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| Preface |
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| Writing about Fiction |
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One of Star Wars, One of Doom |
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1 | (16) |
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17 | (7) |
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24 | (13) |
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Related: Atwood, Why Do You Write? 1620 |
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37 | (23) |
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60 | (5) |
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Related: Bambara, What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow? 1620 |
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65 | (8) |
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Related: Barrett on Willa Cather's Paul's Case 1680 |
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73 | (9) |
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82 | (14) |
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Related: Bausch on Anton Chekhov's Gusev 1681 |
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Bausch, Letter to a Young Writer 1621 |
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96 | (18) |
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Related: Baxter on William Maxwell's The Thistles in Sweden 1682 |
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114 | (2) |
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Related: Beattie on Peter Taylor's A Spinster's Tale 1683 |
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116 | (12) |
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Related: Bell on George Garrett's Wounded Soldier 1684 |
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Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? |
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128 | (12) |
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
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140 | (7) |
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Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote |
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147 | (8) |
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155 | (11) |
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166 | (13) |
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Related: Busch on Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants 1685 |
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The Year of Getting to Know Us |
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179 | (13) |
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192 | (9) |
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201 | (5) |
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206 | (11) |
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Related: Carver, From On Writing 1624 |
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217 | (13) |
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230 | (5) |
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235 | (15) |
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Related: Andrea Barrett on Paul's Case 1680 |
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250 | (8) |
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258 | (8) |
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266 | (10) |
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276 | (8) |
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284 | (13) |
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Related: Richard Baush on Gusev 1681 |
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Chekhov, Letter to D. V. Grigorovich 1627 |
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Chekhov, Letter to A. S. Suvorin 1628 |
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297 | (3) |
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Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) |
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
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300 | (4) |
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304 | (6) |
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310 | (61) |
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Related: Conrad, Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus'' 1629 |
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Conrad, Letter to Barrett H. Clark 1632 |
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Barry Hannah on Heart of Darkness 1692 |
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C. P. Sarvan, Racism and the Heart of Darkness 1704 |
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371 | (1) |
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Letter to a Young Lady in Paris |
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372 | (7) |
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379 | (17) |
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396 | (21) |
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Related: Crane, Letter to John Northern Hiliard 1633 |
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Allan Gurganus on The Open Boat 1689 |
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Charles C. Walcutt, [Stephen Crane: Naturalist] 1714 |
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417 | (12) |
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429 | (23) |
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Related: Tobias Wolff on Sorrow-Acre 1716 |
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452 | (10) |
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Related: Dodd on Eudora Welty's A Worn Path 1687 |
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462 | (9) |
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471 | (9) |
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480 | (19) |
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499 | (8) |
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Related: Ellison, An Interview 1633 |
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507 | (13) |
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520 | (7) |
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527 | (8) |
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535 | (13) |
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Related: Faulkner, An Interview 1636 |
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548 | (16) |
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564 | (12) |
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Related: Ford on Bharati Mukherjee's The Management of Grief 1688 |
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576 | (9) |
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The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World |
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585 | (5) |
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590 | (7) |
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Related: Madison Smartt Bell on Wounded Soldier 1684 |
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Garrett on William Goyen's Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt 1689 |
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597 | (12) |
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609 | (11) |
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Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt |
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620 | (7) |
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Related: George Garrett on Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt 1689 |
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627 | (7) |
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Related: Gurganus on Stephen Crane's The Open Boat 1689 |
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Constant Pain in Tuscaloosa |
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634 | (5) |
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Related: Hannah on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness 1692 |
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639 | (9) |
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648 | (13) |
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Related: Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales 1702 |
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Hills Like White Elephants |
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661 | (5) |
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Related: Frederick Busch on Hills Like White Elephants 1685 |
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Hemingway, An Interview 1640 |
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In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried |
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666 | (7) |
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The Wedding of Snow and Ice |
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673 | (9) |
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The Conscience of the Court |
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682 | (11) |
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693 | (7) |
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700 | (13) |
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Related: James, The Art of Fiction 1643 |
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713 | (13) |
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726 | (5) |
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731 | (10) |
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Related: Jones on Frank O'Connor's Guests of the Nation 1693 |
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741 | (4) |
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745 | (10) |
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755 | (30) |
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Related: C. C. Loomis, Jr., Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's ``The Dead'' 1694 |
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785 | (32) |
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817 | (8) |
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Related: Stanley Corngold, Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor 1686 |
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Kafka, Letter to Max Brod 1645 |
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825 | (3) |
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828 | (2) |
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830 | (9) |
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The Horse Dealer's Daughter |
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839 | (12) |
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851 | (11) |
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Related: Lawrence, Why the Novel Matters 1647 |
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas |
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862 | (5) |
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867 | (24) |
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Related: Lessing, An Interview 1648 |
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Brief Lives in California |
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891 | (9) |
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My Father's Chinese Wives |
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900 | (10) |
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910 | (8) |
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918 | (51) |
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Disorder and Early Sorrow |
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969 | (23) |
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Related: David Luke, [Thomas Mann's ``Iridescent Interweaving''] 1697 |
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Mann, Letter to Paul Amann 1650 |
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992 | (10) |
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1002 | (11) |
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1013 | (27) |
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1040 | (6) |
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Related: Maupassant, The Novel 1650 |
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1046 | (15) |
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Related: Charles Baxter on The Thistles in Sweden 1682 |
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John Updike, Three New Yorker Stalwarts [William Maxwell] 1709 |
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1061 | (12) |
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1073 | (12) |
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1085 | (27) |
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Related: Leo Marx, Melville's Parable of the Walls 1699 |
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1112 | (13) |
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Related: Richard Ford on The Management of Grief 1688 |
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Mukherjee, A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman 1652 |
