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13, Ara
     : Drawers and Booths

ABISH, Walter
     :  Return Trip to Alphabetical Africa

ACIMAN, Alexander
     :  Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less

ALLEN, Matt
     :  Fucking Frankenstein

AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION
     :  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed.

ANSON, Jay
     :  666

AUSTIN, Alex
     :  Nakamura Reality
     :  The Red Album of Asbury Park Remixed

BALLARD, J.G.
     :  Crash
     :  "Escapement"
     :  Getting Attuned to the Surreality of "Prima Belladonna"
     :  No Exit — "The Concentration City" of J.G. Ballard's

BAUBY, Jean-Dominique
     :  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

BINGHAM, Robert
     :  Lightning on the Sun

BLACK, Dustin Lance
     :  I've Got Milk, the DVD, starring Sean Penn

BLUMENSTEIN, Robert Paul
     :  Snapping the String

BORGES (ed.), Jorge Luis
     :  The Book of Fantasy

BOURJAILY, Vance
     :  Vance Bourjaily's autograph (The End of My Life)

BRIGHTMAN, Dr. Alan
     :  Disabilityland

BRINSON, Joseph       
     :  Guest Post—review of Play It As It Lays
     :  The Opera of Trees

BRODKEY, Harold
     :  First Love and Other Sorrows (Including a Sorrow of Mine) 

BURGESS, Anthony
     :  99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939, A Personal Choice

BURNETT (ed.), Whit
     :  105 Greatest Living Authors Present the World's Best: Stories, Humor, Drama, Biography, History, Essays, Poetry

BURNS, David D.
     :  Ten Days to Self-Esteem

CARPENTER, Don
     :  Hard Rain Falling
     :  Obscure (& Awesome) Books Unearthed from the Upstairs Dollar Section of The Last Bookstore in Historic, Art Deco Era, Downtown Los Angeles, Part I: A Couple of Comedians

CARROCK, Solla
     :  The Things That Always Were

CHRISTOPHER, Paul
     :  The Lucifer Gospel

CLARKE, Arthur C.
     :  2001: A Space Odyssey
     :  2061: Odyssey Three

CODY, Paul
     :  So Far Gone: A Novel

COLEMAN, Wanda
     :  Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems & Stories, 1968 - 1986

COMFORT (ed.), Alex
     :  The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Lovemaking

CULLEN, Dave
     :  Columbine

DANIELEWSKI, Mark Z.
     :  My Unpredictable Love-Hate Relationship with Mark Z. Danielewski 
     :  Only Revolutions

DAVIDSON, Andrew
     :  Brief Blip About The Gargoyle

DAVIS, Lydia
     :  The Collected Stories

DAVIS, Stephen
     :  Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga

DELLILO, Don
     :  The Body Artist

DICKEY, James
     :  A Free Associating Stream of Consciousness-type Experiment Down a Georgia Creek in Describing Dickey's Deliverance

DIDION, Joan
     :  A Book of Common Prayer
     :  Play It As It Lays (guest post)
     :  Telling Stories by One of Living Literature's Sharpest Storytellers
     :  The Year of Magical Thinking

DOCTOROW, E.L.
     :  On the Novels of E. L. Doctorow, and on Finding His Little Known Play Drinks Before Dinner

DORN, Cullen
     :  The Hierophant of 100th Street

DOWELL, Coleman
     :  Preliminary Impressions of One of the Children is Crying

EASTLAKE, William
     :  A Child's Garden of Verses for the Revolution

ELKIN, Stanley
     :  Stanley Elkin "At The Academy Awards" from Pieces of Soap: Essays

ELLIS, Bret Easton
     :  Imperial Bedrooms
     :  In Belated Defense of Lunar Park
     :  Less Than Zero

ERICKSON, Steve
     :  Days Between Stations: In Brief
     :  My Two Sentences on Four Novels by Steve Erickson
     :  Past the Point of Rubicon Beach
     :  Random Observations Regarding the "Secret Street" in Days Between Stations
     :  Steve Erickson's Inscription to Frances Kroll Ring in The Sea Came in at Midnight

