Index

Abbey, Edward, 34, 106

Abbott, Edwin A., 323

Abe, Kobo, 27

About Alice (Trillin), 288

Abramovich, Alex, 235

Absurdistan (Shteyngart), 188

Abuse of Power (Kutler), 134

Achebe, Chinua, 57, 92, 361

Aciman, André, 7, 208

Acker, Kathy, 375

Ackerley, J. R., 177, 332

Ackroyd, Peter, 267, 354, 381

Act One (Hart), 301

Adair, Gilbert, 165

Adams, Ansel, 127

Adams, Clover, 385

Adams, Douglas, 82, 323, 402

Adams, Franklin P., 47

Adams, Henry, 55, 352, 385

Adams, John, 213

Adams, Richard, 148, 236

Adaptation, 400

Adler, Mortimer, 201

Adler, Renata, 18, 160, 330

Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, The (Mutis), 86

Adventures in the Screen Trade (Goldman), 229

Adventures of Augie March, The (Bellow), 302

Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The (Chabon), 140, 306

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (Doyle), 327

“Aeroplanes at Brescia, The” (Kafka), 305

African, The (Courlander), 328

Against Interpretation (Sontag), 287

Agassi, Andre, 164

Agee, James, 157, 191, 372

Age of Grief, The (Smiley), 105

Age of Innocence, The (Wharton), 112

Age of Wire and String, The (Marcus), 122

Agnes Grey (Bronté), 212, 216

Aiken, Conrad, 260, 279

Airport (Hailey), 5

Akhmatova, Anna, 76, 292

Alain-Fournier, Henri, 299

Albert, Laura, 342

Albert Angelo (Johnson), 44

alcohol, 141, 213, 218, 245, 256, 257, 265, 300, 333, 350, 359, 398; beer, 106, 162, 252, 359, 390; binges, 9, 76, 347, 375; in fiction, 129, 356, 404; gin, 210; hangovers, 3, 175, 176; “Lucky Jim, The,” 176; mescal, 347; Scotch, 184, 404; sobriety, 175, 390; wine, 128; and writing, 82, 252

Alcoholics Anonymous, 362, 390

Alcott, Bronson, 250

Alcott, Louisa May, 77, 85, 250, 266, 379

Alden, W. L., 74

Aldington, Richard, 257

Aleichem, Sholem, 152

Alexander, Lloyd, 156

Alexie, Sherman, 192, 318

Alger, Horatio, Jr., 45, 226, 274

Alger: A Biography Without a Hero (Mayes), 45

Algiers Motel Incident, The (Hersey), 233

Algren, Nelson, 148

Alice, Let’s Eat (Trillin), 288

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 139, 143, 212, 340, 384, 395

Alienist, The (Carr), 74

Alive (Read), 51, 393

Allen, Larry, 393

Allen, Matthew, 363

Allen, Woody, 336, 380

Allende, Isabel, 245

Allison, Dorothy, 116

Allman, Paul Limbert, 315

All-Story, 380

All the King’s Men (Warren), 243, 246

All the President’s Men (Woodward and Bernstein), 291, 336

All the Year Round, 234, 378

Almanach des Gourmands (Grimod), 6

Almanach des honnêtes gens (Maréchal), 258

Alsop, Joseph, 271

Alvarez, A., 88

Alvarez, Julia, 98

Amazing Stories, 259

Amazon.com, 223

Ambler, Eric, 333

Ambrose, Stephen E., 324

America in the King Years (Branch), 109

American Almanac (Leeds), 4

“American Heartworm” (Metcalf), 122

American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, 30

American Mercury, 101

American Pastoral (Roth), 179, 195

Americans, The (Frank), 352

American Splendor (Pekar), 410

American Tabloid (Ellroy), 363

American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 111

Ames, Jonathan, 94

Amis, Kingsley, 86, 121, 139, 176, 384

Amis, Martin, 268, 328, 384

Ammons, A. R., 64, 77, 394

Amongst Women (McGahern), 385

Among the Thugs (Buford), 40

Anatomy Lesson, The (Rembrandt), 21

Anatomy of a Moment, The (Cercas), 62

Andersen, Hans Christian, 107, 185, 247, 322

Anderson, Laurie Halse, 334

Anderson, Sherwood, 79, 133

Andreas-Salomé, Lou, 44, 151

Andrews, V. C., 179

And Still the Waters Run (Debo), 35

And Then There Were None (Christie), 251

Angell, Roger, 65, 296, 329

Angelou, Maya, 109, 172

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (Wilson), 402

Angry Penguins, 231

Animal Farm (Orwell), 253

animals: badgers, 232; bedbugs, 107, 324; bees, 315, 391; butterflies, 182; cats, 30, 34, 110, 114, 234, 300, 307, 337; civet cats, 50, 340; cows, 56, 84, 124, 256, 288; dogs, 25, 126, 152, 183, 217, 254, 266, 342; elephants, 102; fawn, 238; frogs, 11, 139, 282; goat, 119; hog, 287; horses, 82, 88, 93, 95, 129, 133, 141, 265; lambs, 56, 69–70; lion, 69-70; mice, 4, 232, 234; rabbits, 31, 139, 236; sea monsters, 116; sharks, 112, 166, 193, 236; skunk, 4; spider, 133; squirrel, 222; tiger, 210; toad, 139, 149, 244, 282; tortoises, 386; turtle, 319; vole, 232; wasp, 292; whales, 58, 395; wolves, 162; yeti, 333

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver), 71

Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 219

Annapurna (Herzog), 154

Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery), 71, 213, 309, 374

Antarctica, 5, 28, 92, 121, 208, 408

Anthony, Piers, 249

Antichrist, The (Nietzsche), 8

“Ant of the Self, An” (Packer), 327

Apana, Chang, 221

Apocalypse Now, 233, 326

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 269

Apple in the Dark, The (Lispector), 340

Apple, R. W., 177

Appointment in Samarra (O’Hara), 405

Aquinas, Thomas, 78, 386

Arbus, Diane, 85

Arendt, Hannah, 116, 383

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Blume), 79

Argosy, 365

Ariel (Maurois), 238

Arlen, Michael, 196

Armies of the Night, The (Mailer), 332

Army Man, 230

Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne), 400

Arthur Mervyn (Brown), 243, 268

Asbury, Herbert, 101, 262, 278

Ashe, Arthur, 285

As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 107, 146

Asimov, Isaac, 85, 111

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (Hansen), 108

Astounding Science Fiction, 148

Asturias, Miguel Angel, 182

Aswany, Alaa Al, 73

As You Like It (Shakespeare), 60

Athenaeum, 36

Athill, Diana, 400

Atlantic Monthly, 23, 120, 144, 188, 213

Atonement (McEwan), 305

At Swim-Two-Birds (O’Brien), 89, 237

At Swim, Two Boys (O’Neill), 88

At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft), 5, 28

Atwood, Margaret, 157, 198, 363

Auchincloss, Eve, 301

Auden, W. H., 5, 23, 27, 40, 216, 276, 326

Audubon, John James, 119, 295

Auer, Jane. See Bowles, Jane

Auerbach, Erich, 327

Augustine, St., 130, 131, 358

August 1914 (Solzhenitsyn), 242

Auschwitz, 32, 175, 194, 219, 397

Austen, Jane, 13, 39, 53, 113, 117, 130, 226, 245, 371, 395

Auster, Paul, 42, 271

Austin, Mary, 286

Autobiography (Franklin), 239

Autobiography (Trollope), 338

Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (Stein), 286, 364

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The (Johnson), 56, 125, 172

Autobiography of LeRoi Jones, The, 324

Autobiography of Malcolm X, The, 59, 166, 194

Avedon, Richard, 312

Awakening, The (Chopin), 167

Awakenings (Sacks), 139, 233

Awdry, Rev. W., 92

 

Babbitt (Lewis), 328

Babel, Isaac, 6, 154, 221, 222, 324

Baby and Child Care (Spock), 387

Bach, Steven, 199

Bachmann, Ingeborg, 328

Back to Blood (Wolfe), 326

Bacon, Francis, 265

Baez, Mimi, 135, 267

Bagdasarian, Ross, 179

Bailey, Blake, 83

Bainbridge, Beryl, 366

Baker, Dorothy, 172

Baker, Josephine, 244

Baker, Nicholson, 12, 249, 254, 300

Baldwin, James, 163, 185, 237, 245, 356, 396

Bales, Jack, 45

Ball, Ben, 263

“Ballad of Rodger Young, The,” 239

Ballard, J. G., 127, 360

Ball Four (Bouton), 269

Balliett, Whitney, 388, 408

Balzac, Honoré de, 43, 145, 261, 298, 317, 336, 368

Bambara, Toni Cade, 388

Bambi (Salten), 319

Bangs, Lester, 110, 135, 366

Banks, Russell, 99

Banville, John, 202, 385, 387

Baraka, Amiri. See Jones, LeRoi

Barbarians at the Gate (Burrough and Helyar), 330

Barbary Coast, The (Asbury), 101

Barker, Clive, 316

Barker, Pat, 147

Barks, Carl, 98

Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 140

Barnacle, Nora, 188, 189, 264

Barnes, Djuna, 185, 191, 235, 283, 287, 313

Baroque Cycle (Stephenson), 323

Barr, Candy, 302

Barrett, Andrea, 361

Barrett, Elizabeth, 26, 30, 91, 129, 138, 159, 202, 217

Barrie, J. M., 192, 363

Barry, Lynda, 7, 248

Barthelme, Donald, 112, 249, 305, 315

Barthelme, Frederick, 391

Barthelme, Steven, 391

Barthes, Henriette, 337

Barthes, Roland, 97, 337, 357

“Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Melville), 14

Baseball Abstract (James), 329

Bataille, Georges, 90

Bateson, Mary Catherine, 387

Battle of Dienbienphu, The (Roy), 46

battles: Ancre, the, 359; Athens, 131; Austerlitz, 381; Bautzen, 160; Chancellorsville, 70; Hernani, 64; Maiwand, 200; Gettysburg, 208; Rivington Street, 262; Shiloh, 111, 296; Tannenberg, 242; Waterloo, 160, 191, 278

Batuman, Elif, 222

Baudelaire, Charles, 114, 158

Bauer, Felice, xii, xiv, 256, 299

Baum, L. Frank, 145, 156, 312, 320, 408

Bayley, John, 399

Bazin, André, 123

BBC Talks of E. M. Forster, The, 257

Beach, Sylvia, 41, 122, 316

Beane, Billy, 177

Bear, Greg, 263

Bear Called Paddington, A (Bond), 324

Beard, James, 134

Beard, Richard, 346

Beardsley, Aubrey, 87

Beatles, the, 281

Beatrice and Virgil (Martel), 117

Beattie, Ann, 285, 379

Beaumont, Gustave de, 150, 222

Beautiful and Damned, The (Fitzgerald), 156

Beauvoir, Simone de, 14, 90, 98, 119

Bechdel, Alison, 60, 362

Beckett, Samuel, 12, 32, 53, 73, 118, 134, 190, 217, 359, 392, 401

Bedford, Sybille, 56

Bedtime for Frances (Hoban), 232

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Fariña), 135

Beer, Thomas, 298

Beerbohm, Max, 159, 349

Beevor, Anthony, 379

“Before the Change” (Munro), 225

Beggars of Life (Tully), 329

Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Boo), 226

Behn, Aphra, 121, 249

Bel Canto (Patchett), 333

Bellamy, Edward, 169

Bellefleur (Oates), 21

Bellevue Literary Press, 117

Bell Jar, The (Plath), 192

Bellow, Saul, 81, 94, 110, 183, 186, 222, 302, 372

Beloved (Morrison), 33, 350

Belushi, John, 76

Bemelmans, Ludwig, 132

Benchley, Peter, 173, 193

Benedict, Ruth, 17, 294

Bengtsson, Frans, 71

Ben-Hur (Wallace), 111, 169, 296

Benjamin, Walter, 223, 302

Bennett, Arnold, 110

Benson, E. F., 68

Berberova, Nina, 64

Berendt, John, 141

Berenstain, Stan, 371

Berger, John, 350

Berger, Thomas, 228

Beria, Lavrenti, 154

Berlin, Isaiah, 292

Bernanos, Georges, 213

Bernhard, Thomas, 51, 253

Bernstein, Carl, 53, 291, 336

Berriault, Gina, 223

Berry, Walter Van Rensselaer, 323

Berry, Wendell, 248

Berryman, John, 12, 40, 333

Besant, Annie, 297

Best, Mary Agnes, 184

Best and the Brightest, The (Halberstam), 30, 380

Bester, Alfred, 54

Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes, The (Debo), 35

Beyle, Henri. See Stendhal

Bible, the, 52, 299, 317, 353

Bierce, Ambrose, 197, 221, 281

Bigart, Homer, 203

Big Bounce, The (Leonard), 365

Biggers, Earl Derr, 221

Big Machine (LaValle), 353

Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Böll), 283

Billy Budd (Melville), 124

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Fountain), 370

Binchy, Maeve, 238

birds, 26, 38, 119, 132, 327, 383; albatrosses, 358; chickadees, 41; chickens, 48, 286; finches, 312; hawk, 294; heron, blue, 238; nightingale, 322; owl, 291; peafowl, 339; pheasants, 312; ravens, 39; toucan, 375; Whiffle Hen, 32

“Birds, The” (du Maurier), 383

Birds of America (Moore), 297

Birds of America, The (Audubon), 119

Birkerts, Sven, 294

birthdays, character’s: Baggins, Bilbo, 299; Baggins, Frodo, 299; Bascombe, Ralph, 125; Bast, Leonard, 356; Bigend, Hubertus, 180; Blomkvist, Mikael, 23; Cullen, Edward, 193; Dressler, Martin, 274; Everdeen, Katniss, 147; Goldsmith, Peter, 9; Granger, Hermione, 296; HAL, 17; Haze, Dolores, 6; Highway, Charles, 384; Hosokawa, Katsumi, 333; Linton, Cathy, 91; Longbottom, Neville, 239; Malfoy, Draco, 178; Newman, Ludo, 91; Pnin, Timofey, 42; Potter, Harry, 239; Rosemary’s baby, 198; Sawtelle, Edgar, 152; Shandy, Tristram, 350; Sinai, Saleem, 258; Stephanides, Cal/Callie, 13; Weeks, Granner, 215; Wilson, William, 24

Bishop, Elizabeth, 92, 102, 132, 317, 340, 375

Bishop, John Peale, 252

Black, Jack, 9

black air, 78

Black and White Ball, 373

Blackboard Jungle, The (Hunter), 232

Black Book, The, 17

Black Boy (Wright), 168, 172

Black Echo, The (Connelly), 159

Black Robe (Moore), 311

Blackwood’s Magazine, 178, 319

Blair, Eric. See Orwell, George

Blake, William, 179, 255, 373, 404

Bleak House (Dickens), 92, 121, 298, 301, 343–44, 345

Blériot, Louis, 305

Blind Ambition (Dean), 192

Blind Assassin, The (Atwood), 157

Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne), 256

Blixen, Karen. See Dinesen, Isak

Bloch, Marc, 189

Blood Meridian (McCarthy), 184

Bloody Chamber, The (Carter), 247

Bloom, Allan, 291

Bloom, Amy, 191, 264

Bloom, Harold, 83

Blount, Edward, 353

Blue Lotus, The (Hergé), 140

Blues for Mister Charlie (Baldwin), 185

Blues People (Jones), 45

Blume, Judy, 51, 79

Blythe, Will, 85

Blyton, Enid, 373

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 227, 400

Bogan, Louise, 254

Boggs (Weschler), 368

Boggs, J. S. G., 368

Boland, Eavan, 301

Bolaño, Roberto, 133, 223, 357, 363

Böll, Heinrich, 52, 283, 400

Bombeck, Erma, 127

Bond, Michael, 324

Bonnie and Clyde, 332

Bontemps, Arna, 324, 406

Boo, Katherine, 226, 255

Booker Prize, 15, 157, 194, 210, 350

Book of Bond, The (Amis), 176

Book of Days, The (Chambers), 88

Book of Evidence, The (Banville), 202

Book of Mormon, 97

Book of the Damned, The (Fort), 31

Book-of-the-Month Club, 249, 302

Book of Travels (Khusraw), 76

bookstores: Booked Up, 253; Elliott Bay Book Co., 122; Marks & Co., 316; Munro’s Books, 296; Shakespeare & Co., 41, 122; Strand, the, 235

Boorstin, Daniel J., 312

Borchert, Wolfgang, 365

Borden, Lizzie, 247

Borges, Jorge Guillermo, 63

Borges, Jorge Luis, 13, 63, 187, 212, 262, 267, 307

Born on the Fourth of July (Kovic), 207

Boswell, James, xv, 116, 340, 392

Bourdain, Anthony, 243

Bourne Identity, The (Ludlum), 96

Bouton, Jim, 269

Bouvard and Pecuchet (Flaubert), 214

Bowden, George, 73

Bowden, Mark, 225

Bowen, Elizabeth, 61, 84, 165

Bowles, Jane, 72, 143

Bowles, Paul, 72, 363

Boyd, William, 78

Boyle, Kay, 406

Boys on the Bus, The (Crouse), 177

Boy’s Will, A (Frost), 35

Braby, Maud Churton, 83

Bradbury, Ray, 178, 265, 279, 349

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 260

Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 149

Bradford, Richard, 384

Bradley, Bill, 32, 285

Bradley, David, 250

Bradley, Marion Zimmer, 176

Bradstreet, Anne, 218, 293

Branch, Taylor, 19, 109

Brautigan, Richard, 35, 342

Brave Men (Pyle), 396

Brave New World (Huxley), 384

Brawne, Fanny, 324, 397

Brazil: A Land of the Future (Zweig), 62

Bread Givers (Yezierska), 396

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 256

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote), 59, 307

Breaks of the Game, The (Halberstam), 39, 46

Brecht, Bertolt, 49

Bridge, The (Crane), 150

Bridget Jones’s Diary (Fielding), 3

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Wallace), 193

Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The (Diaz), 169

Bright Lights, Big City (McInerney), 255

“Bright Star” (Keats), 324

Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, 41, 220

Bring Up the Bodies (Mantel), 30

Brink, André, 168

Brittain, Vera, 279, 280, 405, 408

Brod, Max, 256, 305, 410

Brodkey, Harold, 31

Brodsky, Joseph, 294

“Brokeback Mountain” (Proulx), 197

Brontë, Anne, 167, 178, 216

Brontë, Branwell, 178

Brontë, Charlotte, 102, 117, 126, 127, 154, 178, 212, 216, 237, 331, 334

Brontë, Emily, 20, 91, 178, 216, 238, 398

Brooke, Rupert, 128

Brookner, Anita, 224, 277

Brooks, Geraldine, 70

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 171, 382

Brooks, Louise, 142

Brooks, Mel, 119

Brooks, Van Wyck, 141

Broom of the System, The (Wallace), 398

Brophy, Brigid, 250, 301

Brother, I’m Dying (Danticat), 340

brothers. See siblings

Brothers and Keepers (Wideman), 48

Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoyevsky), 328, 339

Brown, Charles Brockden, 61, 243, 268

Brown, Claude, 41

Brown, Dan, 195

Brown, Dee, 68, 169

Brown, Helen Gurley, 90, 256, 302

Brown, James, 335

Brown, Joy, 404

Brown, Larry, 217

Brown, Margaret Wise, 162, 280, 358

Brown, Michael, 404

Brown, Norman O., 313

Brown, William Wells, 355

Browne, Sir Thomas, 21, 212, 330

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. See Barrett, Elizabeth

Browning, Robert, 26, 138, 159, 217, 354, 391

Broyard, Anatole, 72, 224, 284

Brunhoff, Jean de, 388

Bryson, Bill, 387

Buber, Martin, 186

Buchanan, Edna, 65, 390

Buck, Pearl S., 199

Buckley, William F., 66, 146

Buford, Bill, 40

Building Stories (Ware), 300

Bujold, Lois McMaster, 347

Bukowski, Charles, 80

Bulgakov, Mikhail, 81

“Bull in the Afternoon” (Eastman), 254

Bundy, Ted, 313

Bunker, Edward, 227

Buntline, Ned, 149

Bunyan, John, 274

Burger’s Daughter (Gordimer), 262

Burgess, Anthony, 90, 153, 305, 367

Burgess, Gelett, 295

Burke, Edmund, 217

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 340

Burnett, Whit, 286

Burney, Fanny, 186, 245

Burns, Charles, 304

Burns, Robert, 171, 229, 270

Burrough, Bryan, 330

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 75, 90, 122, 228, 380

Burroughs, William S., 9, 42, 44, 245, 264

Burroughs, William Seward, 264

Burton, Richard, 326

Burton, Richard Francis, 331

Burton, Robert, 30

Burton, Virginia Lee, 326

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Brown), 169

Bushnell, Candace, 380

Butler, Octavia, 63, 182

Butler, Samuel, 18, 186, 191

Byatt, A. S., 76, 194, 234, 332

Bynner, Witter, 389

Bynum, Sarah Shun-lien, 277

Byron, Lord, 27, 81, 124, 142, 156, 189, 200, 245, 319

 

