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Introduction
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George Plimpton |
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Letter to an Editor
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William Styron |
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xiii |
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Heartbreak
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Terrific Mother
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Lorrie Moore |
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Elms
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Jonathan Galassi |
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The Fine Art of Sighing
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Bernard Cooper |
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Intensive Care
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Heather McHugh |
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Careful
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Raymond Carver |
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To Urania
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Joseph Brodsky |
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Madness
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Zelda: A Worksheet
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Zelda Fitzgerald |
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Lunar Caustic
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Malcolm Lowry |
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Delirium
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Barbara Hamby |
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Autobiography
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Susan Mitchell |
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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
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Bobbie Ann Mason |
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The Ascent of Mount Carmel
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Robert Stone |
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Sex
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Alice
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Donald Barthelme |
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Rimininny!
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S.X. Rosenstock |
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Two Cunts in Paris
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John Updike |
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The Art of Fiction CLXIII
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William T. Vollmann |
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The Art of Fiction CLXXII
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Louis Begley |
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The Art of Fiction XL
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Vladimir Nabokov |
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103 |
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With a Potpourri Down Under
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Richard Howard |
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104 |
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Le Jet d'Eau
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Anthony Hecht |
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106 |
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The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven
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Rick Moody |
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108 |
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The Art of Fiction CXXXIV
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Toni Morrison |
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The Art of Fiction CXXI
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Margaret Atwood |
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125 |
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A Liberal Education
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Mordecai Richler |
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126 |
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Love
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Little Expressionless Animals
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David Foster Wallace |
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Cyprian
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Rosanna Warren |
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167 |
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The Art of Poetry LXXI
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Ted Hughes |
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169 |
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The Art of Fiction CL
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Jeanette Winterson |
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171 |
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The Art of Fiction CV
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Edmund White |
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172 |
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To the French Language
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Kenneth Koch |
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173 |
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Los Dos Rancheros
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Charlie Smith |
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175 |
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Pearls
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Michael Cunningham |
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177 |
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Everything
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A.R. Ammons |
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Betrayal
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Lorena
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Lucille Clifton |
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187 |
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Migraine Sonnets
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Marilyn Hacker |
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188 |
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Chez Lambert
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Jonathan Franzen |
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190 |
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You Must Relax!
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Joanna Scott |
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199 |
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Marriage Song
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Beth Gylys |
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213 |
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The Beet Queen
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Louise Erdrich |
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214 |
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Outsiders
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Tugboat Syndrome
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Jonathan Lethem |
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229 |
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The Art of Fiction XVII
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Truman Capote |
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250 |
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Against Winter
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Charles Simic |
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252 |
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Thirty-three
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Adrienne Rich |
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253 |
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Funes the Memorious
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Jorge Luis Borges |
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255 |
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Spaceships Have Landed
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Alice Munro |
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261 |
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Intoxication
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It's Six A.M., Do You Know Where You Are?
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Jay McInerney |
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285 |
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Edmund Wilson
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Mary McCarthy |
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292 |
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The Guest
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Stanley Elkin |
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294 |
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The Art of Fiction XII
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William Faulkner |
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319 |
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The Art of Fiction XCIII
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John Irving |
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320 |
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The Art of Journalism I
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Hunter S. Thompson |
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321 |
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The Art of Fiction XXXVI
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William Burroughs |
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323 |
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The Basketball Diaries
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Jim Carroll |
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325 |
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Car-Crash While Hitchhiking
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Denis Johnson |
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327 |
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War
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Last Comes the Raven
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Italo Calvino |
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335 |
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Blind White Fish in Belgium
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Paul West |
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340 |
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The Art of Fiction CXL
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Primo Levi |
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354 |
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The Art of Poetry V
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Ezra Pound |
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356 |
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The Art of Fiction LXIV
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Kurt Vonnegut |
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358 |
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The Ends
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Peter Ho Davies |
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359 |
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Pearl Harbor
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Frank O'Hara |
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362 |
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Conquerer
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W.S. Merwin |
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363 |
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The Art of Theater III
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Harold Pinter |
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364 |
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The Dead Soldier's Talk
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Ha Jin |
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365 |
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The Art of Fiction CXLIX
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John Le Carre |
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367 |
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The Art of Fiction CXLIII
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Susan Sontag |
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368 |
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Terminus
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Nicholas Christopher |
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370 |
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A Prayer to the Sun
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Geoffrey Hill |
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373 |
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Whimsy
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How to Travel with a Salmon
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Umberto Eco |
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377 |
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The Admonitory Hippopotamus: or, Angelica and Sneezby
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Edward Gorey |
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379 |
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Milking the Moon
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Eugene Walter |
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382 |
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Pomework: An Exercise in Occasional Poetry
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Various |
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385 |
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The Plato Club
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James MerrillDavid Jackson |
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411 |
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Horrors
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The Little Girl
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Grace Paley |
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421 |
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Lackawanna
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Galway Kinnell |