EVANS, Justin
     :  A Good and Happy Child

EXLEY (ed.), Helen
     :  The Wicked Little Book of Quotes

FARABE Jr., Charles R.
     :  Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite

FEDERMAN, Raymond
     :  E-mail Correspondence with Raymond Federman
     :  Smiles on Washington Square
     :  The Voice in the Closet

FINLEY, Karen
     :  Shock Treatment

FITZGERALD, Penelope
     :  The Bookshop

FORD, Ford Madox
     :  The Good and The Virtuous as Differentiated by Ford and Henry James in Portraits from Life

FOWLES, John
     :  The Magus

FREEMAN, Charlotte McGuinn
     :  Place Last Seen

GADDIS, William
     :  JR
     :  Minimalist Retrospective on a Maximalist Writer, William Gaddis

GASS, William H.
     :  On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry

GERRITTSEN, Tess
     :  The Mephisto Club

GHIGLIERI, Michael P.
     :  Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite  
     :  Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon

GHIMIRE, Jhamak Kumari
     :  Hope for Nepal; or, Jeevan Kada ki Phool ("Life is a Flower or a Thorn")

GOODMAN, Carol
     :  The Lake of Dead Languages

GREENAN, Russell H.
     :  Briefly Scrutinizing the First Sentence of It Happened in Boston?

HALL, Manly P.
     :  The Secret Teachings of All Ages

HALL, Sarah
     :  Daughter's of the North

HANDKE, Peter
     :  Incomplete Yammering on Some Provocative Plays, Including Peter Handke's Offending the Audience

HAQ, Hina
     :  Sadika's Way: A Novel of Pakistan and America

HARSCH, Rick
     :  Arjun & the Good Snake...

HEMINGWAY, Ernest
     :  Bare Bones Abstract on The Sun Also Rises  
     :  Complete Poems

HERBERT, Frank
     :  Destination: Void
     :  The Dragon in the Sea
     :  Do You Have The Dune Encyclopedia? . . . I Do!!!

HILTON, James
     :  Freddie Mercury, Highlander, and Lost Horizon

HILTON, Paris
     :  Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue in Chic Peek Behind the Pose

HOFFMANN, E.T.A.
     :  The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

HOLBORN, Hannah
     :  Fierce: Stories and a Novella
     :  Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs

HOLLANDER, John
     :  As Taught by Paul Frizler; or, Swan and Shadow by John Hollander

HOMES, A.M.
     :  Jack
     :  The Mistress' Daughter: A Memoir
     :  The Safety of Objects
     :  Things You Should Know: A Collection of Stories

ISHIGURO, Kazuo 
     :  Never Let Me Go

JACOBSON, Jessica
     :  Roaming Kyrgyzstan: Beyond the Tourist Track

JAEGGY, Fleur
     :  Last Vanities

JOHNSON, Denis
     :  Angels  
     :  Jesus' Son: Stories
     :  Train Dreams

JOSEPH, Terri Brint
     :  Meeting Terri Inside a Book; or, when a Book Lures You, Listen!

JOYCE, James
     :  Coming of Age with James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
     :  Excerpts of Early Optimism: Taking Notes on the First Chapters of Ulysses, 03.09
     :  Finnegans Wake Fake 
     :  Reading Ulysses
     :  She Said He Said About Ulysses
     :  Some Second Thoughts on Ulysses
     :  Ulysses ... Ick, it Makes Me Sick!  