Cade, Jared, 382

Caen, Herb, 108

Caesar (Goldsworthy), 71

Cahan, Abraham, 274

Cain, James M., 99, 176, 209, 299, 333, 338, 360

Cakes and Ale (Maugham), 302

Caldwell, Erskine, 360

Caldwell, Taylor, 284

Caleb Williams (Godwin), 164

Calendar of Wisdom, A (Tolstoy), 5

calendars, 3–4, 5, 42, 68, 104, 205–6, 258, 375

Calley, William, 357

Call Me by Your Name (Aciman), 208

Calvin, John, 166

Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson), 400

Calvino, Italo, 47, 145, 296, 326

Camera Lucida (Barthes), 97

Cameron, Angus, 200

Campbell, Bebe Moore, 372

Campbell, John W., 148

Campbell, Joseph, 147, 341

Campbell, Julie, 215

Camus, Albert, 90, 146, 245, 352, 360

Canada (Ford), 273

“Canal, The” (Yates), 65

Candide (Voltaire), 346

Cane (Toomer), 284

Canessa, Roberto, 393

Canetti, Elias, 15, 233

Caniff, Milton, 65

Cann, Kid, 388

Cannery Row (Steinbeck), 147

Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 103, 105, 123

Canto General (Neruda), 201

Cantor, Norman, 364

Cantwell, Robert, 155

Capa, Robert, 248

Čapek, Karel, 404

Capel-Dunn, Denis, 214

Capote, Truman, 21, 119, 231, 268, 307, 373, 404

“Captain, My Captain” (Whitman), 120

Carey, Peter, 49, 146, 150

Carle, Eric, 198

Carlos, Bun E., 143

Carlyle, Thomas, 383

Carnegie, Dale, 369

Caro, Robert, 272

Carpenter, Don, 236

Carr, Caleb, 74

Carr, Emily, 392

Carrie (King), 166

Carroll, Jim, 288

Carroll, Lewis, 19, 32, 124, 139, 143, 212, 340, 384, 395

Carson, Anne, 37

Carson, Johnny, 197, 231

Carson, Rachel, 119, 187, 230

Carter, Angela, 55, 247

Carter, Howard, 371

Cartland, Barbara, 160

Carver, Raymond, 27, 29, 89, 93, 164, 175, 178, 216, 245, 286, 328

Cary, Joyce, 100

Casanova, Giacomo, 107, 125

Casares, Adolfo Bioy, 79

Cash, W. J., 141

Cassady, Neal, 66, 127, 266, 406

Cassandra at the Wedding (Baker), 172

Castaneda, Carlos, 404

Castle of Otranto, The (Walpole), 96

Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger), 224, 226, 379

Catch-22 (Heller), 72, 333

Cather, Willa, 167, 210, 386, 392

Catherine of Siena, St., 96

Cat in the Hat, The (Seuss), 151, 163

Catton, Bruce, 320

Cavafy, Constantine, 134

Cavett, Dick, 161

Cecilia (Burney), 245

Cela, Camilo José, 150

Celan, Paul, 368

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 166, 304

Cellini, Benvenuto, 52

Century of November, A (Wetherell), 345

Cercas, Javier, 62

Cerf, Bennett, 270

Cervantes, Miguel de, 21, 128, 217, 306, 307, 342

Cézanne, Paul, 109

Chabon, Michael, 3, 96, 140, 163, 306, 410

Chaix, Marie, 283

Chambers, Jessie, 176, 404

Chambers, Robert, 88

Chamoiseau, Patrick, 220, 382

Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold’em (Cloutier), 157

Chance (Conrad), 45, 90

Chandler, Raymond, 23, 97, 102, 231, 303, 333

Chaneysville Incident, The (Bradley), 250

Chang, Eileen, 285

Chang Chong Chen, 140

Chaplin, Charlie, 20, 110, 278, 329

Chapman, John Jay, 349

Chapsal, Madeleine, 168

Chariots of the Gods? (von Däniken), 162

Charles II, 249, 397

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl), 39, 40

Charlie Chan (Huang), 221

Charlotte’s Web (White), 133

Charques, R. D., 89

Charterhouse of Parma, The (Stendhal), 160, 278

Chase, Rev. Frank, 101

Châtelet, Marquise de, 160

Chatterton (Ackroyd), 267

Chatterton, Thomas, 96, 267, 355

Chatwin, Bruce, 23, 53

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 37–38, 103, 105, 123, 128, 336

Cheese and the Worms, The (Ginzburg), 46

Cheever (Bailey), 83

Cheever, John, xiii, 73, 116, 122, 166, 174, 189, 191, 193

Chekhov, Anton, 22, 53, 93, 99, 210, 219, 288

Chemical History of a Candle, The (Faraday), 379

Chéri (Colette), 65, 214, 390

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, 121, 151, 208

Cherryh, C. J., 278

Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov), 22

Chesnut, Mary, 102

Chesnutt, Charles W., 151, 360

Chesterton, G. K., 187, 268, 363

Cheyenne Autumn (Sandoz), 188

Chick, Jack T., 118

Child, Harold Hannyngton, 246

Child, Julia, 108, 116, 256, 313

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron), 81

Childers, Erskine, 290, 369

Child of the Century, A (Hecht), 186, 211

Children of Gebelaawi (Mahfouz), 325

Children of Men, The (James), 3, 5

“Child’s Christmas in Wales, A” (Thomas), 378

Chilly Scenes of Winter (Beattie), 379

Chimes, The (Dickens), 348

“Chipmunk Song, The,” 179

Chomsky, Noam, 386

Chopin, Kate, 47, 167

Chopping, Richard, 244

Christabel (Coleridge), 175

Christie, Agatha, 17, 225, 251, 292, 382

Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 348, 377–78, 403

Christmas Story, A, 378

Christopher, Nicholas, 395

Chronic City (Lethem), 349

Churchill, Winston, 158, 178

Cibber, Colley, 390

Cimino, Michael, 199

Cinnamon Shops (Schulz), 121

Cioran, E. M., 193

Cisneros, Sandra, 249, 375, 399

Cities of the Plain (Proust), 80, 118

Citizen Kane, 140

City of Night (Rechy), 58

Clampitt, Amy, 287

Clancy, Tom, 117

Clark, Tom, 386

Clarke, Arthur C., 17, 90, 228

Clarke, Susanna, 191, 282, 346

Clavell, James, 283

Cleary, Beverly, 117

Clemenceau, Georges, 18

Clemens, Samuel. See Twain, Mark

Clifton, Lucille, 200

“Clink” (Orwell), 398

Clockers (Price), 173

Clockwork Orange, A (Burgess), 90, 153

Clotel (Brown), 355

Cloud Atlas (Mitchell), 67, 76, 222

Clough, Brian, 229

Cloutier, T. J., 157

Clowes, Daniel, 63, 119

Coates, Robert M., 118

Coben, Harlan, 9

Cocteau, Jean, 224, 322

Codman, Ogden, 382

Coe, Jonathan, 44, 215

Coetzee, J. M., 48, 149

Cole, Teju, 297

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 62, 116, 175, 212, 221, 233, 281, 332, 358, 381, 406

Colet, Louise, 131, 319

Colette, 33, 65, 173, 174, 214, 389, 390

Colfer, Eoin, 153

Collected Poems (Brodsky), 294

Collected Stories (Dahl), 382

Collier, John Payne, 36

Collier’s, 338

Collins, Jackie, 315

Collins, Suzanne, 147, 253

Collins, Wilkie, 234, 300, 366

Colonel’s Dream, The (Chesnutt), 151

Color of Money, The (Tevis), 252

Colwin, Laurie, 335

Combat, 146

Combe, George, 360

Comédie humaine (Balzac), 317

“Come On-a My House,” 179

Comfort, Alex, 174

Comforters, The (Spark), 402

Coming of Age in Samoa (Mead), 17

Common Sense (Paine), 15

Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 193, 270, 317

Concrete Island (Ballard), 127

Condon, Richard, 220

Confederacy of Dunces, A (Toole), 76, 386

Confessions (Augustine), 130, 131

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (de Quincey), 318

Confidence-Man, The (Melville), 105, 106

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (Twain), 194

Connell, Evan S., 260

Connelly, Michael, 159

Connolly, Cyril, 371

Connors, Philip, 238

Conover, Ted, 410

Conquest, Robert, 86

Conrad, Joseph, 20, 36, 45, 53, 57, 74, 90, 93, 121, 246, 270, 382

Conroy, Frank, 111, 195

Conroy, Pat, 337

Conspiracy of Pontiac, The (Parkman), 168

Conversations with Children on the Gospels (Alcott), 250

Conway, Jill Ker, 320

Cookson, Catherine, 184

Cooper, Dennis, 15

Cooper, James Fenimore, 292, 357

Cooper, Merian C., 222

Coover, Robert, 21, 173

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 163

Cop Hater (McBain), 232

Coppola, Eleanor, 233, 326

Cornwell, Patricia, 180, 182

Corpse Had a Familiar Face, The (Buchanan), 65

Corrections, The (Franzen), 301, 375, 392

Corsair, 15

Cortázar, Julio, 51, 403

Corvo, Baron, 337

Cosmicomics (Calvino), 47

Cosmopolitan, 90

Cottin, Letty, 90

Cotton-Pickers, The (Traven), 248

Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas), 67, 75

Country Driving (Hessler), 372

Coupland, Douglas, 409

Courlander, Harold, 328

Cousteau, Jacques, 198

Coward, Noel, 124, 395

Cowen, Tyler, 26

Cowley, Malcolm, 98, 142, 180, 252, 265, 293

Coxe, Harold, 244

Crais, Robert, 125

Crane, Hart, 112, 132, 150, 229

Crane, Stephen, 70, 178, 293, 298, 393

crashes: bicycle, 289; car, 127, 157, 193, 256, 346; motorcycle, 135, 248, 256; plane, 131, 409; train, 182

Crawdaddy!, 42

Crazy Horse (Sandoz), 188

Creeley, Robert, 160

Crichton, Michael, 334

Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky), 208, 315

Criterion, The, 72

Critical Essays (Orwell), 55

Cromwell, Thomas, 30

Cronin, Anthony, 190

Cronkhite’s Clocks (Wilson), 20

Crosby, Richard, 113

Cross, John, 201

Crouse, Timothy, 177

Croves, Hal, 97

Crowley, Aleister, 300, 380

Crowther, Bosley, 332

Crumb, Robert, 273

Crumley, James, 323

Crying of Lot 49, The (Pynchon), 80

Culture of Cities, The (Mumford), 9

Cummings, E. E., 325

Cunningham, Michael, 199, 351, 367

Cunningham, Valerie, 154

Curious George (Rey), 229

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The (Haddon), 266

Custer, George Armstrong, 257, 260

Czyżewska, Elżbieta, 186

 

Dahl, Roald, 39, 40, 131, 290, 312, 368, 382

Dahlberg, Edward, 66

Daisy Miller (James), 385

d’Alembert, Jean le Rond, 293

Damascus (Beard), 346

Damned Utd, The (Peace), 229

Dana, Richard Henry, 78, 244

Dance to the Music of Time, A (Powell), 214

Dance with Dragons, A (Martin), 151

Dangerous Liaisons, The (Laclos), 383

Dangling Man (Bellow), 94

Daniel Deronda (Eliot), 286

Danielewski, Mark Z., 97

d’Annunzio, Gabriele, 305

Danny the Champion of the World (Dahl), 312

Dante Alighieri, 81, 139, 181, 291

Danticat, Edwidge, 340

Dark Legend (Wertham), 385

Darnton, Robert, 149

Darwin, Charles, 16, 38, 51, 88, 99, 124, 186, 209, 263, 294, 312, 368, 369

“Darwin Among the Machines” (Butler), 186

Darwin Among the Machines (Dyson), 186

Darwish, Mahmoud, 252

Daudet, Alphonse, 108, 395

Daughter of Time, The (Tey), 214

Davenport, Guy, 9, 305

David Boring (Clowes), 63

David Copperfield (Dickens), 59, 71, 410

Davie, Donald, 77

Davies, Robertson, 381, 406

Davies, Russell, 28

Davis, Amanda, 85

Davis, H. L., 342

Davis, Natalie Zemon, 289

Davis, Stephen, 236

Dawkins, Richard, 97

Day, Dorothy, 374

day jobs: advertising, 19, 112; airline ticket agent, 404; architectural assistant, 144; bank secretary, 369; cargo shipping, 340; cruise staff, 54; custom house, 14, 256; detective, 374; factory manager, 14; fire lookout, 238; gentleman’s companion, 352; handicrafts teacher, 114; insurance, 128; label-pasting, 59; lawyer, 18, 44; legal stenography, 151; lens grinder, 325; librarian, 13, 149, 168, 169, 391; medicine, 53, 60, 288, 297; mine supervisor, 372; perfume extraction, 340; postal inspector, 234; prep chef, 40; prison guard, 410; public relations, 338, 373; real estate clerk, 68; screenwriter, 146, 229, 270, 303, 319, 333, 347, 384, 401; spy, 249, 306; steamboat pilot, 75; stenographic manager, 122; teacher, 166, 237, 253, 291, 295; treasure recovery, 340; wholesale hosiery, 340; window trimmer, 156

“Day Lady Died, The” (O’Hara), 190

Day of the Locust, The (West), 401

“Dead, The” (Joyce), 105

Dead Cert (Francis), 95

Dead Souls (Gogol), 235

Dean, John, 192

Dear Abby. See Phillips, Pauline

de Assis, Machado, 340

Death and Life of Great American Cities, The (Jacobs), 9

Death Comes for the Archbishop (Cather), 210

Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway), 254

Death in the Family, A (Agee), 157

Death in Venice (Mann), 139, 165

Death of Ivan Ilyich, The (Tolstoy), 43, 345

Death of Jim Loney, The (Welch), 345

“Death of the Author, The” (Barthes), 97

Death Ship, The (Traven), 248

de Beauvoir, Simone. See Beauvoir, Simone de

Debo, Angie, 35, 60

debt, 45, 49, 59, 82, 91, 115, 161, 249, 271, 286, 311, 315, 340, 381, 388

Debussy, Claude, 60, 187

December (Kluge and Richter), 379

“Declaration of the Rights of Women” (de Gouges), 348

Decoration of Houses, The (Wharton and Codman), 382

Deepness in the Sky, A (Vinge), 6

Defense, The (Nabokov), 303

Defoe, Daniel, 120, 129, 155, 340

d’Églantine, Fabre, 205–6

de Gouges, Olympe, 348

Deighton, Len, 57

de Jaucourt, Chevalier, 293

Delany, Samuel R., 106

Deleuze, Gilles, 23

DeLillo, Don, 277, 304, 314, 324, 365

de Lint, Charles, 401

Deliverance (Dickey), 277, 291

de Man, Paul, 297

Democracy (Adams), 385

Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 150

Demolished Man, The (Bester), 54

Dennis, E. S., 328

de Quincey, Thomas, 318, 387

Derrida, Jacques, 320

de Sade, Marquis, 381

Desai, Anita, 197

Descartes, René, 21, 50

de Selby, 78

Desert Solitaire (Abbey), 106

Desire Caught by the Tail (Picasso), 90

de Staël, Madame, 218, 222

Deux Magots, Les, 122, 356

Devil and Sherlock Holmes, The (Grann), 98

Devil in a Blue Dress (Mosley), 198

Devon Loch, 95

DeVoto, Avis, 108, 313

DeVoto, Bernard, 108, 358

de Waal, Edmund, 307

Dewey, John, 174

Dewey, Melvil, 405

DeWitt, Helen, 91

Dharma Bums, The (Kerouac), 295

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo), 61

Diamond, Jared, 287

Dianetics (Hubbard), 148

Di Piero, W. S., 184

di Prima, Diane, 249

Diary of Anaïs Nin, The, 233

Diary of a Young Girl, The (Frank), 100, 188, 198

Dias, Selma Vaz, 350

Díaz, Junot, 169, 410

Dibbell, Carola, 410

Dick, Philip K., xiv, 5, 8, 54, 59, 73, 173, 213, 290, 395

Dickens, Charles, 46, 59, 71, 92, 120, 140, 182, 185, 214, 234, 298, 301, 328, 343–44, 345, 348, 366, 377–78, 379, 402, 403, 410

Dickey, James, 24, 217, 277, 291

Dick Gibson Show, The (Elkin), 407

Dickinson, Emily, 11, 26, 43, 69, 103, 120, 134, 145, 154, 389

Dictionary of the English Language, A (Johnson), 135

Diderot, Denis, 28, 239, 293

Didion, Joan, 115, 375, 384, 402, 409

Dietrich, Marlene, 203, 339, 340

Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 406

Dillard, Annie, 135

Dinesen, Isak, 122, 148, 274, 284

Dingbat Family, The (Herriman), 234

Dinnage, Rosemary, 375

Disch, Thomas M., 41

diseases: ALS, 19; cancer, 12, 93, 122, 149, 288, 298, 354, 355, 366, 367, 393; chicken pox, 93; heart failure, 140, 183, 196, 222, 288, 301, 356, 409; lockjaw, 16; scarlet fever, 32, 85; stroke, 99, 114, 253, 393; tuberculosis, 50, 79, 93, 109, 116, 118, 245, 324, 374; yellow fever, 243, 268

