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Seven Reviews of Seven Books I Love
The Rings of Saturn — W.G. Sebald
Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams Is a Perfect Novella
The Pale King — David Foster Wallace
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Intertexuality and Structure in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
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Seven Hands (Van Gogh)
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Seven Books I’d Like to Read Sometime in the Next Seven Years
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Seven Negative Reviews
Why I Abandoned Chad Harbach’s Over-Hyped Novel The Art of Fielding After Only 100 Pages
Jonathan Lethem’s Bloodless Prose
I Super Hated Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
The Sot-Weed Factor — John Barth
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Seven Ballerinas (Picasso)
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Seven Perfect Short Stories
“The Death of Me” — Gordon Lish
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” — Flannery O’Connor
“The School” — Donald Barthelme
“Wakefield” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Good Old Neon” — David Foster Wallace
Happy 7th Anniversary Bibi!
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Happy birthdayversary :)
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Congratulations. I am looking forward to reading the next 7 years.
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¡Feliz cumpleaños! Cool list! :-D
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I love Knut Hamsun. All of his novels are astonishing, similar in feel to Halldor Laxness in some intangible Scandinavian way. I really can’t decide which of Hamsun’s I like best. Possibly Mysteries…or Pan…or Growth of the Soil…or Hunger….
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Have you seen Tarr’s Satantango?
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Alles Gute…und: grandiose Auswahl.
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Don’t wait any longer to read Hamsun’s Hunger.
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Happy Birthday Bibby. And PJ is right. Read Hunger.
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I will get to it. Sometime before 2020.
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I’ll check back with you then then
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