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“Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
― Paul Auster

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“The central problem of novel-writing is causality.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes on in you without your having to do anything about it). . .”
― John Ashbery, Three Poems

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“My witness is the empty sky.”
― Jack Kerouac

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“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
― Jack Kerouac

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Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives" — 132 members — last activity Oct 21, 2019 10:08AM
This group is designed to help readers share pleasure, pain, questions, answers, views, reviews and comments about "The Savage Detectives". ...more

Let's talk about Paul Auster — 136 members — last activity Mar 07, 2018 04:27PM
This group is for Austurites. Enough said.

Thomas Pynchon — 379 members — last activity Dec 22, 2025 05:33AM
This is a group for Thomas Pynchon readers, whether casual or fanatical. What's your favourite Pynchon book? What's your favourite Pynchon story? I've ...more

The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction — 197 members — last activity Jul 27, 2015 03:30AM
This new Rough Guide will make you a literary buff in the time it takes to say Jack Kerouac. Even if you already know your Hunter S Thompson from your ...more

CORMAC MCCARTHY THE MASTER OF WORDS — 204 members — last activity Jun 19, 2023 04:35AM
A group dedicated to the enjoyment of great writing, not to analysis, not to eloquence, but to the joy of reading words well put on paper

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