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Denis Johnson, Award-Winning Novelist and Short Story Writer, Left Us With One Final — and Terrific — Book

Denis Johnson, Award-Winning Novelist and Short Story Writer, Left Us With One Final — and Terrific — Book | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Denis Johnson finished his 20th and last book, “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” just before his death. Christian Lorentzen on why the author of “Jesus’ Son” still haunts the culture, for good reason.
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Classic Appreciation: Thomas Pynchon’s Patriotic Lamentation - 'The Crying of Lot 49'

Classic Appreciation: Thomas Pynchon’s Patriotic Lamentation - 'The Crying of Lot 49' | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
"Shall I project a world?" * "Thomas Pynchon's second novel, The Crying of Lot 49, reads like an episode withheld from his first, the much-acclaimed V., published three years ago. Pynchon's technical virtuosity, his adaptations of the apocalyptic-satiric modes of Melville, Conrad, and Joyce, of Faulkner, Nathanael West
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Neglected Classics: William M. Kelley, The Lost Giant of American Literature, and His Astonishing Debut Novel 'A Different Drummer'

Neglected Classics: William M. Kelley, The Lost Giant of American Literature, and His Astonishing Debut Novel 'A Different Drummer' | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Kathryn Schulz writes about a major black novelist who made a remarkable début—and then disappeared.
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