Disgrace (Coetzee), 149

Disney, Walt, 152, 163, 253, 384

Dispatches (Herr), 46

Disraeli, Benjamin, 80, 388

Ditko, Steve, 347

Ditzen, Rudolf. See Fallada, Hans

Divine Comedy (Dante), 81, 181

Divine Invasions, The (Dick), 59

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick), 5, 8

Doctorow, E. L., 11, 28, 70, 93, 114

Dodgson, Charles. See Carroll, Lewis

Doerr, Harriet, 369

Dog of the South, The (Portis), 311

Dolphin, The (Lowell), 92

Dombey and Son (Dickens), 378

Domestic Manners of the Americans (Trollope), 49

Don Juan (Byron), 142

Donleavy, J. P., 223

Donoghue, Denis, 83

Donoghue, Emma, 335

Don Quixote (Cervantes), 21, 285, 307, 335, 342, 386

Doors of Perception, The (Huxley), 143

Dopefiend (Goines), 330

dord, 67

Dos Passos, John, 112, 155, 305, 346, 364

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 99, 161, 208, 217, 311, 315, 341, 387, 401

Double Down (Barthelme and Barthelme), 391

Double Helix, The (Watson), 52

Double Indemnity (Cain), 176, 333

Douglas, James, 361

Douglas, Lord Alfred, 107

Douglass, Frederick, 38, 39, 59, 280

Dowd, Siobhan, 264

Doyle, Arthur Conan, xiv, 92, 98, 161, 200, 215, 222, 252, 268, 297, 320, 327, 382

Drabble, Margaret, 178

Dracula (Stoker), 165, 254, 310

Dreamer (Johnson), 109

“Dream Song #149” (Berryman), 333

Dred (Stowe), 33

Dreiser, Theodore, 20, 31, 43, 111, 185, 270, 354, 404

Drew, Nancy, 303

Dreyfus, Alfred, 18, 177

Drink Before the War, A (Lehane), 202

Drinker, The (Fallada), 36

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Packer), 327

Dr. Strangelove, 20, 347

Drucker, Peter, 356, 383

drugs: cocaine, 283, 297; 350; gelselminum, 297; L-DOPA, 233; LSD, 367; marijuana, 362; mescaline, 143; opium, 318; sleeping pills, 11, 231

Drum-Taps (Whitman), 361

Drury, Allen, 279

Dryden, John, 140, 397

Dryden, Ken, 32

Dubliners (Joyce), 98

Du Bois, W. E. B., 62, 245

Dubus, Andre, 63, 231

Dubus, Andre, III, 288

Du Camp, Maxime, 337

Ducasse, Isidore. See Lautréamont, Comte de

Ducornet, Rikki, 124

duels, 32, 299, 372

Duke of Deception, The (Wolff), 367

Dumas, Alexandre, 67, 75, 135, 206, 232, 384

du Maurier, Daphne, 152, 383

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 48

Duncan, Robert, 42

Dunciad, The (Pope), 187

Dunne, John Gregory, 409

Dunnett, Dorothy, 354

Durade, François d’Albert, 329

Duras, Marguerite, 109

du Tilh, Arnaud, 289

Dyer, Geoff, 178, 282

Dylan, Bob, 135, 267

 

“Easter, 1916” (Yeats), 129

Eastman, Max, 254

Eastman, Monk, 262

Eastman, P. D., 370

East of Eden (Steinbeck), 335

Eastward Ho! (Jonson), 278

Ebert, Roger, 109, 112

Ecce Homo (Nietzsche), 8

Eco, Umberto, 10

Eddy, Mary Baker, 382

Edel, Leon, 282

Edmonds, David, 336

Education of Henry Adams, The, 352, 385

Edward III, 128

Edwards, Jonathan, 93

Edwards, Thomas R., 350

Effi Briest (Fontane), 372

Egan, Jennifer, 153, 284

Eggers, Dave, 83, 274

Eggleston, William, 235

Egoist, The, 41

Ehrenreich, Barbara, 269

Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt), 116

Eidinow, John, 336

Eighner, Lars, 25

“Eight or Nine Words About Letter-Writing” (Carroll), 340

1876 (Vidal), 383

84, Charing Cross Road (Hanff), 316

Eiseley, Loren, 217

Eisenstein, Sergei, 73

Eisner, Will, 8

Either/Or (Kierkegaard), 59

Election (Perrotta), 126

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The (Wolfe), 406

Elegy for Iris (Bayley), 399

Elementary Particles, The (Houellebecq), 364

Elements of Style, The (Strunk and White), 107

Eliot, George, 8, 155, 201, 210, 252, 286, 313, 329, 336, 360, 367, 368, 401

Eliot, T. S., 29, 35, 74, 103–4, 105, 180, 261, 303

Elizabeth I, 60, 107, 371

Elizabeth II, 133

Elkin, Stanley, 76, 170, 230, 407

Elkind, Peter, 54

Ellis, Bret Easton, 78

Ellis, Havelock, 216

Ellison, Ralph, 45, 72, 100, 110, 119, 121, 124, 172, 286, 373, 374, 406

Ellmann, Richard, 86, 366

Ellroy, James, 75, 195, 363

Elman, Richard, 398

Emerick, Geoff, 281

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 58, 85, 132, 144, 145, 212, 227, 271, 351, 355

Emigrants, The (Sebald), 101, 409

Emma (Austen), 117

Emmett Lawler (Tully), 329

Emperor, The (Kapuściński), 394

Emperor’s Children, The (Messud), 170

Encyclopædia Britannica, 84, 102, 270, 387

Encyclopédie, 28, 293

Endless Love (Spencer), 255

Enduring Love (McEwan), 131

Endymion (Keats), 319

Engels, Friedrich, 248

English, Thomas Dunn, 56

English Patient, The (Ondaatje), 288

English Review, The, 121

Enigma of Arrival, The (Naipaul), 244

Enright, Anne, 322

Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Orton), 133

Ephron, Nora, 158

Ephrussi, Charles, 307

Epstein, Barbara, 40, 189

Epstein, Jason, 40

Epstein, Joseph, 22

Equiano, Olaudah, 102

Erasmus, 220

Erdrich, Louise, 123, 180

Erewhon (Butler), 186

Erickson, Steve, 125

Ernie Pook’s Comeek (Barry), 248

“Errand” (Carver), 93

Esquire, 106, 112, 286, 328, 354

Essays (Montaigne), 235, 339

Esther (Adams), 385

Esty, William, 396

Eugene Onegin (Pushkin), 32

Eugenides, Jeffrey, 13, 79

Evans, Marian. See Eliot, George

Evans, Walker, 122, 191, 348

Evelina (Burney), 245

Evergreen Review, 58

Evers, Medgar, 185

“Everybody’s Protest Novel” (Baldwin), 356

Every Man in His Humour (Jonson), 299

Everything Is Illuminated (Foer), 121

Excellent Women (Pym), 242, 243

executions, 30, 46, 49, 115, 119, 129, 192, 312, 346; in fiction, 184, 194, 323; mock, 401; observed, 95, 358; of writers, 154, 206, 317, 369

Executioner’s Song, The (Mailer), 346

Exley, Frederick, 189, 190, 356

Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, The (Powell), 273

 

Faber, Michel, 130

Fable, A (Faulkner), 104

Fabrique des Romans (Mirecourt), 75

Fadiman, Anne, 74, 250

Fadiman, Clifton, 101, 176, 193

Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 349

Fairfield, Cecily. See West, Rebecca

Fallada, Hans, 36, 335

“Fall River Axe Murders, The” (Carter), 247

Faludi, Susan, 123

Family, The (Sanders), 251

Fanon, Frantz, 385

Fan’s Notes, A (Exley), 356

Fante, John, 113

Faraday, Michael, 379

Farewell, My Lovely (Chandler), 102

Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), 78, 238, 306

Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), 39

Fariña, Richard, 135, 267

Farrell, James T., 265

Farrell, J. G., 254, 298

Farrow, Mia, 75, 373

Fast, Howard, 83, 200

Fast and Loose (Wharton), 12

Fatal Vision (McGinniss), 288

Father and Son (Gosse), 26

Father Goose (Baum), 156, 320

fathers, 59, 66, 129, 215, 245, 338, 372; advice, 14, 215, 327; apologies to, 62, 77; death of, 98, 157, 373, 393; estranged, 26, 91, 102, 107, 239, 257; in fiction, 77, 87, 91, 152, 157, 175, 186, 225, 294, 312, 327, 355, 365, 384; in memoirs, 26, 60, 175, 188, 237, 321, 332, 340; tyrannical, 159, 257; writers as, 106, 149, 186, 215, 236, 264, 289

Faulkner, William, 101, 104, 107, 113, 124, 125, 134, 144, 146, 185, 214, 243, 252, 302, 336

Fawcett, Farrah, 263

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson), 325

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 (Thompson), 101, 120, 177

Fearful Symmetry (Frye), 321

Fearing, Kenneth, 199

Feast of Crows, A (Martin), 151

Federalist Papers, The (Hamilton, Madison, and Jay), 208

Feiffer, Jules, 31

Female Eunuch, The (Greer), 169

Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan), 58, 98

Fenton, James, 130

Ferber, Edna, 258

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 95

Fermor, Patrick Leigh, 183

Fever Pitch (Hornby), 291

Feynman, Richard, 54

Fidrych, Mark, 386

Field Guide to the Birds, A (Peterson), 132

Fielding, Helen, 3, 58

Fielding, Henry, 319

Fields, James T., 50

Fields, W. C., 118, 184, 329, 386

Fifth Business (Davies), 406

Fifty Shades of Grey (James), 159

Filth (Welsh), 304

Final Cut (Bach), 199

Financier, The (Dreiser), 43

Findley, Timothy, 194

Finger! Finger! (Keeler), 27

Finishing Touch, The (Brophy), 301

Firbank, Ronald, 160

Fire Season (Connors), 238

First Folio (Shakespeare), 151, 353

Fisher, M. F. K., 18, 111, 112, 195

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 82, 108, 115, 123, 156, 193, 213, 215, 217, 252, 281, 301, 359, 364, 399, 400, 401

Fitzgerald, John D., 207

Fitzgerald, Penelope, 396

Fitzgerald, Zelda, 81, 108

Fitzhugh, Louise, 277, 364

Flanner, Janet, 84

Flappers and Philosophers (Fitzgerald), 281

Flash Gordon (Raymond), 34

Flaubert, Gustave, 108, 109, 118, 131, 133, 145, 147, 234, 280, 319, 337, 391, 410

Fleiss, Wilhelm, 232

Fleming, Ian, 167, 244, 255, 306

Fletcher, Constance, 282

Flight of the Enchanter, The (Murdoch), 15

Flight to Canada (Reed), 73

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (Hofstadter), 223

Flush (Woolf), 217

Flye, Father James Harold, 191

Flynn, Errol, 325

Flynn, Gillian, 208

Foer, Jonathan Safran, 121

Foghat, 334

Fogle, James, 266

Fontane, Theodor, 372

Fool’s Errand, A (Tourgée), 65

Foote, Shelby, 362

For Better or For Worse (Johnston), 126

Ford, Ford Madox, xiv, 185, 247, 259, 396

Ford, Jesse Hill, 361

Ford, Richard, 55, 65, 73, 94, 104, 105, 125, 206, 216, 273, 328

Forester, C. S., 107, 131

Forever Amber (Winsor), 328

Fornés, Maria Irene, 153

Forster, E. M., 6, 23, 33, 41, 58, 158, 159, 180, 251, 257, 314, 318, 356, 361, 365

Forster, John, 230

Fort, Charles, 31

Fortress of Solitude, The (Lethem), 272

Fortune, 54, 191

Fortune’s Daughter (Hoffman), 94

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway), 312, 365

Foucault, Michel, 168, 198

Foundation (Asimov), 85

Fountain, Ben, 370

Fountainhead, The (Rand), 153, 360

Fourier, Charles, 321

Four Quartets, The (Eliot), 180

Fowler, H. W., 405

Fowles, John, 350

Fox, Paula, 127

Frame, Janet, 34, 405

Franchiser, The (Elkin), 230

Francis, Dick, 53, 95

Frank, Anne, 100, 185, 188, 198, 379

Frank, Robert, 352, 354

Frank, Thomas, 34

Frankenstein (Shelley), 82, 189, 287, 310, 344, 345

Frankl, Viktor, 279

Franklin, Benjamin, 4, 122, 239

Franklin, John Hope, 96, 245

Frank Muir Book, The, 7

“Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” (Talese), 354

Franzen, Jonathan, 111, 141, 260, 301, 363, 375, 392

Fraser, George MacDonald, 7

Fraser, Lindsay, 201

Frazer, James George, 146

Frazier, Charles, 349

Frazier, Ian, 55, 272, 288

Freewoman, The, 54

Freire, Paulo, 296

French, Tana, 105

Freud, Sigmund, 124, 127, 145, 232, 285, 298, 300, 349

Frey, James, 335

Friedan, Betty, 43, 58, 98

Friedman, Milton, 361, 368

Friends of Eddie Coyle, The (Higgins), 284, 345

Frisch, Max, 109

Frog and Toad Are Friends (Lobel), 139

From the Diary of a Snail (Grass), 331

Front Page, The (Hecht and MacArthur), 211

Frost, Robert, 34, 35, 40, 261, 407

Frye, Northrop, 28, 321

Fuller, Buckminster, 209

Fuller, Margaret, 162, 227, 351

Fun Home (Bechdel), 60, 362

Furies, The (Hobhouse), 138

Furst, Alan, 59

Fussell, Paul, 86, 162

 

Gabaldon, Diana, 16

Gaddis, William, 408

Gaiman, Neil, 151, 355

Gaines, Bill, 176

Gaines, Ernest J., 20

Gaitskill, Mary, 356

Galápagos Islands, 294, 312

Galeano, Eduardo, 280

Galilei, Galileo, 13, 61

Gallant, Mavis, 208, 254

Gambit (Stout), 323

Gambler, The (Dostoyevsky), 311, 315

gambling, 47, 91, 110, 311, 315, 389; blackjack, 391; poker, 157, 271; roulette, 161

Game, The (Dryden), 32

Gangs of New York, The (Asbury), 101, 262

García Lorca, Federico, 262, 279

García Marquéz, Gabriel, 51, 73, 77, 310, 330

Garden of Forking Paths, The (Borges), 13

Gardner, Ava, 328

Gardner, Erle Stanley, 82

Gardner, John, 89, 256, 291

Gardner, Martin, 161

Garner, Dwight, 384

Garner, Margaret, 33

Garrett, George, 164

Gaskell, Elizabeth, 306

Gass, William, 238

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 293

Gates, Lewis E., 58

Gaudy Night (Sayers), 82, 164

Gay, John, 203

Geertz, Clifford, 266

Geisel, Ted. See Seuss, Dr.

Gellhorn, Martha, 54

Genet, Jean, 63, 175, 224, 398

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Loos), 93

George, Jean Craighead, 210

George, Peter, 347

Gernsback, Hugo, 259

“Get Off of My Cloud,” 350

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (James), 311

Ghost Story (Straub), 310

Ghost Writer, The (Roth), 379

Gibbon, Edward, 21, 200, 265, 319, 326

Gibbs, Wolcott, 10

Gibran, Kahlil, 11

Gibson, William, 54, 88, 180

Gide, André, 16, 58, 262, 389, 390

Gilbert, Elizabeth, 226

Gilbert, Harriett, 216

Gilbert, Jack, 358

Gilbert, W. S., 168

Gilead (Robinson), 117

Gill, Brendan, 406

Gill, Eric, 61

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 260

Gilmore, Gary, 346

Gilmore, Mikal, 346

Ginger Man, The (Donleavy), 223

Gingrich, Arnold, 112

Ginsberg, Allen, 66, 110, 127, 146, 217, 318, 359, 406

Ginzburg, Carlo, 46

Ginzburg, Natalia, 222

Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin), 396

“Girl in the Black Helmet, The” (Tynan), 142

Girl Who Played with Fire, The (Larsson), 83

Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (Larsson), 314, 399

Girodias, Maurice, 223

Giroux, Robert, 127

Gissing, George, 237, 292, 345, 367, 384, 407

Gladstone, William Ewart, 80, 201

Gladwell, Malcolm, 280

Glaspell, Susan, 235

Glass, Julia, 94, 173

Glass, Stephen, 147

Glass Key, The (Hammett), 130

Glass Menagerie, The (Williams), 197

Gleason, Jackie, 252, 314

Globe Theatre, 60, 288

Glory of Their Times, The (Ritter), 180

Glück, Louise, 103

Godden, Rumer, 353

Gödel, Escher, Bach (Hofstadter), 401

Godfather, The (Puzo), 269

Godwin, Mary. See Shelley, Mary

Godwin, William, 74, 112, 164, 287

Goebbels, Joseph, 36, 190

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 25, 93, 271, 341

Gogol, Nikolai, 90

Goines, Donald, 330, 332

Going Clear (Wright), 262

Golden Age, The (Grahame), 369

Golden Bowl, The (James), 368

Golden Notebook, The (Lessing), 12

Golding, William, 192, 291

Goldman, Francisco, 197

Goldman, William, 229

Gold Rush, The, 20

Goldstein, Al, 174

Goldsworthy, Adrian, 71

Gombrich, E. H., 348

Gombrowicz, Witold, 232

Goncourt, Edmond de, 108, 117, 118

Gone (Adler), 18, 160

Gone Girl (Flynn), 208

Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 72, 135, 260, 293

Goodheart, Adam, 193

Goodis, David, 12

Good Morning, Midnight (Rhys), 350

Goodnight Moon (Brown), 280, 358

Good Soldier, The (Ford), xiv, 185, 247

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 9

Gordimer, Nadine, 262, 365, 395

Gordon, Caroline, 144, 317

Gordon, Mary, 399

Gordon-Reed, Annette, 364

Gorey, Edward, 61, 120, 187

Goscinny, René, 350

Gosse, Edmund, 26, 155

Gosse, Philip Henry, 26

Gottlieb, Robert, 134, 165

Gould, Chester, 150

Gould, Glenn, 253

Gould, Stephen Jay, 159

Gove, Philip B., 67

Gozzens, James Gould, 262

Grace, W. G., 268

Graebner, Clark, 285

Grafton, Sue, 129

Graham, Katherine, 225

Grahame, Kenneth, 149, 282, 369

Grandin, Temple, 272

Grann, David, 98

Grant, Robert, 341

Grant, Ulysses S., 111

Granta, 216

Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 142, 278

Grass, Günter, 331

Grau, Shirley Ann, 216

Graves, Robert, 386

Grealy, Lucy, 397

Great Brain Reforms, The (Fitzgerald), 207

Great Expectations (Dickens), 328, 403

Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 75, 115, 193, 213, 252

Great War and Modern Memory, The (Fussell), 86

Greeley, Horace, 26

Green, Henry, 14, 130, 143, 300, 340

Green, John, 267

Green, Peter Morris, 295

Green, Richard Lancelyn, 98

Greenaway, Kate, 351

Greenberg, Clement, 146

Greene, Graham, 108, 144, 178, 253, 313, 339, 393

Greening of America, The (Reich), 169

Greer, Andrew Sean, 159

Greer, Germaine, 34

Gregory, Lady, 86

Grey, Zane, 334

Griffin, John Howard, 286

Grigorovich, D. V., 99

Grimm, Jacob, 297

Grimod de La Reynière, Alexandre Balthazar Laurent, 6

Grisham, John, 47

Griswold, Rufus W., 26, 320, 355

Groening, Matt, 54

Grossman, David, 255

Grossman, Lev, 199

Grossman, Vasily, 391

Group, The (McCarthy), 172

Guerin, Veronica, 199

Guerre, Martin, 289

Guinness Book of Records, The (McWhirters), 289

Guisewite, Cathy, 282

Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzhenitsyn), 52

Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 337, 351

Gunn, Thom, 272

Guns of August, The (Tuchman), 242, 243, 253

Gunther, John, 168

Guralnick, Peter, 394

Gurganus, Allan, 184

Gutenberg, Johannes, 42

Guthrie, A. B., Jr., 131

Guthrie, Woody, 314

Guy Domville (James), 10

 

