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The Complete Plays by Joe Orton
John E. Branch Jr. is reading Mad Men, Mad World: New book collects essays in digital analysis of literature by Franco Moretti. FT article on him & Stanford Lit Lab at http://t.co/doWDhItt78

Website for Stanford Lit Lab is at http://litlab.stanford.edu/. Includes studies available as PDFs.
Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
recommended for: Kate Pastorek, Alex Polkinghorn
Crazy, fun, and short. I think the only tattoo I could tolerate would show a muted post horn. If you've read this novel, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Read in the 80s. Not going to attempt a serious review.
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"That sounds interesting. Must investigate. Thanks!"
The End of Night by Paul Bogard
The stars are going out. If we saw them vanish one by one while we watched (as happens at the end of an SF story), or the nighttime sky simply went black all at once, we’d notice. Probably, if we weren’t alarmed, we’d at least say, “Hey, bring those...more
John E. Branch Jr. wants to read
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Fear Of Flying by Erica Jong
Yes, I read it--and I liked it. Jong seemed (to me at the time anyway) a fairly inventive writer.
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Terry Pratchett
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
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