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The Art of the Novella: Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Originally published in 1957, Saul Bellow’s Seize the Day is considered one of the twentieth century’s finest works of fiction. It chronicles a single day in the life of one Tommy Wilhelm, a failed middle-aged actor, living on a precipice. … Continue reading
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Snowbound
In honor of Snowmageddon and Snowmageddon Part Deux, here are some books to read while snowbound: Alive Piers Paul Read. Harper Perennial 2005, Paperback, 398 pages, $8.35 Stranded in the Andes, cannibalism ensues. Desperate Passage Ethan Rarick. Oxford University Press, … Continue reading
Into the Abyss
When Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City was published in 1984, it took the publishing world by storm and ushered in a new era of edgy young writers. Bright Lights, Big City chronicles the emotional, psychological, and spiritual downward spiral … Continue reading
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Hangover Theory of Economics
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy– they smashed up things and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had … Continue reading
Doomed Couples
In 1960, Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus won the National Book Award. The title story of the collection is a novella that tells of the doomed romance between Neil Klugman, a recent class college graduate who works in a library and … Continue reading
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