Habit of Being, The (O’Connor), 183

Hackett, Francis, 341

Haddon, Mark, 266

“Hadji Murat” (Tolstoy), 227

Hadrian the Seventh (Corvo), 337

Haggard, H. Rider, 195

Hailey, Arthur, 5, 110

Hajdu, David, 100

Halberstam, David, 30, 39, 46, 115, 186, 203, 380

Haldeman, H. R., 336

Haley, Alex, 49, 59, 163, 166, 194, 306, 328

Hall, Oakley, 151, 269

Hall, Radclyffe, 318, 361

Hallam, Arthur, 366

Halliwell, Kenneth, 133

Hamilton, Alexander, 208

Hamilton, Donald, 95

Hamilton, Ian, 321

Hamilton, Patrick, 88

Hamilton, William, 386

Hamlet (Shakespeare), 152, 189

Hammer of the Gods (Davis), 236

Hammett, Dashiell, 15, 29, 34, 40, 130, 166, 333, 374, 404

Hamsun, Knut, 58, 190, 387

Hand, Elizabeth, 100

Handey, Jack, 64

Handke, Peter, 385

Handler, Daniel, 67

Handmaid’s Tale, The (Atwood), 198

Hanff, Helene, 114, 316

Hannah, Barry, 128, 328

Hansberry, Lorraine, 17, 47, 163

Hansen, Ron, 108

Hańska, Eveline, 317

Harding, Paul, 117

Hard Revolution (Pelecanos), 109

Hardwick, Elizabeth, 40, 92, 173, 235

Hard Winter, A (Queneau), 225

Hardy, Thomas, 16, 28, 39, 115, 137, 139, 144, 159, 175, 200, 282, 292, 350, 370

Hare with Amber Eyes, The (de Waal), 307

Harington, Donald, 401

Harmonium (Stevens), 90, 284, 386

Harper, Marguerite E., 365

Harper’s, 22, 108, 115, 157, 314, 315

Harriet the Spy (Fitzhugh), 277

Harris, Charlaine, 370

Harris, E. Lynn, 231

Harris, Frank, 53, 301

Harris, Max, 231

Harris, Middleton, 17

Harrison, Harry, 258

Harrison, Jim, 362, 390

Harrison, M. John, 303

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Rowling), 235

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling), 239

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling), 199, 201

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. See Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Hart, Moss, 301, 399

Hartley, L. P., 392

Haruf, Kent, 63, 314

Hašek, Jaroslav, 8

Haslett, Adam, 229

Hathaway, Anne, 373

Haunting of Hill House, The (Jackson), 200

Havel, Václav, 397, 408

Hawkes, John, 154

Hawking, Stephen, 13

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 30, 50, 83, 158, 212, 256, 359

Hayden, Sterling, 20

Hayek, Friedrich von, 94

Hayes, Harold, 328

Hazlitt, William, 175, 295, 316

Hazzard, Shirley, 31, 35

H.D., 261, 304

Head, Bessie, 122

Hear the Wind Sing (Murakami), 106

Hearst, Patty, 334

Hearst, William Randolph, 22, 221, 257, 279

Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (McCullers), 177

Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 36, 57, 74

Hearts of Darkness, 326

Heat (Buford), 40

Heaven Is a Playground (Telander), 261

Heaven’s Gate, 199

Hecht, Ben, 31, 123, 186, 211

Hegel, G. W. F., 359

Heidegger, Martin, 165

Heilbrun, Carolyn, 320

Heinlein, Robert A., 112, 148, 215, 239, 247, 268, 361

Heinrich, Bernd, 39, 315

Heinrich, Will, 314

Heller, Joseph, 140, 333

Hell in a Very Small Place (Fall), 46

Hellman, Lillian, 193

Helprin, Mark, 201

Helter Skelter (Bugliosi and Gentry), 251

Helyar, John, 330

Hemings, Sally, 355, 364

Hemingses of Monticello, The (Gordon-Reed), 364

Hemingway, Ernest, 14, 78, 87, 92, 102, 123, 235, 238, 254, 286, 306, 312, 360, 364, 365; injuries, 29, 77, 112, 163, 193, 209, 248, 265, 346,

Hemon, Aleksandar, 286

Hempel, Amy, 393

Henie, Sonja, 61

Henry, O., 232, 246

Henry and Clara (Mallon), 119

Henry V (Shakespeare), 60

Henry VI, Part II (Shakespeare), 181

Henry VIII, 30, 133, 317

Henson, Matthew, 114

Herbert, Frank, 319

Herbert, George, 70, 108

Here, There, and Everywhere (Emerick), 281

Hergé, 140, 161, 223

Hernandez, Gilbert, 40

Hernandez, Jaime, 321

Hernani (Hugo), 64

Herr, Michael, 46, 256

Herriman, George, 130, 234

Hersey, John, 95, 163, 233, 249

Hersh, Seymour, 357

Herzl, Theodor, 211

Herzog (Bellow), 81

Herzog, Maurice, 154

Hesse, Hermann, 23, 114, 210

Hessler, Peter, 372

Hester, Betty, 183

Heyer, Georgette, 259

Heyerdahl, Thor, 247, 317

Heyward, DuBose, 274

Hicks, Granville, 191

Hicks, Tyler, 88

Higgins, George V., 284, 345, 351

Higginson, T. W., 43, 120

High Priestess, The (Grant), 341

Highsmith, Patricia, 24, 372

High Wind in Jamaica, A (Hughes), 84, 328, 351

Hill, Joe, 177

Hillenbrand, Laura, 82, 154, 166

Hillerman, Tony, 337

Himes, Chester, 106, 357

Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 251

Hinton, S. E., 230, 270

Hiroshima (Hersey), 233, 249

His Dark Materials (Pullman), 96

Historical Dictionary of American Slang (Lighter), 254

History of England, The (Austen), 371

History of England, The (Goldsmith), 371

History of Europe, A (Pirenne), 94

History of India, The (Mill), 215

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Gibbon), 200, 326

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, The (Williams), 245

History of the Standard Oil Company, The (Tarbell), 66

Hitchcock, Alfred, 303, 383

Hitchens, Christopher, 285, 354, 394

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (Adams), 323, 402

Hitler, Adolf, 130, 163, 190, 341, 379

Hoag, Tami, 25

Hoagland, Edward, 235, 400

hoaxes, 25, 53, 74, 231, 244, 300, 342, 382; false biographies, 45, 298; false memoirs, 335; forgeries, 130; forgeries (Shakespeare), 36, 107; frauds, 147, 367, 370; pseudonyms, 97, 225, 228, 265, 369; pranks, 86, 133, 174, 189, 373; spoofs, 359

Hoban, Russell, 43, 232

Hobbes, Thomas, 110

Hobbit, The (Tolkien), 43, 63, 152, 195, 299

Hobhouse, Janet, 138

Hobhouse, John Cam, 142, 156

Hobsbawm, Eric, 312

Hoffer, Eric, 233, 296

Hoffman, Alice, 87, 94

Hoffmann, E. T. A., 29

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 265

Hofstadter, Carol Ann Brush, 401

Hofstadter, Douglas, 223, 401

Hofstadter, Richard, 335

Holiday, Billie, 190

holidays: autumnal equinox, 92, 300; Boxing Day, 405; Carnival, 62; Christmas, 356, 375, 377–78, 379, 398, 402, 403, 404; Day of the Dead, 347; Easter, 70, 98, 100, 104, 109, 112, 113, 115, 117, 121, 128, 129; Fourth of July, 206–7, 208, 211, 212; Halloween, 342; Lent, 70; Mardi Gras, 58, 68, 70, 71, 73; May Day, 137; Memorial Day, 138, 159; Mother’s Day, 138; New Year’s, 3, 6, 410; Thanksgiving, 345, 368, 370, 372; Whitsun, 139, 167, 176

Hollinghurst, Alan, 165, 209, 350

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 144

Holmes, Sherlock, 92, 98, 297, 320

Homes, A. M., 169, 397

Hongo, Garrett, 169

Hooker, Joseph Dalton, 16

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 138, 139, 181

Hopkinson, Nalo, 399

Horace, 372

Hornby, Nick, 291

Horne, Lena, 163

Hors d’Oeuvre and Canapés (Beard), 134

Hosseini, Khaled, 75

Hotel du Lac (Brookner), 277

Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails (Swofford), 321

Hot Rock, The (Westlake), 199

Houdini, Harry, 74, 306

Houellebecq, Michel, 65, 364

Hours, The (Cunningham), 367

House Behind the Cedars, The (Chesnutt), 151

House for Mr. Biswas, A (Naipaul), 306

Household, Geoffrey, 315

Household Words, 378

Housekeeping (Robinson), 181

House Made of Dawn (Momaday), 236

House of Holes (Baker), 254

House of Leaves (Danielewski), 97

House of Mirth, The (Wharton), 277, 323, 360, 375

House Without a Key, The (Biggers), 221

Howard, Richard, 18

Howard, Robert E., 184

Howards End (Forster), 356, 365

Howe, Irving, 222

Howe, Julia Ward, 43

Howells, William Dean, 48, 150, 358, 388

How I Became Hettie Jones, 324

“How It Feels to Be Forcibly Fed” (Barnes), 283

Howl (Ginsberg), 318

Hoyle, Edmond, 272

Hoyle, Fred, 263

Hubbard, L. Ron, 29, 148

Hughes, Howard, 53

Hughes, Langston, 24, 40, 47, 157, 284, 385, 387, 406

Hughes, Richard, 84, 124, 328, 351

Hughes, Robert, 249

Hughes, Ted, 39, 56, 64, 106, 339

Hugo, Richard, 333

Hugo, Victor, 64, 161, 214, 220

Hull, John M., 55

Human Stain, The (Roth), 284

Humbert, Humbert, 6, 361

Hunger (Hamsun), 387

Hunger Games (Collins), 147

Hungry Hearts (Yezierska), 396

Hunt, Charlotte, 258

Hunt, Leigh, 298, 316, 380

Hunter, Evan. See McBain, Ed

Hurst, Fannie, 62

Hurston, Zora Neale, xv, 12, 36, 149, 258, 314, 316, 327, 387, 398

Hustler, The (Tevis), 252

Huston, John, 97, 268

Hutchinson, Mary, 117

Hutchinson, Percy, 306

Huxley, Aldous, 143, 151, 234, 295, 367, 384

Huxley, Elspeth, 231

Huxley, Laura, 151, 367

Huygens, Christiaan, 325

Huysmans, J.-K., 118, 151

Hyde-Lees, Georgie, 338

 

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 115

I Am a Strange Loop (Hofstadter), 401

Ibsen, Henrik, 54, 162, 356

Ice Storm, The (Moody), 345, 368

Ice-T, 330

Ideal Husband, An (Wilde), 10

“Idea of Order at Key West, The” (Stevens), 128

Idiot, The (Dostoyevsky), 401

If This Is a Man. See Survival in Auschwitz

I Killed Lincoln at 10:13! (Keeler), 27

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou), 172

I, Libertine (Ewing), 244

I Lost It at the Movies (Kael), 82

“Image of Africa, An” (Achebe), 57

In a Lonely Place (Hughes), 87

“In Another Country” (Hemingway), 123

“In California: Morning, Evening, Late January” (Levertov), 5

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs), 203

In Cold Blood (Capote), 21, 119, 251, 373

Independence Day (Ford), 125, 206

Infinite Jest (Wallace), 51, 362

Ingersoll, Robert, 296

In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash (Shepherd), 378

In Hazard (Hughes), 351

Innocent, The (McEwan), 154

Innocent Voyage, An. See High Wind in Jamaica, A

In Parenthesis (Jones), 326

In Search of Lost Time (Proust), 16, 80, 118, 145, 257, 307

Instant Replay (Kramer), 398

Instead of a Letter (Athill), 400

Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud), 124, 232, 349

In the Land of Wonderful Dreams (McCay), 279

In the Night Kitchen (Sendak), 183

Into Thin Air (Krakauer), 150

Invisible Man (Ellison), 110, 119, 172, 374, 406

Invisible Man, The (Wells), 68

Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 253, 375

Ireland, William Henry, 107

Iron Gates, The (Millar), 47

Ironweed (Kennedy), 175

Irving, Clifford, 53

Irving, John, 73, 403

Irving, Washington, 149, 373

Isaacson, Walter, 159

Isherwood, Christopher, 9, 23, 132, 148, 170

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 74, 353

Island (Huxley), 151, 367

I Spit on Your Graves (Vian), 196

Italics Are Mine, The (Berberova), 64

Ivanhoe (Scott), 43

Ivins, Molly, 36

Iwasaki, Natsumi, 383

I Will Bear Witness (Klemperer), 341

Izvestia, 304, 312

Izzo, Jean-Claude, 31

 

“J’accuse” (Zola), 18

Jackson, Charles, 129, 299

Jackson, Shirley, 200, 393

Jacobs, Harriet, 78, 203

Jacobs, Jane, 9, 130

Jacob’s Room (Woolf), 248

Jacques, Brian, 188

Jaffe, Rona, 409

Jaggard, Isaac, 353

James, Alice, 11, 113, 201, 393

James, Bill, 316, 329

James, E. L., 159

James, Henry, 10, 11, 67, 79, 90, 113, 120, 170, 260, 262, 282, 329, 360, 361, 368, 378, 385, 393

James, Henry, Sr., 393

James, M. R., 311

James, P. D., 3, 5, 246

James, William, 11, 16, 60, 79, 164, 265, 368, 393

James I, 278, 317

James Joyce (Ellmann), 366

Jameson, Storm, 280

Jane Eyre (Brontë), 117, 216, 331, 334, 344, 384

Janeway, Elizabeth, 260

Jansson, Tove, 200

Jarhead (Swofford), 321

Jarrell, Randall, 139, 145

Jarry, Alfred, 346, 389

Jaspers, Karl, 65

Jaws (Benchley), 173, 193

Jay, John, 208

Jefferson, Thomas, 25, 212, 213, 295, 355, 364

Jelinek, Elfriede, 331

Jenkins, Dan, 19

Jennings, Ken, 183

Jeopardy!, 51, 183

Jerusalem, Karl Wilhelm, 341

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 197, 392

Jew of Malta, The (Marlowe), 144

Jimmy Corrigan (Ware), 300

Johnson, B. S., 44

Johnson, Charles, 109

Johnson, Donna Mae, 187

Johnson, Esther, 33

Johnson, James Weldon, 56, 125, 172, 190

Johnson, Joyce, 281

Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 272, 276

Johnson, Samuel, xv, 25, 116, 135, 212, 295, 392

Johnston, Lynn, 126

Johnstown Flood, The (McCullough), 170

Jonah’s Gourd Vine (Hurston), 314, 327

Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Bach), 368

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Clarke), 191, 282

Jones, David, 40, 326

Jones, Edward P., 202

Jones, Gayl, 368

Jones, Hettie, 324

Jones, James, 351

Jones, LeRoi, 45, 270, 324

Jones, Thom, 31

Jonson, Ben, 278, 299, 353

Jordan, Robert, 293

Joseph Anton (Rushdie), 53

Josephine Mutzenbacher (Salten), 319

Jourdain, Margaret, 317

Journal (Mansfield), 219

Journalist and the Murderer, The (Malcolm), 277, 288

Journals (Goncourts), 158

Journals (Oates), 21

Joy of Sex, The (Comfort), 174

Joyce, James, xiv, 12, 18, 32, 38, 41, 85, 98, 115, 119, 122, 188, 189, 190, 212, 213, 259, 264, 338, 359, 366, 385, 389, 407

Jude the Obscure (Hardy), 370

Judge, 19

“Judgment, The” (Kafka), 299

Judith (Bennett), 110

Judt, Tony, 19, 249

Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 60, 69–70, 71, 85, 288

Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer (Katchor), 50

July 7th (McCorkle), 215

July 20, 2019 (Clarke), 228

Jung, Carl, 127, 179

Junger, Sebastian, 22, 106

Jungle, The (Sinclair), 158

Junky (Burroughs), 9

Just, Ward, 282

Juster, Norton, 175

Just Kids (Smith), 49

 

Kadare, Ismail, 33

Kaddish (Ginsberg), 217

Kael, Pauline, 82, 280, 332

Kafka, Franz, xii, xiv–xv, 44, 56, 93, 107, 118, 176, 211, 253, 256, 299, 305, 324, 338, 410

Kakutani, Michiko, 117

Kane, Gil, 111

Kant, Immanuel, 346

Kappus, Franz, 56

Kapuściński, Ryszard, 28, 394

Karr, Mary, xiv, 21

Katchor, Ben, 50

Kauffmann, Stanley, 44

Kaufman, Charlie, 400

Kaufman, George S., 175

Kaufman, Philip, 229

Kavanagh, Pat, 176

Kaveney, Roz, 235

Kawabata, Yasunari, 187, 349

Kay, Guy Gavriel, 352

Kaye, Lenny, 49

Kazantzakis, Nikos, 337

Kazin, Alfred, 99

Keats, Ezra Jack, 82

Keats, John, 62, 89, 116, 226, 267, 281, 319, 324, 355, 380, 397, 406

Keefauver, Brad, 320

Keeler, Harry Stephen, 27

Keene, Carolyn. See Wirt, Mildred

Keillor, Garrison, 250

Keller, Helen, 174

Kellerman, Jonathan, 252

Kelly, Ned, 49

Kelly, Robert, 97

Kelly, Walt, 329

Kelman, James, 130

Kemble, Fanny, 20

Kempton, Murray, 144

Kennan, George, 55

Kennan, George F., 55

Kennedy, A. L., 23, 333

Kennedy, John F., 169, 304, 363, 367, 380

Kennedy, Robert F., 163

Kennedy, William, 175

Kenner, Hugh, 366, 369

Kent, Rockwell, 84

Kerouac, Jack, xv, 66, 74, 83, 127, 218, 266, 281, 295, 318, 332, 359, 406

Kerouac at Bat (Gewirtz), 218

Kesey, Ken, 294

Ketcham, Hank, 85

Keynes, John Maynard, 126

Khayyam, Omar, 157, 380

Khrushchev, Nikita, 331

Khusraw, Nasir, 76

Kidder, Tracy, 357

Kierkegaard, Søren, 15, 59, 144, 364

Kieron Smith, Boy (Kelman), 130

Killer Angels, The (Shaara), 208, 210

Killer Inside Me, The (Thompson), 110

Killings (Trillin), 390

Kilvert, Francis, 152

Kincaid, Jamaica, 11, 105, 164

Kincaid, James R., 391

Kindred (Butler), 182

King, Albert, 261

King, Frank, 197

King, Martin Luther, 109, 121

King, Stephen, 9, 166, 298, 310

King Kong, 222

Kingsolver, Barbara, 71, 113

King Suckerman (Pelecanos), 206

Kinsey, Alfred, 77, 196

Kipen, David, 215

Kipling, Rudyard, 23, 36, 42, 96

Kirby, Jack, 45

Kirn, Walter, 51

Kirstein, Lincoln, 10

Kissinger, Henry, 369

Kitchen Confidential (Bourdain), 243

Klein, Edward, 239

Klein, Joe, 225

Kleinzahler, August, 389

Kleist, Heinrich von, 76, 93, 329, 366

Klemperer, Victor, xv, 341

Klinkenborg, Verlyn, 314

Kluge, Alexander, 379

Knausgaard, Karl Ove, 66

Knickerbocker, Conrad, 21

Knopf, Blanche, 125, 333

Kober, Arthur, 10

Koch, Kenneth, 190

Koestler, Arthur, 72

Kogawa, Joy, 161

Kohlhase, Hans, 93

Kohn, Howard, 334

Konigsburg, E. L., 49

Kon-Tiki (Heyerdahl), 247

Ko Un, 258

Kovic, Ron, 206-7

Kozinski, Jerzy, 142

Krakauer, Jon, 150

Kramer, Jerry, 398

Kraus, Karl, 185

Krauss, Nicole, 261

Krauss, Ruth, 218

Krazy Kat (Herriman), 234

Krim, Seymour, 273

Krist, Gary, 169

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 267

Kubrick, Stanley, 153, 347

Kundera, Milan, 106, 273

Kurtzman, Harvey, 314

Kutler, Stanley I., 134

Kyd, Thomas, 144

 