KADREY, Richard
     :  Kamikaze L'amour
     :  Metrophage

KAHRL, William L.
     :  Not Exactly Water and Power

KAMATA (ed.), Suzanne
     :  Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs

KAVAN, Anna
     :  Asylum Piece and Other Stories
     :  'Tis the Season for Ice

KENNER, Robert
     :  Food, Inc., a summary outline

KING, Stephen
     :  All Twenty-One of Stephen King's Novels I've Read so far (or Attempted to Read) from Worst to Best
     :  'Salem's Lot

KINNELL, Galway
     :  Black Light: A Novel

KLISE, Thomas S.
     :  Finding The Last Western at a Thrift Store for $1.49

KOSINSKI, Jerzy
     :  These Disturbing Steps of Jerzy Kosinski's

KOTZWINKLE, William   
     :  The Fan Man  
     :  Walter the Farting Dog

LADD, Jim
     :  Jim Ladd's Autograph; Radio Waves: Life and Revolution on the F.M. Dial

LARGO, Michael
     :  Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die

LARSON, Bob
     :  Rock: Practical Help for Those Who Listen to the Words and don't Like What They Hear

LAUREN, Jillian
     :  Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

LEWIS, Wyndham
     :  The Apes of God

LITTLE, Paul E.
     :  Know What You Believe

LINDSEY, Hal
     :  The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon

LONG, Jeff
     :  The Descent

LUFT, Lya
     :  The Island of the Dead

LUKAS, Christopher
     :  Blue Genes: A Memoir of Loss and Survival

LUSTIG, Arnošt
     :  Arnošt Lustig's autograph (Lovely Green Eyes)

LYNCH, David
     :  The Straight Story

LYONS, Arthur
     :  Look out!  Satan Wants You: The Cult of Devil Worship in America

MAHFOUZ, Naguib
     :  Adrift on the Nile: Egypt's Less Than Zero by way of Crime and Punishment

MALMSTEEN, Yngwie J.
     :  Relentless: The Memoir

MANSO, Peter
     :  Mailer: His Life and Times

MARCUS, Ben
     :  The Age of Wire and String

MARKSON, David
     :  Malcolm Lowry's Volcano: Myth, Symbol, Meaning
     :  Wittgenstein's Mistress

MARQUAND, John P.
     :  Life at Happy Knoll

MASO, Carole
     :  Ava

MATHESON, Richard
     :  Hell House

MAX, D.T.
     :  Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

McCAMMON, Robert
     :  Swan Song

McCARTHY, Cormac
     :  Child of God
     :  The Road 

McCASKILL, Mac
     :  Guest Post — review of A Farewell to Manzanar

McINERNEY, Jay
     :  You and Bright Lights, Big City

McClure, Michael
     :  The Adept

METCALF, Paul
     :  Genoa: A Telling of Wonders

MEYER, Stephanie
     :  Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume I

MITFORD, Jessica
     :  The American Way of Death Revisited

MOONEY, Ted
     :  Looking Back at Ted Mooney's Author Chat in LibraryThing, Discussing The Same River Twice
     :  The Same River Twice

MORGAN, Ted
     :  Opening Remarks on Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

MYERS, Thomas S.
     :  Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon

O'BRIEN, John
     :  Leaving Las Vegas

O'BRIEN, Tim
     :  The Things They Carried

ORWELL, George
     :  My Thirteen Cents on 1984

PEART, Neil
     :  2112 by RUSH
     :  Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road

PLANTE, David
     : Where Faith and Fatalism Collide: The Accident

PLATH, Sylvia
     :  The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit

POWYS, John Cowper
     :  Collecting some Preliminary Thoughts on Consciousness from Porius

PRESTON, Richard
     :  The Demon in the Freezer

PROUST, Marcel
     :  In Search of Lost Time

RAND, Ayn
     :  Survival of the Shittiest: Happy Birthday to Ayn Rand!     
     :  The Greatest Achievement in History: Atlas Shrugged

REICHLER (ed.), Joseph L.
     :  How Washing and Waxing an Itasca Mini-motorhome Helped Procure My Copy of The Baseball Encyclopedia 

REINER, Rob
     :  This Is Spinal Tap

RENSIN, Emmett
     :  Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less

RESNICK, Rachel
     :  Rachel Resnick's autograph (Love Junkie: A Memoir)

