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The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story by Matt Bondurant
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster
La Bête Humaine (Penguin Classics) by Émile Zola
State of the Nation by John dos Passos
Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace by Bill Buford (ed)
Horace Greeley Voice of the People by William Harlan Hale
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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About my library90% American Literature. It all started with Buffalo Bill Annuals as a child. Just started uploading it, March '09
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Chris
posted by cmtusa at 9:31 am (EST) on Sep 4, 2009
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad there's someone out there enjoying my site. If there are more, they're not telling me about it very often. Thanks for that too. Take care,
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posted by Smethers at 12:35 pm (EST) on Jul 17, 2009
Do you recall, and/or have your seen the piece "The Anatomy of Love" - it is shocking is so many ways.
A few brief pages - and yet such a wonder.
If you haven't seen it - let me know and I will try to track it down for you.
posted by DavidBarry at 4:02 am (EST) on Jul 1, 2009
He stole my heart with "Giovanni's Room" - it is the first piece of gay fiction I came across that was also beautiful literature.
University starts for me again shortly, so my reading time (of non technical books) is limited. But there is always time for just one more.
posted by DavidBarry at 4:00 am (EST) on Jul 1, 2009
Our libraries seem to overlap in good proportion.
I see Martha Gellhorn represented. Leaving a wealthy home at 21 with almost no money - and making her way in the world. It was Granta that introduced me to her and I am a fan.
It was the lynching reportage that first hooked me - and years later - I find that it did not happen quite as she described it.
But an affair with Ernest - hiding away on a hospital ship for the Normandy landings - and then him betraying her - betraying her writing.
What a woman.
David
posted by DavidBarry at 7:39 am (EST) on Jun 17, 2009