La Boétie, Étienne de, 261

Laclos, Choderlos de, 282, 383

Lady Audley’s Secret (Braddon), 260

Lady Chatterly’s Lover (Lawrence), 211

La Fayette, Madame de, 164

Laforgue, Jules, 263

Lagerlöf, Selma, 87

Lagoon and Other Stories (Frame), 405

Lahiri, Jhumpa, 219

Lamantia, Philip, 318

L’Amour, Louis, 93

Lampedusa, Giuseppe di, 152, 234

Lanchester, John, 64

Landers, Ann. See Lederer, Eppie

Land of Plenty, The (Cantwell), 155

Lane, Allen, 238

Lane, Charles, 147

Lane, Rose Wilder, 22

Lang, Andrew, 228

Laodician, A (Hardy), 115

Lardner, Ring, 77, 193

Larkin, Philip, 86, 103, 128, 139, 167, 214, 228, 252, 354

Larsen, Nella, 101, 354

Larson, Gary, 257

Larsson, Stieg, 23, 48, 83, 314, 354, 399

Lasch, Christopher, 174

L’Assommoir (Zola), 118

Last Chronicle of Barset, The (Trollope), 292

Last Day at the Lobster (O’Nan), 399

Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper), 357

Last Orders (Swift), 107

Last Samurai, The (DeWitt), 91

Last September, The (Bowen), 84

Late Innings (Angell), 329

Laurels of Lake Constance, The (Chaix), 283

Laurence, Margaret, 10

“Lausanne: In Old Gibbon’s Garden: 11–12 pm” (Hardy), 200

Lautréamont, Comte de, 220, 334

LaValle, Victor, 353

Lawd Today (Wright), 51

Lawrence, D. H., 58, 73, 109, 176, 211, 282, 288, 404

Lawrence, Frieda, 109

Lawrence, T. E., 158, 238, 318, 381

Lawson, Alexander, 119

Laxness, Halldór, 47

Lay of the Land, The (Ford), 125

Leacock, Stephen, 409

Lear, Edward, 34, 151

Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 212, 246, 335, 355

Leavitt, David, 196

le Carré, John, 330

Led Zeppelin, 42, 236

Lederer, Eppie, 212

Lee, Chang-Rae, 237

Lee, Harper, 133, 218, 366, 404

Lee, Manfred, 108

Lee, Stan, 407

Leeds, Titan, 4

Lefroy, Tom, 13

Left Hand of Darkness, The (LeGuin), 39

Le Guin, Ursula K., 39, 332, 369

Lehane, Dennis, 202, 247

Leibniz, Gottfried, 323, 346

Leiris, Michel, 90, 307

Lem, Stanislaw, 98

L’Engle, Madeleine, 311, 374

Leonard, Elmore, 7, 322, 345, 365

Leonardo da Vinci, 141

Leopard, The (Lampedusa), 152

Leopardi, Giacomo, 202

Leopold, Aldo, 4, 41, 344

Leopold II, 245

Leopold and Loeb, 160

Le Poittevin, Albert, 109

Leroy, JT, 342

Lessing, Doris, 12, 322, 333

Lethem, Jonathan, 58, 272, 349, 357

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” (King), 121

Letterman, David, 230, 410

Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke), 56

Let the Great World Spin (McCann), 250

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee and Evans), 191

Levels of the Game (McPhee), 285

Levertov, Denise, 5, 399

Levi, Primo, 32, 116, 145, 239, 322, 397

Levin, Ira, 198, 357

Levin, Meyer, 188

Levine, Philip, 15

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 341

Levy, Andrea, 167

Lewes, George Henry, 117, 360

Lewis, C. S., 177, 367, 374, 382

Lewis, Janet, 289

Lewis, Matthew, 62

Lewis, Meriwether, 322

Lewis, Michael, 177

Lewis, Sinclair, 15

Leyda, Jay, xv

“Liars in Love” (Yates), 65

Libby, Margaret S., 151

Liberation of Lord Byron Jones, The (Ford), 361

Libra (DeLillo), 304

libraries, xi, 13, 122, 133, 168, 181, 201, 219, 349, 353, 391; New York Public Library, 31, 99, 102; personal, 32, 67, 99, 213, 218. 235, 354

Liddell, Alice, 139, 143, 212

Liddy, G. Gordon, 192, 284

Liebling, A. J., 407

Life, 124, 163

Life Among the Savages (Jackson), 200

Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The (Sterne), 77, 154, 350

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 39, 280

Life, a User’s Manual (Perec), 196

Life of Pi (Martel), 117, 210

Life of the Right Reverend Joseph P. Machebeuf, The (Howlett), 210

Life on the Mississippi (Twain), 75

Life Studies (Lowell), 272

“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” 56, 172

Liggett, Walter W., 388

Light in August (Faulkner), 146, 243

Like a Fiery Elephant (Coe), 44, 215

Likeness, The (French), 105

Lincoln (Vidal), 305

Lincoln, Abraham, 38, 51, 73, 93, 104, 105, 109, 119, 120, 157, 370

Lind, Jenny, 322

Lindgren, Astrid, 359, 399

Lindsay, Vachel, 385

Line of Beauty, The (Hollinghurst), 350

“Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey” (Wordsworth), 221

Linnean Society, 89, 209

Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The (Lewis), 177

Lippman, Laura, 100

Lippmann, Walter, 96

Lish, Gordon, 29, 216, 328

Lispector, Clarice, 301, 340, 388

Liszt, Franz, 317

Littell, Robert, 156

Little Children (Perrotta), 85

Little Dorrit (Darwin), 124

Little Friend, The (Tartt), 348

Little House in the Big Woods (Wilder), 22

Little Man, What Now? (Fallada), 36

Little Nemo in Slumberland (McCay), 184, 279

Little Prince, The (Saint-Exupéry), 409

Little Review, The, 41, 112

Little Things, 266

Little Women (Alcott), 70, 85, 180, 266, 344, 379

Live at the Apollo (Wolk), 335

Liveright, Horace, 284

Lives of the Great Composers, The (Schonberg), 235

Living (Green), 14

Living End, The (Elkin), 76

Lo! (Fort), 31

Lobel, Arnold, 139, 383

Locke, John, 339

Lockridge, Ross, Jr., 77, 206

Locusts Have No King, The (Powell), 10

L’Oeuvre (Zola), 109

Lofting, Hugh, 19

Loitering with Intent (Spark), 203

Lolita (Nabokov), 6, 260, 361, 375

Lombardi, Vince, 398

London (Ackroyd), 381

London, Jack, 23, 117, 367

London Review of Books, 235

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 144

Long Ships, The (Bengtsson), 71

Longstocking, Pippi, 356, 399

Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe), 212

Looking Backward (Bellamy), 169

Looming Tower, The (Wright), 262

Loos, Anita, 93, 261

Lord, Walter, 319

“Lord Chandos Letter” (Hofmannsthal), 265

Lorde, Audre, 362

Lord of the Flies (Golding), 291

Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), 27, 43, 63, 161, 299

Loser, The (Bernhard), 253

Lost, 298

Lost in the City (Jones), 202

Lost Weekend, The (Jackson), 129

“Lottery, The” (Jackson), 200

Louis XVI, 218

Lovecraft, H. P., xiv, 5, 28, 74, 86, 94, 122, 134, 263

“Love Is Not a Pie” (Bloom), 264

Love Machine, The (Susann), 197

Love Medicine (Erdrich), 123

“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The” (Eliot), 29

Lovett, Robert A., 380

Loving (Green), 14

Lowell, Amy, 275–76

Lowell, James Russell, 144

Lowell, Robert, 40, 72, 92, 132, 192, 272, 403

Lowry, Jan, 9, 347

Lowry, Lois, 91

Lowry, Malcolm, 9, 61, 129, 347, 381

Luce, Clare Booth, 81

Lucky Jim (Amis), 139, 176

Ludlum, Robert, 83, 96

Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 109, 210

Lulu in Hollywood (Brooks), 142

Luncheon of the Boating Party (Renoir), 307

Luther, Martin, 57

Lyell, Frank H., 218

Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth and Coleridge), 221

Lytle, Andrew, 391

 

Maas, Peter, 42

Macauley, Robie, 339, 365

Macbeth (Shakespeare), 149

MacDonald, Betty, 46

Macdonald, Dwight, 323, 398

MacDonald, Jeffrey, 288

MacDonald, John D., 232

Macdonald, Ross, 47, 392

Macfarlane, Robert, 305

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 142, 389

MacInnes, Helen, 193

Macintyre, Ben, 306

Mackenzie, Compton, 153

Maclean, Norman, 402

Macmillan’s Magazine, 370

Macpherson, James, 25

Macready, William Charles, 149, 348

Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 118, 167, 234, 280

Madame Claire (Ertz), 238

Mademoiselle, 165, 192

Madison, James, 208

Madison Square Garden, 42, 102

Maggie, a Girl of the Streets (Crane), 293

Magic Christian, The (Southern), 347

Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 68, 354, 407

Magnificent Ambersons, The (Tarkington), 347

Maguire, Gregory, 182, 282

Mahfouz, Naguib, 273, 325

Mailer, Norman, 36, 146, 266, 332, 346, 355, 373

Major Ozone’s Fresh Air (Herriman), 234

Malamud, Bernard, 89, 131, 187

Malcolm, Donald, 7

Malcolm, Janet, 277, 288

Malcolm X, 59, 166, 194

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 286

Malley, Ern, 231

Mallon, Thomas, 119

Malone Dies (Beckett), 190, 217

Malraux, André, 197, 245, 368

Maltese Falcon, The, 115

Manchurian Candidate, The (Condon), 220

Mankiewicz, Frank, 120

Mann, Heinrich, 290

Mann, Thomas, 68, 139, 164, 179, 255, 407

Mansfield, Katherine, 14, 50, 73, 110, 153, 219, 251, 310, 326, 405

Mantel, Hilary, 30, 214

Man Who Fell to Earth, The (Tevis), 252

Man Who Loved Children, The (Stead), 87

Man Who Watched Trains Go By, The (Simenon), 407

Man with Two Brains, The, 56

Maquet, Auguste, 75

Marcel, Gabriel, 245

March (Brooks), 70

March, The (Doctorow), 70

Marcus, Ben, 122

Marcus, Carol, 59

Marcus, Steven, 40

Marcus Aurelius, 88

Marcuse, Herbert, 237

Maréchal, Sylvain, 258

Marías, Javier, 297

Marie Antoinette, 218

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 44

Marjorie Morningstar (Wouk), 146

Markham, Beryl, 337

Markson, David, 177, 235

Marlantes, Karl, 106, 403

Marlette, Doug, 218

Marlowe, Christopher, 144, 169

Marquand, John P., 355

Marquard, Rube, 180

marriage, 9, 47, 128, 189, 191, 293, 331, 373, 394, 401, 409; bigamy, 162; courtship, 178, 283; elopement, 360; engagement, 26, 117, 130, 154, 339, 364; in fiction, 30, 92, 112, 135, 159, 167, 172, 174, 208, 227, 243, 262, 264, 269, 293, 313, 331; first meetings, 31, 64, 72, 159, 189, 304; honeymoons, 161, 167, 321; weddings, 8, 59, 73, 74, 108, 143, 155, 186, 203, 213, 267, 287, 302, 314, 324, 328, 338

Marriage (Wells), 304

Marrow of Tradition, The (Chesnutt), 151

Marsh, Ngaio, 128

Marshal, James, 164

Marshall, Paule, 114

Mars-Jones, Adam, 27

Martel, Yann, 117, 210

Martin, Don, 11

Martin, George R. R., 151, 297

Martin Amis (Bradford), 384

Martin Dressler (Millhauser), 274

Marx, Karl, 85, 144, 297

Masefield, John, 36

Mason, Bobbie Ann, 216

Mason, Charlotte L., 387

Mason & Dixon (Pynchon), 179

Massacre of Paris, The (Marlowe), 144

Master and Commander (O’Brian), 123

Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Beck, Bertholle, and Child), 108, 327

Mather, Increase, 266

Matheson, Richard, 59

Mathews, Harry, 283

Mathews, T. H., 29

Matterhorn (Marlantes), 106

Matthiessen, F. O., 106

Matthiessen, Peter, 333

Maugham, Somerset, 265, 302, 395, 404

Mauldin, Bill, 27

Maupassant, Guy de, 118, 214, 248

Maupin, Armistead, 152

Maurice (Forster), 314, 318

Maurois, André, 238

Maus (Spiegelman), 165, 175, 386

Mauve Decade, The (Beer), 298

Maxwell, William, 24, 27, 152, 239

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 227

Mayes, Herbert R., 45

“May Magnificat, The” (Hopkins), 138

McAuley, James, 231

McBain, Ed, 214, 232

McCaffrey, Anne, 366

McCann, Colum, 250

McCarthy, Cormac, 184, 228, 311

McCarthy, Mary, 30, 40, 172, 293, 336

McCarthy, Tom, 219

McCay, Winsor, 184, 234, 279

McClelland, Jack, 319

McCloskey, Robert, 203

McClure, Michael, 318

McClure’s Magazine, 392

McCorkle, Jill, 215

McCourt, Frank, 227

McCoy, Horace, 119, 296

McCullers, Carson, 177, 243, 287, 306, 373

McCullough, Colleen, 174

McCullough, David, 170, 215

McDermid, Val, 177

McDermott, Alice, 200

McDowell, Arthur Sydney, 322

McElroy, Joseph, 264

McEwan, Ian, 131, 154, 194, 305, 354

McFarlane, Todd, 87

McGahern, John, 385

McGinley, Phyllis, 92

McGinniss, Joe, 288

McGovern, George, 120, 352

McGrath, Patrick, 381

McGuane, Thomas, 390

McInerney, Jay, 255

McKenney, Eileen, 401

McKenney, Ruth, 401

McLean, Bethany, 54

McLuhan, Marshall, 410

McManus, James, 157, 297

McMurtry, Larry, 176, 253

McNamara, Robert, 373, 380

McPhee, John, 79, 285

McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (Mitchell), 118

McTeague (Norris), 58, 174

McWhirter, Norris, 289

McWhirter, Ross, 289

McWilliams, Carey, 200

Mead, Margaret, 17, 274, 360, 387

“Me and Miss Mandible” (Barthelme), 305

Means of Ascent, The (Caro), 272

“Meditation” (Roethke), 125

Meet Me in St. Louis, 56

Melville, Herman, xv, 14, 20, 40, 48, 58, 83, 88, 93, 105, 106, 124, 149, 212, 244, 283, 289, 305, 314, 336, 358, 359, 386, 395

Melville, Malcolm, 289

Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers), 243

Mémoires de Joséphine Baker, 244

Memoirs of Hadrian (Yourcenar), 29, 126

Memoirs of Hecate County (Wilson), 211

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (Freud), 127

Memory Chalet, The (Judt), 19

Menand, Louis, 26

Mencken, H. L., 101, 115, 281, 289, 329

Men of Good Will (Romains), 176

Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 338

Meredith, George, 157, 267

Merkin, Daphne, 23

Merrill, James, 46, 74

Merton, Thomas, 36, 325

Messud, Claire, 170, 173

Metalious, Grace, 271, 285, 301, 311

“Metamorphosis, The” (Kafka), 107, 338

Metcalf, Ben, 122

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 145, 268, 322

Meyer, Ferdinand, 397

Meyer, George, 230

Meyer, Stephenie, 403

Mezzanine, The (Baker), 254

Michael Kohlhaas (Kleist), 93

Michaels, Leonard, 149

Micheaux, Oscar, 96

Michener, James A., 327

Middlemarch (Eliot), 8, 70, 313

Middlesex (Eugenides), 13

Middle Years, The (James), 329

Midnight in Paris, 336

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Berendt), 141

Midnight’s Children (Rushdie), 154, 258

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 60, 172

Miéville, China, 283

Mignon (Cain), 99

Mildred Pierce (Cain), 209

Mill, James, 196, 215

Mill, John Stuart, 159, 215

Millar, Kenneth. See Macdonald, Ross

Millar, Margaret, 47

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 61, 389

Millennium Trilogy (Larsson), 23, 48, 83

Miller, Arthur, 328

Miller, Frank, 32

Miller, Henry, 72, 147, 162, 403, 405, 408

Miller, Laura, 87

Miller, Merle, 22

Millet, Kate, 291

Millhauser, Steven, 246, 274

Milliner’s Hat Mystery, The (Thomson), 306

Million Little Pieces, A (Frey), 335

Mills, C. Wright, 91

Milne, A. A., 10, 23, 36, 211, 264, 396

Milne, Christopher Robin, 115, 125, 264

Miłosz, Czesław, 203

Milton, John, 353, 388

Mimesis (Auerbach), 327

Minarik, Else Holmelund, 290

Mind of the Raven, The (Heinrich), 315

Minor Characters (Johnson), 281

Miracle in the Andes (Parrado), 393

Mirecourt, Eugène de, 75

Misérables, Les (Hugo), 270

Mishima, Yukio, 349, 370

Mississippi River, 105, 120

Miss Lonelyhearts (West), 118, 401

Mitchell, David, 17, 67, 76, 222

Mitchell, John, 291

Mitchell, Joseph, 118, 163

Mitchell, Margaret, 72, 209, 259, 260, 293, 353

Mitford, Jessica, 230

Mitford, Nancy, 203

Mitterand, François, 97

Moby-Dick (Melville), 20, 58, 336, 343, 359, 395

Mockingbird (Tevis), 252

Moes, Władysław, 165

Molière, 20

Molloy (Beckett), 190, 217

Momaday, N. Scott, 66, 169, 236

Moncrieff, C. K. Scott, 67

Moneyball (Lewis), 177

Monk, The (Lewis), 62

Monroe, Harriet, 82, 261, 303

Montaigne, Michel de, 67, 131, 261, 289, 290, 339

Monteith, Charles, 291

Montgomery, L. M., 71, 129, 213, 309, 374

Monthly Magazine, 358

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (Adams), 352

Moo (Smiley), 287

Moody, Rick, 345, 368

Moorcock, Michael, 397

Moore, Alan, 363

Moore, Brian, 148, 268, 311

Moore, George, 170

Moore, Lorrie, 18, 297

Moore, Marianne, 44, 102, 373, 387

Moore, Tom, 81, 156

Moortown Diary (Hughes), 39, 56

Moravia, Albert, 303

Morley, John, 247

Morris, Mowbray, 370

Morris, William, 314

Morrison, Toni, 17, 33, 38, 57, 294, 350

Morte d’Arthur, Le (Malory), 238

Mortimer, Edward, 21

Mosley, Walter, 198

mothers, 14, 22, 60, 72, 130, 138, 145, 148, 245, 337, 386, 394; childbirth, 160, 287, 387; death of, 11, 24, 77, 97, 115, 138, 195, 294, 337, 373; in fiction, 9, 77, 91, 113, 138, 152, 161, 198, 209, 255, 264, 266, 294, 406; writers as, 160, 287, 313, 387