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426 |
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The Art of Fiction CLXXIII
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Ian McEwan |
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429 |
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Heat
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Joyce Carol Oates |
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430 |
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Home and Away
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Rachel Wetzsteon |
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440 |
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The Broom: The New Wife's Tale
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Charles Tomlinson |
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445 |
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Ailanthus
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Vijay Seshadri |
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446 |
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In the Country of Last Things
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Paul Auster |
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448 |
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God
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The Conversion of the Jews
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Philip Roth |
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467 |
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The Fallacy of Thinking Flesh Is Flesh
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Pattiann Rogers |
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480 |
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A Roadside Resurrection
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Larry Brown |
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482 |
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The Breath
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Robert Bly |
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501 |
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The Saint
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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502 |
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Memory Cave
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Yusef Komunyakaa |
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512 |
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Snakes
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Susan Power |
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514 |
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Death
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City Midnight Junk Strains
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Allen Ginsberg |
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543 |
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The Virgin Suicides
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Jeffrey Eugenides |
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546 |
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Picnic, Lightning
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Billy Collins |
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561 |
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The Art of Poetry LXXV
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Seamus Heaney |
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563 |
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The Art of Fiction CLXVII
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A.S. Byatt |
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564 |
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Letter After an Estrangement
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Priscilla Becker |
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566 |
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Aqua Boulevard
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Maile Meloy |
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567 |
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The Saving
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Robert Pinsky |
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573 |
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Sacred Heart
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Thom Gunn |
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575 |
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Return
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John Montague |
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577 |
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A Work in Progress
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Norman Mailer |
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578 |
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Dinner
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In the Belly of the Cat
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Daniel S. Libman |
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585 |
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Oysters
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Gary Snyder |
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595 |
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The Art of Fiction XLVIII
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Anthony Burgess |
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596 |
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Non-Vegetarian
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Marie Ponsot |
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597 |
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The Devil's Larder
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Jim Crace |
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598 |
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Baseball
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Batting Against Castro
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Jim Shepard |
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603 |
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Curt Flood
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Anne Waldman |
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616 |
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The Third Inning
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Donald Hall |
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619 |
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The Hector Quesadilla Story
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T. Coraghessan Boyle |
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622 |
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Travels
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The Mexican Girl
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Jack Kerouac |
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635 |
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Exodus
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Robyn Selman |
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652 |
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Rostropovich at Checkpoint Charlie, November 11, 1989
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Joel Brouwer |
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660 |
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TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2)
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Anne Carson |
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662 |
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A History of Paisley
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Agha Shahid Ali |
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664 |
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The Interior of North Dakota
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Barry Lopez |
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667 |
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The Art of Fiction LXXVIII
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James Baldwin |
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674 |
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The Art of Poetry XXX
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Philip Larkin |
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676 |
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The Art of Fiction CLIV
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V.S. Naipaul |
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677 |
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Her Real Name
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Charles D'Ambrosio |
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679 |
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The Art of Writing
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Musica Reservata
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John Ashbery |
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703 |
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At a Reading
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J.D. McClatchy |
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705 |
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Making It
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John Hollander |
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708 |
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Correspondence
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Elizabeth BishopMay Swenson |
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710 |
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On the Literary Life
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John Cheever |
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715 |
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The Art of Fiction CLXXIII
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Ian McEwan |
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718 |
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The Art of Fiction LXIX
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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719 |
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The Art of Fiction CXX
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Mario Vargas Llosa |
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720 |
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The Art of Theater V
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Tennessee Williams |
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721 |
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A Radio Interview
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Gertrude Stein |
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722 |
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The Art of Poetry XLII
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Octavio Paz |
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723 |
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The Art of Fiction XCIV
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E.L. Doctorow |
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724 |
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The Art of Fiction LI
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Joseph Heller |
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725 |
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The Art of Fiction CXXX
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Italo Calvino |
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726 |
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The Art of Fiction CXXXIX
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Chinua Achebe |
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727 |
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The Art of Fiction LXVII
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Paul Bowles |
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728 |
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The Art of Fiction XLIII
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John Updike |
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729 |
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The Art of Fiction CVI
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John Mortimer |
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730 |
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The Art of Poetry X
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Robert Creeley |
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731 |
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The Art of Fiction XVI
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Thornton Wilder |
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732 |
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The Art of Theater XII
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Wendy Wasserstein |
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733 |
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The Art of Fiction XXI
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Ernest Hemingway |
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734 |
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The Art of Fiction CXXXIII
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James Salter |
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735 |
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The Art of Fiction CXXXV
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Don DeLillo |
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736 |
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The Art of Fiction XXVIII
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Henry Miller |
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737 |
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The Art of Fiction XII
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William Faulkner |
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738 |
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The Art of Fiction LXXXVII
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Elizabeth Hardwick |
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739 |
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The Contributors
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740 |
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Acknowledgments
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