false 12 65 30 true 6077472 read 2 true 1349441 currently-reading 33 true 1349440 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72966311 The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century (Norton Anthology of English Literature (Paperback)) by Stephen Greenblatt
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64923430 to: In Search of Duende (New Directions Bibelot Series) by Federico García Lorca
The essay "Play and Theory of the Duende" in this book is one of the more important pieces on creativity that I've ever read. It's got the juice that's so often missing from conversations about "process" and it effortlessly combines the arts of dance and writing in a way I thought I was crazy for. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70769628 to: White Noise (Paperback) by Don DeLillo
As important, I think, as Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49. With the added emotional desperation of characters who want to feel love in a world that seems to preclude its existence. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70769374 to: The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library) by Thomas Pynchon
Pynchon's brain is labyrinthian and bizarre and I wish he'd sit across a table from me drinking absinthe and telling acid stories. This is one of the only books I've read that punches into the dilemma of "real" vs. "fiction" in our daily lives. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64923288 to: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Hardcover) by Milan Kundera
This is by far the most important novel about love and sex I've read since Lolita. I need it. I should read it every three years. And so should everyone else. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28364852 to: The Box Man: A Novel (Paperback) by Abe Kōbō
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21315036 to: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback) by Tom Wolfe
Long, but worth it, to fully understand how different the LSD culture was, when people had not yet formed their fear-mongering and angry prejudice. It's a rabid piece of writing that needs to be listened to, because it's Wolfe, and also it's a sad and gorgeous story about what happens when you try to get lots of people to really change their brains. ]]>