Mourning Diary (Barthes), 97, 337

Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway), 364

Moviegoer, The (Percy), 44, 70, 71

Mowat, Farley, 162, 220

Mo Yan, 56

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 211

Mr. Pim Passes By (Milne), 10

Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), xiv, 259, 273, 367

Ms., 90, 258

Ms. Hempel Chronicles (Bynum), 277

Muir, Edwin, 389

Muir, Frank, 7

Muir, John, 126, 145

Multitude of Sins, A (Ford), 73

Mumford, Lewis, 9

Munro, Alice, 218, 225, 274, 296

Munro, H. H. See Saki

Murakami, Haruki, 17, 106, 196

Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki), 25

“Murders in the Rue Morgue, The” (Poe), 236

Murdoch, Iris, 11, 15, 47, 399

Murray, Albert, 124, 151, 286

Murray, John, 156

Murry, John Middleton, 73, 301

Museum of Innocence, The (Pamuk), xiv, 132

Music for Torching (Homes), 169

Music of Chance, The (Auster), 271

Musil, Robert, 120

Mutis, Álvaro, 86

My Dark Places (Ellroy), 195

Myers, Walter Dean, 255

My Father and Myself (Ackerley), 332

My Friend Leonard (Frey), 335

My Garden (Book): (Kincaid), 105

My Lai massacre, 169, 357

Myrdal, Gunnar, 156

My Sister Eileen (McKenney), 401

Mysterious Affair at Styles, The (Christie), 225, 238

“Mystery of Marie Roget, The” (Poe), 236

My Struggle (Knausgaard), 66

My Word!, 7

 

Nabokov, Vera, 52, 182

Nabokov, Vladimir, xiv, 6, 42, 53, 98, 127, 182, 210, 213, 260, 303, 361, 375

Nádas, Peter, 325

Naipaul, V. S., 244, 260, 306

Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer), 146

Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 40

Nałkowska, Zofia, 121

Napoleon, 25, 67, 135, 160, 191, 255, 278, 381

Narayan, R. K., 152

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 280

Nash, Ogden, 262

Nash’s Magazine, 121

Nast, Condé, 296

Nathan, George Jean, 113

National Geographic, 299

Native Son (Wright), 322, 356

Natural, The (Malamud), 187

Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn, The (White), 391

“Nature” (Emerson), 145

Naylor, Gloria, 30

Necessity of Atheism, The (Shelley), 96

Nemerov, Howard, 213

Némirovsky, Irène, 63, 102, 173, 194, 219

Neruda, Pablo, 201, 220

Nesbit, Evelyn, 374

Netherland (O’Neill), 246

Never Cry Wolf (Mowat), 162

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, 118

Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro), 74

Newby, Eric, 385

Newby, P. H., 225

New Centurions, The (Wambaugh), 80

New Grub Street (Gissing), 345, 367, 384

Newjack (Conover), 410

Newman, John Henry, 254

New Republic, The, 44, 147, 254

New Statesman and Nation, 350

Newsweek, 130, 225

Newton, Isaac, 91, 160, 263, 323

“New Year Letter” (Auden), 5

New York (magazine), 116

New Yorker, The, 9, 11, 18, 27, 31, 40, 47, 65, 107, 116, 118, 142, 160, 197, 200, 208, 230, 249, 262, 263, 268, 284, 293, 302, 323, 329, 332, 362, 388, 390

New York Giants (baseball), 133, 180, 195, 314

New York Giants (football), 19, 356

New York Review of Books, 19, 40, 63, 254

New York Times bestseller list, 169, 197, 230, 236, 263, 271, 284, 396

New York Times Magazine, 22, 195

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, 10

Nicholas I, 401

Nicholls, David, 223

Nicholls, Rev. Arthur, 154, 331

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 8, 151, 184, 268, 326, 407

Niffenegger, Audrey, 201

“Nightingale, The” (Andersen), 322

Night of January 16th (Rand), 21

Night Rider (Warren), 170

Nightwood (Barnes), 235, 283, 287

Nin, Anaïs, 19, 72, 162, 233, 287, 313

1984 (Orwell), 141, 181, 198

1920 Diary (Babel), 222

Nixon, Richard M., 21, 134, 173, 250, 336

No Big Deal (Fidrych and Clark), 386

Noble, James Ashcroft, 28

Nordstrom, Ursula, 133, 161, 232

Norris, Frank, 58, 76, 174

Northanger Abbey (Austen), 113

North Pole, 114

Norton, Andre, 88

Notes (Coppola), 326

Notes from the Century Before (Hoagland), 235

“Notes of a Native Son” (Baldwin), 237

Notes of a Son and Brother (James), 79

Nouvelle revue française, 16

 

Oates, Joyce Carol, 21, 82, 189

“Oath” (Smith), 49

Obama, Barack, 247

Obasan (Kogawa), 161

O’Brian, Patrick, 7, 123, 228

O’Brien, Edna, 394

O’Brien, Fitz-James, 40

O’Brien, Flann, 78, 89, 106, 237, 298

O’Brien, Tim, 312

Obsession, The (Levin), 188

“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An” (Bierce), 221

O’Connor, Flannery, xv, 57, 96, 118, 183, 339, 403

Odets, Clifford, 257

Ōe, Kenzaburō, 186

O’Faolain, Nuala, 148

“Of Friendship” (Montaigne), 261

O’Hagan, Andrew, 392

O’Hara, Frank, 190, 233, 270

O’Hara, John, 116, 405

Okrent, Daniel, 329

Old Farmer’s Almanac, The, 17

Old Jules (Sandoz), 188

Olds, Sharon, 364

Oliver, Mary, 287

Olsen, Regine, 364

Olsen, Tillie, 6

Olson, Charles, 406

Omnivore’s Dilemma, The (Pollan), 5, 84

O’Nan, Stewart, 399

On Beauty (Smith), 365

Once in a Lifetime (Hart and Kaufman), 301

Once Upon a Distant War (Prochnau), 203

On Chesil Beach (McEwan), 131

Ondaatje, Michael, 257, 288, 289

On Drink (Amis), 176

One Day (Nicholls), 223

One Day a Year (Wolf), 304

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn), 331

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey), 406

One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez), 330

O’Neill, Eugene, 59, 327

O’Neill, Jamie, 88

O’Neill, Joseph, 246

O’Neill, Oona, 59

1,000,000 Years B.C., 134

On Human Bondage (Maugham), 404

Onion Field, The (Wambaugh), 80

“On Keeping a Notebook” (Didion), 409

On Native Grounds (Kazin), 99

O’Nolan, Brian. See O’Brien, Flann

“On the Death of Mrs. Johnson” (Swift), 33

On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 16, 99, 186, 328, 368, 369

On the Road (Kerouac), 127, 218, 266, 281, 406

“On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year” (Byron), 27

“On Voluntary Slavery” (La Boétie), 261

Open (Agassi), 164

Open City (Cole), 297

Open Society and Its Enemies, The (Popper), 336

Operation Mincemeat (Macintyre), 306

Orchid Thief, The (Orlean), 379, 400

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska, 300

Order of Things, The (Les mots et les choses) (Foucault), 168

Ordinary Seaman, The (Goldman), 197

Oregon Trail, The (Parkman), 168

orgone box, 42, 222, 266

Original Bliss (Kennedy), 23

Orlando (Woolf), 316, 322

Orlean, Susan, 208, 379, 400

Orton, Joe, 133, 252

Orwell, George, 26, 42, 55, 119, 141, 181, 198, 238, 253, 285, 295, 321, 398, 403

Osborne, John, 403

Oscar Wilde (Harris), 301

Ossian, 25

Othello (Shakespeare), 346

Our Mutual Friend (Dickens), 182

Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (Roosevelt), 355

Outlaw, Wyatt, 65

Out of Africa (Dinesen), 148

Out of Sheer Rage (Dyer), 282

Out of Sight (Leonard), 7

Outsiders, The (Hinton), 270

Ovid, 91

Owen, Harold, 54

Owen, Wilfred, 349

Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, The (Muir), 7

Oxford-Duden Japanese Pictorial Dictionary, 91

Oxford English Dictionary, 304

Oz, Amos, 11, 143

Ozick, Cynthia, 122

 

Packer, Z. Z., 327

“Pafko at the Wall” (DeLillo), 314

Page, Jimmy, 42

Paine, Thomas, 15, 184, 287

Palahniuk, Chuck, 60

Pale King, The (Wallace), 95, 104, 105

Paley, Grace, 265, 390

Pallandt, Nina van, 53

Palliser, Charles, 391

Pamuk, Orhan, xiv, 132, 180

Pancake, Breece D’J, 113

Paolini, Christopher, 362

Paretsky, Sara, 181

Parini, Jay, 332

Paris Review, 300, 386

Paris Stories (Gallant), 208

Parker, Dorothy, 10, 180

Parker, Hershel, xv

Parker, Robert B., 294

Parkman, Francis, 168

Parliament of Fowls (Chaucer), 38

Parrado, Nando, 393

Parrot and Olivier in America (Carey), 150

Party Going (Green), 14

Pascal, Blaise, 262

Passage to India, A (Forster), 33

Pasternak, Boris, 169

Pastors and Masters (Compton-Burnett), 193, 317

Patchett, Ann, 333, 381

Paterson (Williams), 66, 192

Paton, Alan, 117

Pattern Recognition (Gibson), 180

Patterson, James, 93

Paulsen, Gary, 156

Pavannes and Divisions (Pound), 260

Paz, Octavio, 102

Peabody, Elizabeth, 250

Peace, David, 229

Peake, Mervyn, 144, 362

Peanuts (Schulz), 114, 121, 187, 313, 393, 400

Peary, Robert, 114

Peau de chagrin, La (Balzac), 298

Peden, William, 116

Pekar, Harvey, 220, 410

Pelecanos, George, 57, 109, 206

Penrose, Roger, 251

People, 75, 263

People of the Deer (Mowat), 162

Pepys, Samuel, xv, 62, 82, 116, 209, 285

Percy, Walker, 44, 70, 71, 149, 386

Perec, Georges, 74, 196

Père Goriot (Balzac), 336

Perelman, S. J., 328

“Perfect Day for Bananafish, A” (Salinger), 27

Periodic Table, The (Levi), 397

Perkins, Maxwell, 82, 115, 190, 212, 217, 254, 364

Perlman, Elliot, 263

Perrotta, Tom, 85, 126, 256

Personal Matter, A (Ōe), 186

Personal Memoirs (Grant), 111

“Personal Poem” (O’Hara), 270

“Personism: A Manifesto” (O’Hara), 270

Persuasion (Austen), 39

Pessl, Marisha, 294

Pessoa, Fernando, 79, 186, 300, 363

Peterson, Roger Tory, 132, 236

Petit, Philippe, 250

Petrarch, 131, 227, 389

Petry, Ann, 133

Peyton Place (Metalious), 163, 271, 301, 311, 313

Phelps, Robert, 17, 272, 352

Phillips, Arthur, 183

Phillips, Caryl, 84

Phillips, Jayne Anne, 227

Phillips, Julia, 6

Phillips, Moses, 144

Phillips, Pauline, 212

Physiology of Taste, The (Brillat-Savarin), 220

Picasso, Pablo, 90, 286

Pickup, The (Sullivan), 395

Picture (Ross), 268

Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 57, 335

Pictures from an Institution (Jarrell), 139

Pierre (Melville), 40

“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” (Borges), 307

Pilcher, Rosamunde, 299

Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), 379

Pilot, The (Cooper), 357

Pinck, Dan, 74

Pinker, Steven, 295

Pinkwater, Daniel, 360

Pinter, Harold, 403

Pioneers, The (Cooper), 357

Pirandello, Luigi, 389

Pirenne, Henri, 94

Pirsig, Robert M., 283

Pisan Cantos (Pound), 163

Plague, The (Camus), 146, 245

Plain, Belva, 323

Plainsong (Haruf), 314

Plath, Sylvia, 50, 64, 103, 165, 192, 338

Plato, 213

Playboy, 147, 166

Player Piano (Vonnegut), 63

Plimpton, George, 14, 89

Plot Against America, The (Roth), 67

Pnin (Nabokov), 42

Poe, Edgar Allan, 24, 26, 56, 77, 91, 140, 155, 165, 212, 236, 247, 259, 318, 320, 364

“Poem on the Lisbon Disaster” (Voltaire), 346

Poems and Ballads (Swinburne), 247

Poems by Two Brothers (Tennyson and Tennyson), 125

Poet in New York, A (García Lorca), 279

Poetry, 35, 82, 261

Poetry Review, 374

Poet’s Pub (Linklater), 238

Poirier, Richard, 258

Political Justice (Godwin), 164

Pollan, Michael, 5, 45, 84

Polo, Marco, 14

Poniatowska, Elena, 158

Poor No More (Ruark), 7

Poor Richard’s Almanack (Franklin), 4

Pope, Alexander, 83, 160, 187

Popeye, 22

Popper, Karl, 336

Popp Upon Pope, A, 187

Portable Faulkner, The, 134, 144, 252

Porter, Katherine Anne, 154

Porter, William Sydney. See Henry, O.

Portinari, Beatrice, 181

Portis, Charles, 311

Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth), 72, 197

Portrait of a Lady, The (James), 79, 170, 385

Positively Fifth Street (McManus), 157

Possessed, The (Batuman), 222

Possession (Byatt), 194, 332

Postman, Neil, 316

Postman Always Rings Twice, The (Cain), 176

Postmortem (Cornwell), 180

Postwar (Judt), 19

Potok, Chaim, 231

Potter, Beatrix, 31, 89, 236, 282, 395

Pound, Ezra, 29, 35, 163, 170, 260, 261, 346, 352

Powell, Anthony, 99, 214

Powell, Dawn, 10, 359

Powell, John Wesley, 273

Powell, Padgett, 130

Powers, Richard, 191

Powers, Tim, 68

Pragmatism (James), 265

Prairie, The (Cooper), 357

Prayer for Owen Meany, A (Irving), 403

Prescott, Oliver, 146, 247, 261

Prévost, Abbé, 402

Price, Reynolds, 25

Price, Richard, 173, 323

Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 245, 371, 384, 403

Priestley, J. B., 178

Primary Colors (Klein), 225

Prince, The (Machiavelli), 389

Principia Mathematica (Newton), 160

prison and jail, 76, 133, 150, 154, 163, 179, 219, 224, 278, 331, 352, 391, 398, 410; debtor’s, 59, 249, 340; escapes, 7, 9, 67; protest, 94, 121, 200, 258, 408; released, 106, 232, 284, 330, 335

Pritchett, V. S., 55

prizes, 77, 102, 188; Academy Award, 333; (Man) Booker Prize, 15, 30, 49, 157, 194, 210, 350; Guggenheim Fellowship, 99, 398; Hubert Church Memorial Award, 405; Hugo Award, 6, 54; National Book Award, 44, 49, 175, 230, 364; Newbery Medal, 132; Nobel Prize, 15, 51, 132, 140, 148, 186, 190, 252, 322, 325, 349; Observer short-story prize, 400, 402; Pulitzer Prize, 65, 70, 117, 157, 186, 203, 208, 262, 274, 287, 364, 386, 393; Tournament of Books, 67

Prochnau, William, 203

Professor, The (Bronté), 212

Prokosch, Frederic, 175

Proulx, Annie, 197, 265, 371

Proust, Marcel, 16, 60, 80, 118, 145, 168, 218, 257, 307, 363

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Bangs), 110

Public Burning, The (Coover), 21, 173

Puig, Manuel, 230

Pulitzer, Joseph, 340

Pullman, Philip, 96

Pulphead (Sullivan), 295

Punch, 334

Purdy, James, 84

Pushkin, Alexander, 32, 380

Put Out More Flags (Waugh), 23

Puzo, Mario, 269

Pye, Michael, 88

Pyle, Ernie, 123, 396

Pylon (Faulkner), 101

Pym, Barbara, 16, 91, 128, 242, 243, 391

Pynchon, Thomas, 80, 147, 179, 242, 267

Queenan, Joe, 239

Queen Mab (Shelley), 158

Queen’s Gambit, The (Tevis), 252

Queneau, Raymond, 90, 225

Quest for Corvo, The (Symons), 337

Quicksand (Larsen), 354

Quiet American, The (Greene), 393

Quindlen, Anna, 216

Quinn, Anthony (writer), 364

Quinn, Paul, 179

 

