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Cannonball

by Joseph McElroy

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Poems, 1962-2012

by Louise Glück

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Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann

by Ingeborg Bachmann

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“Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor.”
― Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights

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“Now are the woods all black,
But still the sky is blue.”
― Marcel Proust , Swann’s Way

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“Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World

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“Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

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“I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology of such an individual. And yet the only thing about him that has remained is my memory of his ugliness.”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

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This is a group for Thomas Pynchon readers, whether casual or fanatical. What's your favourite Pynchon book? What's your favourite Pynchon story? I've ...more

Madeleine Dunkers — 34 members — last activity Apr 03, 2019 03:37PM
(proto-)Modernism: Proust, Joyce, Musil (& Cervantes, & Sterne &...) et al est'd August 2017 by ATJG, esq. ...more

Women and Men — 234 members — last activity Jul 07, 2026 11:24PM
Women and Men began as a reading group for Joseph McElroy's masterpiece. It has developed into All Things McElroy. We have chapter threads for discuss ...more