By Taylor Pearson: https://medium.com/the-mission/12-books-that-made-me-think-b322db3e151a Taylor Pearson Author, essayist, and entrepreneur. Into history, complexity, productivity and the blockchain. Don’t have all[…]
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Why Read Moby-Dick?
A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition One of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick’s enlightening and entertaining tour through Melville’s classic. As he did in his National Book…
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Europe Central
A daring literary masterpiece and winner of the National Book Award. In this magnificent work of fiction, acclaimed author William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye on the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century to render a mesmerizing perspective on human experience during wartime. Through interwoven narratives that paint a…
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From Modernism to Postmodernism, Concepts and Strategies of Postmodern American Fiction
Postmodern Studies; American Literature; 20th Century; Cultural Theory; and Aesthetics.
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Pricksongs and Descants, Fictions
A groundbreaking collection of short fictions including “The Babysitter,” one of the most anthologized stories of all time. Coover’s stories are told well and told in many different styles.
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