Rabbit Is Rich (Updike), 196

Rabbit Redux (Updike), 196, 224, 395

Rabbit, Run (Updike), 71, 224, 395

Rabelais, François, 114

Rachel Papers, The (Amis), 384

Racine, Jean, 220

Rackham, Arthur, 283

Rafferty, Terrence, 199

Rafinesque, Constantine, 295

Ragtime (Doctorow), 28, 93, 114

Rahv, Philip, 40

Raintree County (Lockridge), 77, 206

Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry), 47

Rakoff, David, 149, 372

Ralph 124C41+ (Gernsback), 259

Rand, Ayn, 21, 77, 153, 360

Rand McNally Auto Chum, 120

Rape of the Lock, The (Pope), 83

Raskin, Ellen, 251

Ratcliffe, Michael, 318

Rather, Dan, 315

Raven and Other Poems, The (Poe), 91, 364

Ravens in Winter (Heinrich), 39

Raw, 165

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 393

Raymond, Alex, 34

Read, Piers Paul, 393

Réage, Pauline, 300

Real Tadzio, The (Adair), 165

Re-awakening, The (Levi), 32

Reborn (Sontag), 139

Rechy, John, 58

Record of a School (Peabody), 250

Red Alert (George), 347

Red and the Black, The (Stendhal), 135

Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane), 70, 268, 332

Red Cavalry (Babel), 222

Red Harvest (Hammett), 40

“Red-Headed League, The” (Doyle), 320

Red Rackham’s Treasure (Hergé), 223

Red Rover, The (Cooper), 357

Reed, Ishmael, 61, 73

Reed, John, 96, 311

Reed, Rex, 251

Reich, Wilhelm, 42, 222, 266, 348

Reine Margot, La (Dumas), 135

Religio Medici (Browne), 212

Remainder (McCarthy), 219

Remarque, Erich Maria, 302

Rembrandt van Rijn, 21

“Renascence” (Millay), 389

Renault, Mary, 281

Rendell, Ruth, 56

“Report on the Barnhouse Effect” (Vonnegut), 338

Republic (Plato), 213

Requiem for a Nun (Faulkner), 336

Return of Martin Guerre, The (Davis), 289

Return of the King, The (Tolkien), 27

Return of the Native, The (Hardy), 350

Revolt in the Desert (Lawrence), 158

Revolution, American, 15, 208

Revolution, French, 6, 205, 218, 348

Revolution, Russian, 64, 311

Revolver, 281

Rexroth, Kenneth, 179

Rey, H. A., 229, 293

Rey, Margret, 229

Rhys, Jean, 88, 153, 331, 350

Rice, Anne, 315

Rich, Adrienne, 40, 155

Richard III (Shakespeare), 84, 214

Richardson, Dorothy, 156

Richardson, Maurice Lane, 360

Richardson, Samuel, 212

Richler, Mordecai, 211, 319

Richter, Conrad, 324

Richter, Gerhard, 379

Ricketts, Ed, 147

Ricks, Christopher, 395

Riddle of the Sands, The (Childers), 290, 369

Riders in the Chariot (White), 388

Rieff, Philip, 8

Right Stuff, The, 229

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 56, 151, 383, 408

Rimbaud, Arthur, 152, 166, 218, 331, 352, 355

“Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The” (Coleridge), 316, 358

Rings of Saturn, The (Sebald), 21, 212, 241–42, 243

Ripley, Robert, 166

Ritter, Lawrence, 180

Road, The (McCarthy), 311

Road to Wigan Pier, The (Orwell), 42

Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 261

Robbins, Harold, 325

Robbins, Tom, 230

Roberts, Nora, 321

Robinson, Marilynne, 117, 181, 371

Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 120, 155, 184

Rochester, Earl of, 397

Rock Crystal (Stifter), 404

Rockefeller, John D., 66

Roethke, Theodore, 125, 132, 244

Rogers, Mary, 236

Rogers, Will, 349

Roget, Peter Mark, 289

Rolfe, Frederick. See Corvo, Baron

Rolling Stone, 110, 120, 177, 334, 346, 354

Rolling Stones, 195, 350

Romains, Jules, 176

Rombauer, Irma, 341

Romola (Eliot), 155

Room Temperature (Baker), 254

Roosevelt, Theodore, 74, 164, 355, 369

Roots (Haley), 306, 328

Rosemary’s Baby (Levin), 198

Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 173, 192, 200, 222

Ross, Harold, 47, 385

Ross, Lillian, 160, 268

Rossetti, Christina, 408

Rosy Posy—Mama’s Girl (Herriman), 234

Roth, Henry, 324

Roth, Joseph, 279

Roth, Philip, 67, 72, 90, 179, 195, 197, 284, 379

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 201

Rowling, J. K., 178, 199, 201, 235, 239, 296, 342

Roy, Arundhati, 369

Roy, Gabrielle, 221

Royko, Mike, 134, 143

Ruark, Robert, 7

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The (FitzGerald), 380

Ruby, Jack, 304

Rule, Ann, 313

Rumi, 307

Runaway Bunny, The (Brown), 358

Running in the Family (Ondaatje), 257

Runyon, Damon, 389

Rush, Norman, 335

Rushdie, Salman, 53, 154, 192, 258, 324, 325

Ruskin, John, 25, 356

Russ, Joanna, 134, 267

Russell, Bertrand, 289

Russo, Richard, 223

Ryder (Barnes), 287

 

Sacco, Joe, 183

Sacks, Oliver, 139, 217, 233

Sackville-West, Vita, 80, 249, 316

Sacred and Profane Love Machine, The (Murdoch), 11

Safarnama (Khusraw), 76

Safe Area Gorazde (Sacco), 183

Safire, William, 304

Sagan, Carl, 354

Sagan, Françoise, 301

Sage, Lorna, 288

Said, Edward, 297

Sailing Alone Around the World (Slocum), 129

Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 145, 158

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 202, 262, 409

Saint Genet (Sartre), 224

Saki, 359

Salih, Tayeb, 57, 259

Salinger, J. D., 6, 27, 32, 40, 54, 59, 116, 224, 226, 286, 321, 379

Salten, Felix, 319

Salter, James, 183, 352

Samuels, Charles Joseph, 185

Sand, George, 133, 181

Sandburg, Carl, 109, 140, 157

Sand County Almanac, A (Leopold), 4, 41, 344

Sanders, Ed, 251

Sandoz, Mari, 150, 188

Sanford, John, 76

“SantaLand Diaries” (Sedaris), 378

Sarah (Leroy), 342

Saramago, José, 191

Saro-Wiwa, Ken, 355

Saroyan, William, 59, 179, 274

Sarton, May, 114, 165, 224

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 90, 194, 224, 252

Sassoon, Siegfried, 278

Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), 53, 325

Satrapi, Marjane, 367

Saturday Evening Post, 115, 131, 286

Saturday Night (Orlean), 208

Saturday Review of Literature, 316

Saunders, George, 381, 389

Savage, Dan, 318

Savage, Richard, 244

Savage Detectives, The (Bolaño), 363

Savile, Sir Henry, 52

Sayers, Dorothy L., 82, 133, 164, 382, 396

“Scandal in Bohemia, A” (Doyle), 92

Scandella, Domenico, 46

Scanlan’s Monthly, 141

Scarry, Richard, 135

Schama, Simon, 52

Scharnhorst, Gary, 45

Schiller, Lawrence, 346

Schott, Ben, 165

Schreber, Daniel Paul, 127

Schreber Case, The (Freud), 127

Schreiner, Olive, 390

Schubert, Franz, 357

Schulberg, Budd, 248

Schulz, Bruno, 114, 121

Schulz, Charles M., xii, 51, 114, 126, 187, 313, 371, 393, 400

Schumacher, E. F., 281

Schuyler, James, 117

Schwartz, Delmore, 219, 333

Schwartz-Bart, André, 307

Schwartzwelder, John, 230

Scieszka, Jon, 285

Scott, A. O., 348

Scott, Paul, 72

Scott, Walter, 43, 258

Screw, 174

Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 187, 230

Seabiscuit (Hillenbrand), 82

Sea of Cortez (Steinbeck and Ricketts), 147

Season of Migration to the North (Salih), 259

Sea, the Sea, The (Murdoch), 15

Sebald, W. G., 21, 101, 157, 184, 212, 241–42, 243, 393, 409

Second Sex, The (Beauvoir), 98

Secret Agent X-9 (Hammett), 34

Secret History, The (Tartt), 334

Secret of the Old Clock, The (Keene), 303

Secret of the Unicorn, The (Hergé), 223

Sedaris, Amy, 100

Sedaris, David, 378, 405

Seduction of the Innocent (Wertham), 100

Segal, Erich, 189

Segar, E. C., 22

Selassie, Haile, 394

Selby, Hubert, Jr., 131

Selby, John, 57

Seligman, Craig, 229

Sellers, Peter, 347

Selznick, Brian, 222

Semi-Tough (Jenkins), 19

Semple, Maria, 392

Sendak, Maurice, 129, 147, 183

Sense and Sensibility (Austen), 130

“September, 1819” (Wordsworth), 275-6

September 11, 2001, 250, 276, 288, 297, 324

“September 1, 1939” (Auden), 276

“September, 1918” (Lowell), 275–76

“Seraph and the Zambesi, The” (Spark), 402

Serling, Rod, 404

Serpico (Maas), 42

Serpico, Frank, 42

Service, Robert W., 288

Seth, Vikram, 193

Seton, Ernest Thompson, 257

Seuss, Dr., 19, 73, 151, 163, 213, 301

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence), 158, 318, 381

Seven Samurai, The, 91

Seven Storey Mountain, The (Merton), 325

Seven Types of Ambiguity (Perlman), 263

Sewell, Anna, 101

Sex and the Single Girl (Brown), 90, 302

Sexton, Anne, 315

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Kinsey), 77

Shaara, Michael, 144, 208, 210

Shackleton, Ernest, 408

Shadid, Anthony, 55, 88

Shadow of Blooming Grove, The (Russell), 213

Shakespeare (Bloom), 83

Shakespeare, William, 36, 60, 69–70, 71, 84, 85, 103, 107, 128, 137, 149, 151, 152, 172, 181, 183, 189, 214, 217, 275, 288, 299, 346, 353, 373, 398, 406

Shand, Alexander Innes, 355

Shange, Ntozake, 329

Sharpe, Tom, 101

Shaw, Artie, 328

Shaw, George Bernard, 68, 83, 147, 158, 234, 268, 289, 318, 347

Shaw, Irwin, 155

Shawn, William, 18, 116, 160, 387

Sheed, Wilfrid, 24, 98

Sheehan, Neil, 203

Sheldon, Alice. See Tiptree, James, Jr.

Sheldon, Sidney, 35

Shelley, Mary, 40, 82, 189, 267, 273, 287, 313, 316, 345

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 96, 158, 189, 216, 267, 313, 316, 366

Shepard, E. H., 95, 264

Shepard, Sam, 350

Shepheardes Calender, The (Spenser), 4

Shepherd, Jean, 244, 327, 378

Shilts, Randy, 56

Shining, The (King), 310

Shipping News, The (Proulx), 371

shipwrecks, 155, 222, 227, 254, 293, 351

Shot in the Heart (Gilmore), 346

Shriver, Lionel, 113

Shteyngart, Gary, 188, 213

Shulevitz, Judith, 285

Shuster, Joe, 238

Siberia and the Exile System (Kennan), 55

siblings: brothers, 16, 48, 56, 79, 125, 140, 214, 226, 282, 346, 368; brothers and sisters, 11, 30, 117, 178, 184, 197, 314, 404; sisters, 85, 100, 143, 157, 172, 173, 212, 216, 266, 371, 401

Siegel, Jerry, 33

Siege of Krishnapur, The (Farrell), 298

Silko, Leslie Marmon, 76

Silvers, Robert, 40

Silverstein, Shel, 302

Simenon, Georges, 52, 281, 407

Simic, Charles, 148

Simpsons, The, 230, 324

Sinatra, Frank, 143, 314, 354, 373

Sinclair, Upton, 158, 370

Singer, Burns, 295, 306

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 140, 232

Singer, Israel Joshua, 140

Singer, Peter, 214

Sister Carrie (Dreiser), 20, 215

sisters. See siblings

Sittenfeld, Curtis, 266

Sitwell, Edith, 321

Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Pony Cart, The (Sweetstory), 114

Six Bunny-Wunnies Go to Long Beach, The (Sweetstory), 114

Sixty Stories (Barthelme), 315

Skull of the Waltzing Clown, The (Keeler), 27

Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), 52

Sleepless Nights (Hardwick), 173

Slim, Iceberg, 133, 330

Slocum, Joshua, 129

Slouching Toward Bethlehem (Didion), 115

Small Island (Levy), 167

Smart, Elizabeth, 75

Smartest Guys in the Room, The (McLean and Elkind), 54

Smiley, Jane, 105, 287, 303

Smith, Adam, 80, 219, 225, 353

Smith, Betty, 22, 261

Smith, Dodie, 142

Smith, Jerome, 163

Smith, Joseph, 97

Smith, Martin Cruz, 348

Smith, Patti, 49

Smith, Perry, 119

Smith, Red, 20

Smith, Zadie, xiv, 3, 5, 257, 324, 336, 365

Smollett, Tobias, 294

Smythe, Reg, 186

Snicket, Lemony, 67

Snow Ball, The (Brophy), 301

Snow Leopard, The (Matthiessen), 333

Snyder, Gary, 318

Soares, Lota de Macedo, 340, 375

Sobol, Donald J., 219

So Long, See You Tomorrow (Maxwell), 24

Solotaroff, Ted, 251

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 40, 52, 181, 246, 331

Song Is You, The (Phillips), 183

Song of Solomon (Morrison), 38, 57, 294

Songs of Innocence and Experience (Blake), 404

Songs of Maldoror, The (Lautréamont), 334

Son of the Morning Star (Connell), 260

Sons and Lovers (Lawrence), 109, 176

Sontag, Susan, 8, 21, 40, 115, 139, 287, 407

Sophie’s Choice (Styron), 186

Sorrentino, Gilbert, 157

Sorrentino, Paul, 298

Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), 341

Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner), 113, 146

South (Shackleton), 408

Southern, Terry, 140, 300, 347

South Pole, 5

Soyinka, Wole, 221

Spark, Muriel, 31, 118, 133, 203, 374, 402

Spartacus (Fast), 200

Specialty Topics in Calamity Physics (Pessl), 294

Specimen Days (Cunningham), 199

Spencer, Scott, 255

Spender, Stephen, 224, 338

Spengler, Oswald, 168

Spenser, Edmund, 4, 18, 281

Sphere (Ammons), 77

Spiegelman, Art, 54, 165, 175, 386

Spillane, Mickey, 80

Spinoza, Baruch, 60, 235, 325

Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The (Fadiman), 74

Spock, Benjamin, 387

Spook Country (Gibson), 180

Sport and a Pastime, A (Salter), 352

sports: auto racing, 175; baseball, 106, 133, 175, 177, 180, 187, 195, 206, 218, 226, 269, 329, 383, 386; basketball, 39, 46, 192, 206, 261; bicycling, 93, 143, 289; cricket, 89, 245, 246, 268; croquet, 244; football, 19, 218, 253, 275, 356, 370, 398; hockey, 32; horse racing, 95, 133, 141; mountaineering, 131, 150, 154; Ping-Pong, 381; rugby, 199; soccer, 53, 229, 291; swimming, 142, 252, 298; tennis, 164, 285; ultramarathon, 196, 315

Sports Illustrated, 329

Sportswriter, The (Ford), 94, 104, 105, 125

Spurling, John, 298

Spy, The (Cooper), 357

Squires, Jim, 82

Stafford, Jean, 209

Stalin, Josef, 154, 312, 331

Stalingrad (Beevor), 379

Stamboul Train (Greene), 178

Stand, The (King), 9

Star Is Born, A, 301

Stark, Richard. See Westlake, Donald E.

Stars and Stripes, The, 47

Starship Troopers (Heinlein), 239

State by State (Weiland and Wilsey), 295

Statement, The (Moore), 148

Stead, Christina, 87, 225

Stead, Rebecca, 132

Steadman, Ralph, 141

Steegmuller, Francis, 31, 331

Steel, Danielle, 257

Steele, Richard, 278

Steffens, Lincoln, 111

Stegner, Wallace, 102, 118

Steig, William, 266, 359

Stein, Gertrude, 42, 87, 164, 235, 286, 326, 364

Steinbeck, John, 66, 142, 147, 278, 360

Steinberg, Saul, 188

Steiner, George, 23

Stendhal, 28, 94, 97, 135, 160, 278, 360

Stephen, Leslie, 373

Stephenson, Neal, 323, 342

Sterling, George, 281

Stern, 130

Stern, Richard G., 29, 333

Sterne, Laurence, 77, 89

Stevens, Wallace, 18, 90, 128, 171, 178, 284, 313

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 15, 23, 28, 36, 228, 262, 283, 316, 358

Stewart, Harold, 231

Stewart, Rory, 8

Stieglitz, Alfred, 221

Stifter, Adalbert, 404

Stoic, The (Dreiser), 43

Stoker, Bram, 125, 165, 254

Stolz, Mary, 161

Stone, Irving, 269

Stone, Robert, 264

Stoner (Williams), 277, 289

Stonewall, 18, 22

Stonier, G. W., 385

Stoppard, Tom, 211

Stop-Time (Conroy), 195

Story, 286

Story of a Marriage, The (Greer), 159

“Story of a Siren” (Forster), 251

Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The (Wroblewski), 152

Story of My Life (Casanova), 125

Story Sisters, The (Hoffman), 94

Stout, Rex, 323, 338

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 33, 73, 209, 370

Strachey, Lytton, 26

Straight, Michael, 214

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson), 15, 28

Stranger, The (Camus), 146, 360

Stranger Beside Me, The (Rule), 313

Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein), 112, 247

Stranger’s Child, The (Hollinghurst), 209

Strangers on a Train, 303

Stratemeyer, Edward, 303

Straub, Peter, 310

Strauss, Leo, 329

Street of Crocodiles, The (Schulz), 121

Strindberg, August, 153

Strong Motion (Franzen), 111

Strunk, William, Jr., 107, 209

Study of Thomas Hardy (Lawrence), 282

Sturgeon, Theodore, 244

Sturges, Preston, 381

Styron, William, 77, 184, 186, 321, 327

Subterraneans, The (Kerouac), 74

Sue, Eugène, 25

suicide, 11, 289, 335, 385; fake, 300; in fiction, 3, 5, 24, 157, 247, 253, 341, 405; writer’s, 35, 44, 51, 62, 77, 96, 267, 302, 349, 366, 386

Suite Française (Némirovsky), 102, 173, 194, 219

Sullivan, Andrew, 253, 395

Sullivan, John Jeremiah, 295

Summer (Wharton), 222

Summers, Montague, 253

“Sunday Morning” (Stevens), 171

Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, A (Wallace), 87

Supreme Court, 100, 118, 193, 211

Survival in Auschwitz (Levi), 32, 145, 322

Survivors of the Andes, 51

Susann, Jacqueline, 197, 231, 251, 298

Sutherland, John, 334

Svevo, Italo, 290

Swedenborg, Emanuel, 100

Sweetstory, Miss Helen, 114

Swift, Daniel, 402

Swift, Graham, 107, 143

Swift, Jonathan, 33, 330, 337, 351, 375

Swinburne, Algernon, 126, 247

Swofford, Anthony, 321

Swope, Herbert Bayard, 193

Symonds, John Addington, 246

Symons, A. J. A., 337

Synge, J. M., 121

Szymborska, Wisława, 40

 

Tagore, Rabindranath, 250

Talented Mr. Ripley, The (Highsmith), 372

Tale of Genji, The (Murasaki), 25

Tale of Love and Darkness, A (Oz), 11

Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The (Potter), 282

Tale of Peter Rabbit, The (Potter), 31, 282, 395

Talese, Gay, 40, 46, 174, 354

Talking Heads, 334, 366

Tamburlaine (Marlowe), 144

Tape for the Turn of the Year (Ammons), 394

Tarbell, Ida M., 11, 66

Tarkington, Booth, 31, 347

Tartt, Donna, 334, 348, 402

“Tarzan of the Apes” (Burroughs), 75, 228, 380

Tate, Allen, 48

Tate, Sharon, 251

Taylor, A. J. P., 284

Taylor, Elizabeth (novelist), 364

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 115

Tejero, Antonio, 62

Telander, Rick, 261

Tell My Horse (Hurston), 398

Temple, Minny, 79

Temple, Shirley, 339

Temptation of St. Anthony, The (Flaubert), 410

Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (Brontë), 216

Ten-Cent Plague, The (Hajdu), 100

Ten Days That Shook the World (Reed), 311

Tennyson, Alfred, 34, 125, 317, 363, 366

Tennyson, Charles, 125

Tenth of December (Saunders), 389

Ten Thousand Lives (Ko), 258

Tent Life in Siberia (Kennan), 55

Terkel, Studs, 155, 191, 342

Ternan, Ellen, 182

Terrorist (Updike), 211

Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Hardy), 28, 137, 139, 159, 370