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1125 | (16) |
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1141 | (15) |
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Related: Munro, What Is Real? 1654 |
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1156 | (9) |
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1165 | (5) |
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The Several Blessings of Wang Ta-nien |
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1170 | (6) |
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How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again |
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1176 | (12) |
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Related: Oates, The Art and Craft of Revision 1657 |
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1188 | (13) |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find |
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1201 | (11) |
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1212 | (14) |
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Everything That Rises Must Converge |
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1226 | (12) |
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Related: O'Connor, The Nature and Aim of Fiction 1658 |
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Lee Smith on A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1708 |
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1238 | (9) |
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Related: Edward P. Jones on Guests of the Nation 1693 |
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1247 | (13) |
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1260 | (4) |
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The Fall of the House of Usher |
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1264 | (14) |
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1278 | (14) |
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Related: Poe, The Philosophy of Composition 1659 |
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Poe, Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales 1702 |
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Richard Wilbur, The House of Poe 1715 |
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The Jilting of Granny Weatherall |
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1292 | (6) |
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1298 | (10) |
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Related: Porter, An Interview 1660 |
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1308 | (9) |
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1317 | (5) |
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The Conversion of the Jews |
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1322 | (11) |
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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses |
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1333 | (7) |
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1340 | (15) |
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1355 | (11) |
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1366 | (19) |
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Related: Smith on Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1708 |
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1385 | (4) |
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1389 | (8) |
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1397 | (20) |
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1417 | (6) |
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1423 | (8) |
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1431 | (16) |
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Related: Ann Beattie on A Spinster's Tale 1683 |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
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1447 | (5) |
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Related: Thurber, An Interview 1663 |
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1452 | (40) |
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Related: Gary Saul Morson, The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction 1701 |
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Tolstoy, What Is Art? 1665 |
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1492 | (5) |
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1497 | (10) |
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Related: Updike, Accepting the Howells Medal 1667 |
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Updike, Three New Yorker Stalwarts [William Maxwell] 1709 |
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1507 | (5) |
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1512 | (7) |
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1519 | (16) |
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1535 | (9) |
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1544 | (6) |
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Related: Susan Dodd on A Worn Path 1687 |
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The Man Who Loved Levittown |
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1550 | (12) |
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1562 | (18) |
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1580 | (10) |
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1590 | (4) |
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In the Garden of the North American Martyrs |
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1594 | (9) |
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Related: Wolff on Isak Dineson's Sorrow-Acre 1716 |
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1603 | (6) |
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The Man Who Was Almost a Man |
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1609 | (10) |
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1619 | (51) |
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1620 | (1) |
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What Is It I Think I'm Doing Anyhow? |
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1620 | (1) |
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1621 | (3) |
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1624 | (3) |
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Letter to D. V. Grigorovich, March 28, 1886 |
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1627 | (1) |
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Letter to A. S. Suvorin, October 27, 1888 |
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1628 | (1) |
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Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus'' |
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1629 | (3) |
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Letter to Barrett H. Clark, May 14, 1918 |
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1632 | (1) |
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Letter to John Northern Hiliard, February 1895[?] |
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1633 | (1) |
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1633 | (3) |
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1643 | (2) |
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Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922 |
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1645 | (2) |
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1647 | (1) |
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Letter to Paul Amann, September 10, 1915 |
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1650 | (1) |
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1650 | (2) |
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A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman |
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1652 | (2) |
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1654 | (3) |
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The Art and Craft of Revision |
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1657 | (1) |
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The Nature and Aim of Fiction |
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1658 | (1) |
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The Philosophy of Composition |
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1659 | (1) |
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1660 | (3) |
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1663 | (2) |
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1665 | (2) |
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Accepting the Howells Medal |
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1667 | (1) |
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1668 | (2) |
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1670 | (10) |
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1680 | (38) |
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Willa Cather's ``Paul's Case'' |
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1680 | (1) |
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Anton Chekhov's ``Gusev'' |
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1681 | (1) |
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William Maxwell's ``The Thistles in Sweden'' |
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1682 | (1) |
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Peter Taylor's ``A Spinster's Tale'' |
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1683 | (1) |
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George Garrett's ``Wounded Soldier'' |
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1684 | (1) |
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Ernest Hemingway's ``Hills Like White Elephants'' |
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1685 | (1) |
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Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Metamorphosis of the Metaphor |
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1686 | (1) |
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Eudora Welty's ``A Worn Path'' |
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1687 | (1) |
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Bharati Mukherjee's ``The Management of Grief'' |
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1688 | (1) |
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William Goyen's ``Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt'' |
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1689 | (1) |
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Stephen Crane's ``The Open Boat'' |
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1689 | (3) |
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Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness |
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1692 | (1) |
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Frank O'Connor's ``Guests of the Nation'' |
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1693 | (1) |
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Structure and Sympathy in Joyce's ``The Dead'' |
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1694 | (3) |
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[Thomas Mann's ``Iridescent Interweaving''] |
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1697 | (2) |
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Melville's Parable of the Walls |
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1699 | (2) |
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The Reader as Voyeur: Tolstoi and the Poetics of Didactic Fiction |
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1701 | (1) |
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Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales |
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1702 | (2) |
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Racism and the Heart of Darkness |
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1704 | (4) |
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Flannery O'Connor's ``A Good Man Is Hard to Find'' |
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1708 | (1) |
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Three New Yorker Stalwarts [William Maxwell] |
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1709 | (5) |
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[Stephen Crane: Naturalist] |
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1714 | (1) |
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1715 | (1) |
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Isak Dinesen's ``Sorrow-Acre'' |
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1716 | (2) |
| Glossary of Critical Terms |
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1718 | (7) |
| Permissions Acknowledgments |
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1725 | (8) |
| Index of Titles |
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