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RODNEY PHILLIPS
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Poetry, Queer, Contemporary lit
About Me
RETIRED LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION AND CURATOR---New York Public library research libraries
Author A Secret Location on the Lower east side---
Hand of the Poet; Exit Moonshine
NYC for 35 years
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Books to die for : the world's greatest mystery writers on the world's greatest mystery novels by John Connolly
Days Without End: A Novel by Sebastian Barry
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
The Librarianist: A Novel by Patrick deWitt
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
The New Life: A Novel by Tom Crewe
My Friends: A Novel by Hisham Matar
New American Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ben Marcus
The Book of Other People by Zadie Smith
Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
Demon Copperhead: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Donna Tartt
Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
Song of Achilles, The by Madeline Miller
Our Strangers by Lydia Davis
July, July by Tim O'Brien
Treasure Island: 120 Illustrations by Robert Louis Stevenson
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel by George Saunders
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Confessions of Nat Turner: Pulitzer Prize Winner by William Styron
The Lincoln Highway: A Novel by Amor Towles
Restoration by Rose Tremain
Empire: A Novel by Gore Vidal
The Templars' Last Secret: A Mystery of the French Countryside (Bruno, Chief of Police Series) by Martin Walker
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd
States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America by Edmund White
Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel by Edmund White
The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Augustus (New York Review Books Classics) by John Williams
Butcher's Crossing (New York Review Books Classics) by John Williams
How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel by C Pam Zhang
There There by Tommy Orange
Birds of America: Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Lorrie Moore
Like Life by Lorrie Moore
To the Lighthouse by Virginia; Gilbert Phelps (Intro. ) & Maryclare Foa (Illust. ) Woolf
The Voyage Out (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Virginia Woolf
Pathetic Literature by Eileen Myles
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Searcher: A Novel by Tana French
A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri
The Fraud: A Novel by Zadie Smith
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert (New York Review Books Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry: From Nerval to Valery in English Translation by Angel Flores
An Anthology of French Poetry from Nerval to Valery in English Translation with French Originals by Angel Flores
The Marriage Plot: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
Philadelphia Fire: A Novel by John Edgar Wideman
The Bee Sting: A Novel by Paul Murray
Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Playground: A Novel by Richard Powers
The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
Our Evenings: A Novel by Alan Hollinghurst
Don Quixote Deluxe Edition (Art of the Story) by Miguel de Cervantes Edith Grossman(1979-10-25) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl
Damascus Gate by Robert Stone
Can You Forgive Her? (Penguin Classics) by Anthony Trollope
The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition [May 15, 2018] Graves, Robert by Robert Graves
The God of Small Things: A Novel by Arundhati Roy
How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel by James Kelman
Pages from the Goncourt Journals (New York Review Books Classics) by Edmond de Goncourt
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories by Daniel Halpern
Four Quartets: A Poem by T. S. Eliot
Frederick Seidel Selected Poems by Frederick Seidel
The Portable Shakespeare (Penguin Classics) by William Shakespeare
The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene
The Waterworks: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
The Round House: A Novel by Louise Erdrich
Trouble Is My Business And Other Stories (Folio Society) by Raymond Chandler
Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Salman Rushdie
Dubliners: Penguin Classics by James Joyce
Caledonian Road: A Novel by Andrew O'Hagan
Journey To Ithaca by Anita Desai
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl (7-Sep-2012) Paperback by Nancy Pearl
The Heart of the Matter: Graham Greene (Vintage classics) by Graham Greene
A Gun for Sale: An Entertainment (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
A Good School by Richard Yates
Cold Spring Harbor: Richard Yates by Richard Yates
Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
Lunch (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by D. A. Powell
Tea (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by D. A. Powell
The Sparsholt Affair: A novel by Alan Hollinghurst
More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl
Rosamond Lehmann in Vegas by Nick Hornby
In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John M. Marzluff
The Dying Grass: A Novel of the Nez Perce War (Seven Dreams: a Book of North American Landscapes, 5) by William T. Vollmann
Ten Years in the Tub by Nick Hornby
Stuff I've Been Reading by Hornby Nick
Eminent Victorians (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by Lytton Strachey
You Dreamed of Empires: A Novel by Alvaro Enrigue
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt: Fourteen Months of Massively Witty Adventures in Reading Chronicled by the National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism by Nick Hornby
ILL LIT: Selected & New Poems (Volume 7) by Franz Wright
American Studies by Menand, Louis (2003) Paperback by Louis Menand
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
The Women: A Novel by T.C. Boyle
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse
Yeats: The Man and the Masks by Richard Ellmann
Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor
The Unhinged World of Glen Baxter: Collected Works by Glen Baxter
American Studies by Louis Menand
The Ransom of Russian Art by John McPhee
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White
Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4) by John McPhee
Light in August by William Faulkner
Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward W. Said
Julian: A Novel by Gore Vidal
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
Complete Poems by C.P. Cavafy
Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris by Richard Davenport-Hines
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