Testament of Youth (Brittain), 279, 280, 405

Tevis, Walter, 252

Texaco (Chamoiseau), 220

Texier, Catherine, 342

Tey, Josephine, 52, 214

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 110, 230, 245, 334

Thatcher, Margaret, 350

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston), 316, 398

them (Oates), 82

theme parks, 162, 213

Theory of Moral Sentiments, The (Smith), 353

Theroux, Paul, 53, 115

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (McCoy), 296

Thimble Theatre, The (Segar), 22

Thin Man, The (Hammett), 29, 404

Third Policeman, The (O’Brien), 78, 237, 298

This All Happened (Winter), 227

This American Life, 149

This Boy’s Life (Wolff), 367

This Is Water (Wallace), 172

This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 108

Thomas, Dylan, 338, 378

Thomas, Lowell, 272

Thomas, Robert McG., Jr., 12

Thomas Paine (Best), 184

Thompson, E. P., 271

Thompson, Hunter S., 59, 101, 120, 141, 177, 226, 325

Thompson, Jim, 110, 112, 297

Thomson, Basil, 306

Thoreau, Henry David, xv, 16, 37, 85, 124, 128, 145, 220, 227, 301

Thoreau, John, Jr., 16

Thousand Acres, A (Smiley), 287

Thrale, Hester, 392

Three Junes (Glass), 173

Three Lives (Stein), 164, 326

Three Musketeers, The (Dumas), 75

Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll), 143

Thurber, James, 347

Thurman, Wallace, 259

Thy Neighbor’s Wife (Talese), 174

Tidyman, Ernest, 222

Time, 74, 100, 198

Time of Your Life, The (Saroyan), 179

Timequake (Vonnegut), 303

Timerman, Jacobo, 356

Times Literary Supplement, 143, 156

Time Traveler’s Wife, The (Niffenegger), 201

Tinker, Emma, 362

Tinkers (Harding), 117

Tintin in the Congo (Hergé), 140

Tintin in Tibet (Hergé), 140

“Tiny Mummies” (Wolfe), 116, 160

Tiptree, James, Jr., 267, 369

Titan, The (Dreiser), 43

Titanic, 121

Titus Groan (Peake), 144

Toad of Toad Hall (Milne), 396

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 150, 222, 237, 329

Tóibín, Colm, 131, 169

To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 218, 366, 404

Toklas, Alice B., 87, 135, 286

Tolkien, J. R. R., xiv, 8, 27, 43, 63, 152, 161, 164, 195, 233, 279, 299, 351, 382

Tolson, Melvin, 45

Tolstoy, Leo, 5, 43, 55, 95, 102, 131, 194, 201, 227, 271, 339, 352

Tomb of Tutankhamen, The (Carter), 371

Tomine, Adrian, 170

Tomlinson, Charles, 201

Tomorrow (Havel), 408

Ton Beau de Marot, Le (Hofstadter), 401

Toole, John Kennedy, 76, 386

Toomer, Jean, 101, 284

To Reach the Clouds (Petit), 250

Torn, Rip, 163

To the End of the Land (Grossman), 255

To the Lighthouse (Woolf), 135, 373

Touching the Rock (Hull), 55

Touchstone, The (Wharton), 12

Tourgée, Albion W., 65, 141

Tournier, Michel, 398

Toward the End of Time (Updike), 324

Tragedy of Arthur, The (Phillips), 183

Trager, James, 68

“Trail of the Apaches” (Leonard), 365

Transmigration of Timothy Archer, The (Dick), 59

Traubel, Horace, 99

Travels in Siberia (Frazier), 55, 288

Travels with Lizbeth (Eighner), 25

Traven, B., 97, 248

Travers, P. L., 128

Treasure Island (Stevenson), 228

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (Traven), 97, 248

Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (Smith), 261

Trevor, William, 163

Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 130

Trial, The (Kafka), 338

Trillin, Alice, 288

Trillin, Calvin, 288, 384, 390

Trilling, Diana, 198, 334

Trip to the Stars, A (Christopher), 395

Trollope, Anthony, 49, 50, 129, 234, 292, 338, 362

Trollope, Frances, 49

Tropic of Cancer (Miller), 328, 403

Tropic of Capricorn (Miller), 408

Trotsky, Leon, 264

Trousers and the Most Precious Instrument (Gill), 61

Trout Fishing in America (Brautigan), 35, 342

Trow, George W. S., 11, 263, 305

Truce, The. See Re-awakening, The

True Believer, The (Hoffer), 296

True Detective, 313

True History of the Kelly Gang, The (Carey), 49

Trujillo, Rafael, 169

Trumbo, Dalton, 200, 287

Truth About Hillary, The (Klein), 239

Tuchman, Barbara W., 35, 45, 242, 243, 253

Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt), 241

Tucker, Ken, 165

Tully, Jim, 195, 329

Tumin, Melvin, 284

Tunis, John R., 43

Turgenev, Ivan, 99, 280, 339

Turn of the Screw, The (James), 378

Twain, Mark, 10, 48, 55, 75, 126, 194, 259, 358, 375, 388, 410

Twenty-Five (Nichols), 238

Twenty-Seventh City, The (Franzen), 111

2666 (Bolaño), 357

$20,000 Pyramid, 132

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne), 92

Twilight (Meyer), 193

Twilight of the Idols (Nietzsche), 8

Two Sisters (Vidal), 295

2001 (Clarke), 17

Two Years Before the Mast (Dana), 78

Tyler, Anne, 336

Tynan, Kathleen, 203

Tynan, Kenneth, 119, 142, 203

Tyndale, William, 317

Typee (Melville), 88

Tytler, James, 270

 

U and I (Baker), 249

Ubik (Dick), 173, 290

Ubu Roi (Jarry), 90, 389, 408

Ulysses (Joyce), xiv, 41, 44, 84, 111, 115, 189, 190, 213, 259, 304, 389

Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (Kundera), 223, 273

Unbroken (Hillenbrand), 166

Unburied, The (Palliser), 391

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 169, 214

Underhill, Jacques, 188

“Under the Bamboo Tree,” 56

“Under the Moon of Mars” (Burroughs), 75

Under the Volcano (Lowry), 61, 129, 347

Under Western Eyes (Conrad), 45

Underworld (DeLillo), 314

Undset, Sigrid, 183

Unfortunates, The (Johnson), 44

Universal History of Infamy, A (Borges), 262

universities and colleges: Brown, 370; Cambridge, 102, 336, 366; Chicago, 407; Chico State, 89; Columbia, 99, 218, 398; Cornell, 107; Ghent, 94; Girton, 102; Haile Selassie, 394; Harvard, 58, 101, 111, 132, 181, 393; Hunter, 146; Kenyon, 172; Lincoln, 157; Loyola, 386; Nebraska, 297; Oxford, 14, 96, 102, 244, 317, 353, 382; Princeton, 108, 399; Stanford, 182; Trinity, 359; Tufts, 370; Tuskegee, 110; Vassar, 102, 172; Virginia, 91; Washington, 181; Western Ontario, 274; Wisconsin, 211

Unnameable, The (Beckett), 190

Unsuitable Attachment, An (Pym), 91

Untermeyer, Louis, 260

Unwin, Stanley, 63

Updike, John, 11, 32, 71, 89, 174, 196, 211, 224, 249, 300, 303, 324, 331, 395

Uris, Leon, 194

Urn Burial (Browne), 212

Utopia (More), 169

 

V. (Pynchon), 242, 267

Valentino, Rudolf, 209

Valentine, St., 37-38

Valéry, Paul, 228

Valis (Dick), 59

Valley of Decision, The (Wharton), 260

Valley of the Dolls (Susann), 197, 251

Vandover and the Brute (Norris), 58

van Gogh, Vincent, 214

Vanity Fair (magazine), 385

Vanity Fair (Thackeray), 230, 334

Vanity Girl, The (Mackenzie), 153

Van Vechten, Carl, 190

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 51, 99, 403

Velikovsky, Immanuel, 263

Verlaine, Paul, 13, 218

Verne, Jules, 92, 400

Vertigo (Sebald), 184

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chambers), 88

Vian, Boris, 81, 196

Victim, The (Bellow), 372

Vidal, Gore, 132, 295, 305, 314, 383

Village Voice, 410

Vinge, Vernor, 6

Virgil, 181, 298

Vision, A (Yeats), 338

Visit from the Goon Squad, A (Egan), 153

Vita nuova (Dante), 181

Vitti, Jon, 230

Vivian Grey (Disraeli), 80, 388

Vogel, Henriette, 366

Vollmann, William T., 236, 363

Voltaire, 160, 211, 346, 353, 366, 385

von Ardenne, Elizabeth, 372

von Däniken, Erich, 162

von Doderer, Heimito, 402

von Mises, Ludwig, 321

Vonnegut, Kurt, 52, 63, 185, 253, 303, 338, 356, 373

Vortigern (Ireland), 107

Vowell, Sarah, 406

Vox (Baker), 254

Voyage of the Beagle, The (Darwin), 312

 

W., Bill, 390

Wagner, Erica, 382

Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 217, 392

Waitkus, Eddie, 187

Walcott, Derek, 28

Walden (Thoreau), 128

Walker, Alice, 48, 258

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 209

Wallace, David Foster, 51, 60, 87, 95, 104, 105, 141, 172, 193, 289, 324, 362, 363, 398

Wallace, Edgar, 82

Wallace, George, 101

Wallace, Irving, 202

Wallace, Lew, 111, 296

Wallechinsky, David, 44

Wallis, Henry, 267

Walpole, Horace, 96

Walpole, Hugh, 302

Walser, Robert, 120, 404

Walter, Natasha, 371

Walton, Izaak, 394

Wambaugh, Joseph, 27, 80

Wanderer (Hayden), 20

War and Peace (Tolstoy), 194, 335, 381, 392

War of the Worlds, The (Wells), 34

Ward, Lynd, 201

Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 54

Ware, Chris, 300, 407

Warlock (Hall), 269

Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 140

Warren, Robert Penn, 170, 243, 246, 292

Warren Report, The, 251, 304

wars: Bosnian, 183; Civil, 70, 72, 99, 111, 210, 221, 361, 370; Iraq, 370; Korean, 159, 220; Spanish-American, 164; Vietnam, 46, 96, 159, 203, 332, 357, 380; World War I, 47, 78, 86, 178, 209, 216, 242, 243, 253, 276, 279, 282, 290, 314, 345, 359, 369, 405; World War II, 23, 36, 52, 86, 100, 102, 131, 145, 146, 161, 166, 175, 178, 194, 211, 214, 216, 239, 276, 286, 306, 341, 365, 379, 396

Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, The, 216

Washington, Booker T., 110

Wasserstein, Wendy, 35

Waste Land, The (Eliot), 29, 56, 74, 103, 105

Watergate, 134, 192, 284, 291, 336

Waters, Sarah, 229

Watership Down (Adams), 236

Watson, James D., 52

Watson, John H., 200

Watterson, Bill, 213, 400

Watts, Alan, 361

Watts, Charlie, 195

Waugh, Evelyn, 23, 115, 143, 156, 267, 339

Waverley (Scott), 43

Waves, The (Woolf), 217

Way of All Flesh, The (Butler), 18, 186

Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 80, 353

Weary Blues, The (Hughes), 385

Weaver, Courtney, 304

Webb, Beatrice, 147

Webster, Noah, 167

Webster’s New International Dictionary, 67, 323

Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 323

Wedekind, Frank, 80

“Weeds, The” (McCarthy), 293

Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A (Thoreau), 16

Wee Willie Winkie, 339

Weil, Simone, 40, 267

Weir, David, 334

Weird Tales, 74

Welch, Denton, 409

Welch, James, 247, 345

Weldon, Fay, 299

Well of Loneliness, The (Hall), 361

Wells, H. G., 31, 34, 68, 298, 304

Wells, Ida B., 292

Welsh, Irvine, 304

Welty, Eudora, 118, 185, 213

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Shriver), 113

“We Real Cool” (Brooks), 171

Werfel, Alma Mahler, 290

Werfel, Franz, xi, 269, 290

Wertham, Fredric, 100, 385

Wertheim, Stanley, 298

Weschler, Lawrence, 368

Wescott, Glenway, 116

West, Anthony, 302, 304

West, Dorothy, 259

West, Nathanael, 118, 328, 370, 401

West, Rebecca, 54, 86, 304

Westlake, Donald E., 199, 410

Wetherell, W. D., 345

Whalen, Philip, 318

Wharton, Edith, 12, 29, 112, 143, 213, 222, 260, 277, 323, 339, 360, 382

What If the Female Manager of a High School Baseball Team Read Drucker’s Management (Iwasaki), 383

What It Is (Barry), 248

“What’s the Matter with Kansas?” (White), 34

What the Dead Know (Lippman), 100

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Carver), 27, 216

Wheatley, Phillis, 384

“When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d” (Whitman), 105, 120

When the World Was Steady (Messud), 173

When You Reach Me (Stead), 132

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? (Semple), 392

“Where Is the Voice Coming From?” (Welty), 185

Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak), 129

White, E. B., 107, 133, 219, 388

White, Edmund, 18, 224

White, Gilbert, 199, 391

White, Katharine, 302

White, Patrick, 167, 388

White, T. H., 22

White, William Allen, 34

White Album, The (Didion), 375

Whitehead, Alfred North, 286

Whitehead, Colson, 73

White Noise (DeLillo), 235, 277

White Teeth (Smith), 3, 5

Whitman, Sarah Helen, 26

Whitman, Walt, 97, 99, 104, 105, 120, 170, 212, 246, 355, 361

“Whitsun Weddings, The” (Larkin), 139, 167, 354

Whoreson (Goines), 330

“Why I Live at the P.O.” (Welty), 213

Why No Revival? (Chick), 118

Why Orwell Matters (Hitchens), 285

Why We Run (Heinrich), 315

Wideman, John Edgar, 48, 187

Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys), 331, 350

Widmerpool, Kenneth, 214

Wife of Martin Guerre, The (Lewis), 289

Wikipedia, 180, 284

Wilberforce, William, 237

Wilbur, Richard, 333

Wilde, Oscar, 10, 43, 107, 126, 301, 327, 375

Wilder, Billy, 176, 333

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 22, 49

Wilder, Thornton, 386

Will (Liddy), 192, 284

Willems, Mo, 50

Williams, Garth, 133, 232

Williams, George Washington, 245

Williams, John, 74, 277, 289

Williams, Joy, 50

Williams, Tennessee, 19, 64, 82, 104, 134, 197

Williams, William Carlos, 66, 74, 192

“William Wilson” (Poe), 24

Willis, Connie, 410

Willson, Meredith, 188

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Carver), 175

Wilson, Angus, 170, 402

Wilson, August, 313

Wilson, Edmund, 20, 90, 185, 211, 213, 293, 375, 399

Winchester, Simon, 305

Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame), 149, 282, 369, 396

Wind, Sand, and Stars (Saint-Exupéry), 409

“Wine of Wizardry, A” (Sterling), 281

Winfrey, Oprah, 301

Wings of the Dove, The (James), 79, 282

Winnie-the-Pooh (Milne), 264

Winsor, Kathleen, 165, 328

Winter, Michael, 227

Winterson, Jeanette, 270

Winter World (Heinrich), 315

Wirt, Mildred, 303

Wise Blood (O’Connor), 57

Wister, Owen, 229

Within the Context of No Context (Trow), 263

With Walt Whitman in Camden (Traubel), 99

Witlings, The (Burney), 245

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 51, 131, 305, 336

Wittgenstein’s Poker (Edmonds and Eidinow), 336

Wodehouse, P. G., 53, 101, 211, 252, 321, 326, 359

Wolf, Christa, 304, 380

Wolf Among Wolves, A (Fallada), 36

Wolfe, Gene, 146

Wolfe, Thomas, 212, 217, 292, 327

Wolfe, Tom, 40, 73, 116, 160, 326

Wolff, Duke, 367

Wolff, Geoffrey, 83, 367

Wolff, Kurt, 56, 107

Wolff, Larry, 101

Wolff, Tobias, 192, 216, 367

Wolf Hall (Mantel), 30

Wolk, Douglas, 335

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 132, 287

Womack, Dooley, 269

Woman Adrift (Owen), 54

Woman in White, The (Collins), 234

Woman’s Life, A (Maupassant), 339

Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The (Baum), 320

Wood, Evelyn, 13

Wood, James, 149, 211, 324, 326, 346

Wood, Michael, 328, 367

Woodburn, John, 61

Woodson, Carter G., 38, 385

Woodward, Bob, 97, 336

Woodward, C. Vann, 396

Woolf, Virginia, xiv–xv, 30, 48, 50, 99, 110, 135, 143, 212, 217, 248, 259, 273, 279, 316, 322, 329, 340, 361, 373

Woollcott, Alexander, 47, 388

Woolrich, Cornell, 302

Wordsworth, Dorothy, 30, 117, 314

Wordsworth, William, 25, 112, 117, 221, 267, 271, 275, 314, 358

Working (Terkel), 191

Worlds in Collision (Velikovsky), 263

Worst Journey in the World, The (Cherry-Garrard), 151, 208

Wouk, Herman, 146

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 153

Wright, Lawrence, 262

Wright, Richard, 51, 100, 168, 172, 281, 316, 322, 356

Wrinkle in Time, A (L’Engle), 311

Wroblewski, David, 152

Wuthering Heights (Brontë), 20, 91, 212, 216

Wyndham, John, 82

 

Yacoubian Building, The (Aswany), 73

Yagoda, Ben, 160

Yates, Richard, 65, 352

Year of Magical Thinking, The (Didion), 402, 409

Yeats, William Butler, 33, 36, 129, 338, 385, 389

Y. Cheung, Business Detective (Keeler), 27

Yefimov, Boris, 312

Yerby, Frank, 374

Yerkes, Charles Tyson, 43

Yezierska, Anzia, 366, 396

Yiddish Policemen’s Union, The (Chabon), 3, 410

Yorke, Henry. See Green, Henry

You Are Not a Stranger Here (Haslett), 229

You Can’t Take It with You (Kaufman and Hart), 301

You Can’t Win (Black), 9

Young, Chic, 14

You Only Live Twice (Fleming), 244

Yourcenar, Marguerite, 29, 126, 181

Youth (Conrad), 36

Yugen, 270

 

Zamperini, Louis, 166

Zeitoun (Eggers), 274

Zero History (Gibson), 180

Žižek, Slavoj, 92

Zmuda, Joe, 191

Zola, Émile, 18, 108, 109, 118, 177, 214, 306

Zuleika Dobson (Beerbohm), 349

Zweig, Stefan, 62, 373