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Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time
Eric Karpeles
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Andreas Mayor, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, Richard Howard
Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright
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Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time
Eric Karpeles
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Andreas Mayor, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright, Richard Howard
Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright
April 2013
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The True Deceiver (New York Review Books Classics)
Jansson's prose is magisterial, as cold and icy as the winter setting; the pace is also ingenious which mimics the slow melti...
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Dead Souls (New York Review Books Classics)
I need to read the new translation of this by Donald Rayfield, published by NYRB.
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Parallel Stories: A Novel
For a more detailed review of Parallel Stories, I’ll insist that you read Tod’s review here on Goodreads and Scott Esposito’s...
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In the Orchard, the Swallows
Abandoned. I am obviously a fan of poetic novels, so I was eager to read this when reviews cited its poetic style and how psy...
March 2013
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Spurious: A Novel
If you:...read too much Heidegger, Spinoza, and Kierkegaard in your formative years which then caused all experiences from pu...
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Spurious
Lars Iyer
March 2013
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Battleborn
Claire Vaye Watkins
March 2013
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Pitch Dark (Nyrb Classics)
Review published in 3:AM Magazine: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/century-of-dislocation/Do I need to stylize it, then, or ca...
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Pitch Dark
Renata Adler, Guy Trebay
March 2013
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The Dead
"Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"
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The Dead
James Joyce
March 2013
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Open City: A Novel
open city n. an undefended city; spec. a city declared to be unfortified and undefended and so, by international law, exempt ...
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Open City: A Novel
Teju Cole
March 2013
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A Month in the Country
Michael Holroyd, J.L. Carr
March 2013
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Tenth of December
George Saunders
February 2013
28
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Murder-Go-Round: Thirteen at Dinner, The A.B.C. Murders, Funerals are Fatal
Agatha Christie
February 2013
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Speedboat (Nyrb Classics)
Review published in 3:AM Magazine: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/century-of-dislocation/Do I need to stylize it, then, or ca...
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Speedboat
Renata Adler, Guy Trebay
February 2013
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Landscape with Landscape
Gerald Murnane
February 2013
10
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Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
(There are no "spoilers," I promise.)Combray"A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the sequence of the hours, the order...
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Swann's Way
Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis
February 2013
5
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Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932
Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton
February 2013
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The Beast in the Jungle
James is my second favorite writer, after Proust, of course. “The Beast in the Jungle” is probably his most masterful tale—no...
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The Beast in the Jungle
Henry James
January 2013
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AnimalInside (The Cahiers)
Yet another beautiful Cahier in the series by Sylph Editions. Max Neumann is well known for his often eerie portraits that e...
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AnimalInside (The Cahiers)
László Krasznahorkai
January 2013
18
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A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser
My piece on Walser and Jelinek published in The Quarterly Conversation: http://quarterlyconversation.com/walking-with-walserW...
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A Little Ramble: In the Spirit of Robert Walser
Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton, Susan Bernofsky, Tom Whalen
January 2013
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Strange Cowboy: Lincoln Dahl Turns Five
It’s work, remembering.What a brilliant novel by an erudite, unique prose stylist. Sam Michel’s prose is truly the star here,...
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Strange Cowboy: Lincoln Dahl Turns Five
Sam Michel
January 2013
03
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Dusk and Other Stories (Modern Library Paperbacks)
I should preface this by saying that I’m not typically a big fan of contemporary short stories: I’m certainly not one to go i...
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Dusk and Other Stories
James Salter, Philip Gourevitch
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