Vineland

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Fiction, Historical fiction, History, and Philosophy

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