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Of Wolves and Men
Barry Lopez
“of wolves and men which so impressed me”
“i actually read of wolves and men which so impressed me and i then started to look into reaching out to him”— Tim Ferriss
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We Were the Mulvaneys
Joyce Carol Oates
“including the national bestsellers we were the mulvaney's blonde and a widow's story among her many honors”— Tim Ferriss
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Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates
“i have a long novel called blonde which is about the the private life really the interior life of marilyn monroe”— Joyce Carol Oates
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A Widow's Story
Joyce Carol Oates
“including the national bestsellers we were the mulvaney's blonde and a widow's story among her many honors”— Tim Ferriss
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By the North Gate
Joyce Carol Oates
“your first book was published in 1963 by the north gate which was a collection of short stories”— Tim Ferriss
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Pursuit
Joyce Carol Oates
“pursuit is a new novel that came out last year it's really um almost like a novella it's a short novel”— Joyce Carol Oates
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them
Joyce Carol Oates
“i have an of them which is based on my own experience living through the civil disturbance or riot of detroit in july 1967”— Joyce Carol Oates
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The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
Joyce Carol Oates
“tales of the grotesque the corn maiden these are collections of short stories that are that are surreal or gothic horror”— Joyce Carol Oates
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Middle Age: A Romance
Joyce Carol Oates
“my novel middle age or romance came out the week of 9 11. so that was a disaster”— Joyce Carol Oates
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The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age
Joyce Carol Oates
“a more of a full lifetime memoirs the lost landscape a writer's story sort of looking at my looking at my life”— Joyce Carol Oates
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Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
“jonathan safran four former student of yours now a colleague of yours who also happened to be in my same class”— Tim Ferriss
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Ulysses
James Joyce
“so that one can walk in dublin and sort of walk through the you know the day of ulysses”— Joyce Carol Oates
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Paradise Lost
John Milton
“if you're reading paradise lost or the great place of shakespeare or middlemarch or ulysses you're overwhelmed”— Joyce Carol Oates
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
“if you're reading paradise lost or the great place of shakespeare or middlemarch or ulysses you're overwhelmed”— Joyce Carol Oates
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The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
“we read shirley jackson's a lottery and instead of writing a critique of the story i said if you want to you can write a little story”— Joyce Carol Oates
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
“there are probably jane austen novels that are you know pride and prejudice and emma and then you get to mansfield park”— Joyce Carol Oates
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Emma
Jane Austen
“there are probably jane austen novels that are you know pride and prejudice and emma and then you get to mansfield park”— Joyce Carol Oates
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
“and then you get to mansfield park not as many people would read that same with shakespeare”— Joyce Carol Oates
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Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare
“same with shakespeare measure for a measure just not as popular as hamlet it's not as important to play”— Joyce Carol Oates
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Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare
“try this in cressida is a fascinating play of shakespeare but if you're only going to teach two or three plays”— Joyce Carol Oates
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The Hamlet
William Faulkner
“somebody might prefer faulkner's the hamlet to faulkner's the sound and the fury”— Joyce Carol Oates
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
“somebody might prefer faulkner's the hamlet to faulkner's the sound and the fury”— Joyce Carol Oates
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Sanctuary
William Faulkner
“they might prefer sanctuary to light in august but again with faulkner he wrote a lot”— Joyce Carol Oates
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Light in August
William Faulkner
“they might prefer sanctuary to light in august but again with faulkner he wrote a lot”— Joyce Carol Oates
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