RIDGE, Lola
     :  On discovering Lola Ridge while visiting Terese Svoboda's Website; or, Poetry, Personal Loss, and Remembrance

ROBINSON, John
     :  Mines of the East Fork; or, Panning for Gold Less Than an Hour Away from Los Angeles

RUDITIS, Paul
     :  The Girls Next Door

SAHGAL, Ajay
     :  Ajay Sahgal's autograph (Pool)

SALAMANCA, J. R.
     :  Appreciating Gray Foy's cover art for Lilith

SALTZ, Donald
     :  The Bantam Trivia Quiz Book

SANSOM, William
     :  Exhuming The Body

SAUNDERS, Charles Francis
     :  The Southern Sierras of California: A Second Look at a Forgotten Outdoors Classic

SCHAD, Jerry
     :  101 Hikes in Southern California: Exploring Mountains, Seashore and Desert

SCHLESSINGER, Dr. Laura
     :  Ten Stupid Things Women Do To Mess Up Their Lives

SOUTHERN, Terry
     :  The Magic Christian

SORRENTINO, Gilbert
     :  The Orangery

STARKIE, Enid
     :  Arthur Rimbaud

STEIN, Gertrude
     :  Is it Possible to Read The Making of Americans from First Sentence to Last?

STOKER, Bram
     :  When I Sink My Teeth into Dracula

STONE, Robert
     :  In Brief, Dog Soldiers

STRAY-GUNDERSEN, Karen
     :  Babies with Down Syndrome: A New Parent's Guide

STREET, Sesame
     :  Cookie's Guessing Game About Food

SUGERMAN, Danny
     :  Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess

SVOBODA, Terese
     :  On discovering Lola Ridge while visiting Terese Svoboda's website; or, Poetry, Personal Loss, and Remembrance
     :  Savoring A Drink Called Paradise

THOMPSON, Hunter S.
     :  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

TOLSTOY, Leo
     :  A Confession

TROPIC OF IDEAS
     :  A Fabulous Opera

TWIST, Clint
     :  Planes and How They Work

VOLLMANN, William T.
     :  William T. Vollmann ephemera from his publisher for The Rifles
     :  The Royal Family
     :  The Woolly Mammoth of William T. Vollmann's Imperial

WAKEMAN, Frederic
     :  The Hucksters

WALLACE, David Foster
     :  Consider(ing) the Lobster and the cut short life of David Foster Wallace
     :  Happy 50th Birthday, David Foster Wallace!
     :  I'm Still Obsessed with Infinite Jest
     :  Infinite Jest: Some Brief "Year of Glad" Observations, part I
     :  Random Quote and Observations Reading The Broom of the System

WARNKE, Mike
     :  The Satan Seller

WARREN, Robert Penn
     :  On Finding a First Printing of All the King's Men

WATKINS, Claire Vaye
     :  Battleborn

WEINER, Ellis
     :  Yiddish with George and Laura

WELCH, Denton
     :  I Left My Grandfather's House

WELSH, Irvine
     :  Terse Take on Trainspotting

WHITBURN, Joel
     :  The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits

WIESEL, Elie
     :  Some Thoughts on Night

WILDER, Thornton
     :  Recrossing The Bridge of San Luis Rey

WILKINS, Kirby
     :  Kirby Wilkins' autograph (Vanishing)

WILSON, Robert Anton
     :  Masks of the Illuminati: Not An Ordinary Mystery Whodunnit

WITT, Emily
     :  Future Sex

WRIGHT, Austin Tappan
     :  A Swift Survey of Islandia

WRIGHT, L. R.
     :  The Suspect

WRIGHT, Stephen
     :  Stephen Wright on Writing (and Readers) and Going Native

YUTANG, Lin
     :  "Literary Life" in China: Notes from Lin Yutang's Classic My Country and My People

ZABALAS, Javier Pedro
     :  The Mad Patagonian (guest post)

ZELAZNY, Roger
     :  Take a Ride Down Damnation Alley


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