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Hermann Broch 50 keenly observant 50 Eleanor Reissa 50 Donald Harington 50 Benjamin Markovits 50 Keythe Farley 50 wonderfully understated 50 Mallarme 50 Nancy Palk 50 ANDREA SHEA 50 Inimitable 50 readable biography 50 Peter Schjeldahl 50 Donnersmarck 50 Charles Condomine 50 wonderfully droll 50 Imraan Coovadia 50 SU AZIZ 50 darker moodier 50 Coleman Barks 50 roman clef 50 broodingly 50 breeziness 50 Steven D. Greydanus 50 wit charm 50 Philip Lopate 50 Jean Claude Carrière 50 Fran Lebowitz 50 Jean Claude Donda 50 acoustic guitar strumming 50 sly asides 50 noir ish 50 Kevin Crust 50 Jodhi May 50 acoustic guitar riff 50 idiomatically 50 novelist EM Forster 50 Patricia Highsmith novel 50 Jacob de Zoet 50 supremely elegant 50 filmmaker Agnes Varda 50 mawkish sentimentality 50 Bazzana 50 Catán 50 Ryszard Kapuscinski 50 Isabelle Allende 50 Humperdinck opera 50 modernist sensibility 50 concision 50 populariser 50 Max Beerbohm 50 kevin keating staff 50 Alphonse Karr 50 Cahiers du Cinéma 50 Ailey Revelations 50 entrancingly 50 Bill Zehme 50 beautifully nuanced 50 mythic resonance 50 Compositionally 50 Thisbe Nissen 50 FRANCIS DASS 50 cinematic adaptations 50 James Glossman 49 Amy Hempel 49 David Pittu 49 Mary GrandPré 49 neo psychedelia 49 Frederick Buechner 49 Akashic Records 49 Michael Dirda 49 Theophile Gautier 49 Nicholas Lezard 49 Walter Pater 49 Asterios Polyp 49 Todd Babiak 49 Icelandic sagas 49 spareness 49 Copland Bernstein 49 Nevil Shute 49 Partisan Daughter 49 MacDermot 49 Ben Macintyre 49 Steven Heighton 49 Dominick Argento 49 homey ambiance 49 Myles na 49 nasal drawl 49 Shashi Deshpande 49 Louvish 49 Puckish 49 Kreutzer Sonata 49 Panos Cosmatos 49 Four Quartets 49 Hugh Whitemore 49 Kristeva 49 melodic sensibilities 49 sonic landscapes 49 essayist novelist 49 rhythmic vitality 49 Prosper Merimee 49 Acclaimed poet 49 Rumer Godden 49 Udayan Prasad 49 lush cinematography 49 nasally whine 49 dancer Isadora Duncan 49 Morvern Callar 49 Urlicht 49 leisurely paced 49 grippingly 49 Lavinia Greenlaw 49 Dercourt 49 Blade Itself 49 dustjacket 49 gifted storyteller 49 hymn tunes 49 philosophical musing 49 aphorist 49 Benito Cereno 49 Garrett Bithell 49 Hofmannsthal 49 Gaitskill 49 Mrs Dalloway 49 Ellen Geer 49 Hakuin 49 Margaret Drabble 49 incisive wit 49 novelist essayist 49 writer Fran Lebowitz 49 Thousand Autumns 49 con brio 49 Three Incestuous Sisters 49 delightfully witty 49 Cabaret Scenes 49 Isabel Dalhousie 49 Nick Tosches 49 Playwright Sarah Ruhl 49 Charlotte Brontë classic 49 Wilhelm Kempff 49 Seth Kolloen 49 Richard Brautigan 49 Oblomov 49 Merry Widow Waltz 49 heartbreakingly beautiful 49 compellingly 49 lyrical phrasing 49 Anais Nin 49 Grace Paley 49 Orlandersmith 49 Korder 49 ravishingly beautiful 49 Alexander Mackendrick 49 Ed Lachman 49 Mary Azarian 49 Jessica Thebus 49 guitarist Ben Monder 49 Ingrid Jonker 49 Digressions 49 Percy Bysshe Shelley 49 Berlovitz 49 singer songwriter Stew 49 Emmanuel Carrere 49 Baricco 49 poetic 49 Brigid Delaney 49 Chronicler 49 panegyric 49 Kleinzahler 49 Empress Orchid 49 Carina Chocano 49 succeeds admirably 49 Mel Gussow 49 Andrew Pyper 49 wry wit 49 Roberto Calasso 49 Edgar Varèse 49 densely textured 49 rhyming couplets 49 bitingly satirical 49 Alan Coren 49 soprano Jane Eaglen 49 Celia Wren 49 Pinteresque 49 Hellbound Hellraiser II 49 welcomingly 49 Hans Werner Henze 49 Almereyda 49 Antonia Fraser 49 Phillip Lopate 49 Cixous 49 Sam Lipsyte 49 Vertov 49 Shaye Areheart Books 49 Ashbery 49 Dalkey Archive 49 Zoe Whittall 49 challengingly 49 Italian giallo 49 abstract landscapes 49 Painted Drum 49 Stoppard Arcadia 49 delicately wrought 49 Lee Gutkind 49 unsentimental portrait 49 MacCaig 49 unabashedly romantic 49 Amigorena 49 PL Travers Mary Poppins 49 dramatist #-# 49 horn solos 49 mercurial moods 49 Miklos Laszlo 49 wryly humorous 49 harmonically rich 49 de Boinod 49 matchmaker Yente 49 William Lashner 49 Jiddu Krishnamurti 49 Emerson Thoreau 49 fussily 49 Complete Poems 49 Andrey Kurkov 49 Beautifully illustrated 49 Eminent Victorians 49 SN Behrman 49 Noah Richler 49 Kathi Appelt 49 lush romanticism 49 poet WH Auden 49 Edward Petherbridge 49 Nussimbaum 49 verbally dexterous 49 Bourgeois Gentleman 49 Fleur Adcock 49 pointillistic 49 chromatic harmonies 49 Yanna McIntosh 49 André Brink 49 Morton Lauridsen 49 Marías 49 sunniness 49 novella Shopgirl 49 declarative sentences 49 sensualist 49 Superbly acted 49 Chandleresque 49 Gilkyson 49 Spiral Staircase 49 cinematic soundscapes 49 Ned Sherrin 49 Thirteenth Tale 49 Stuart Dybek 49 Paolo Bacigalupi 49 gorgeously crafted 49 Haspiel 49 Madeline L' Engle 49 minimalist aesthetic 49 literary pretensions 49 Adrian Shergold 49 dissonant harmonies 49 Jon Bokenkamp 49 Joyce Grenfell 49 Decca Aitkenhead 49 Cahiers 49 Von Trotta 49 Barbara Rosenblat 49 Imperfect Birds 49 Shelley Frankenstein 49 erudition 49 resonantly 49 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 49 Mavis Cheek 49 delightfully whimsical 49 profundities 49 Diego Matamoros 49 mordantly funny 49 orchestrally 49 Dave Itzkoff 49 Keats Ode 49 J. Kelly Nestruck 49 Emily Brontë 49 Paul Sandby 49 Huneven 49 Wallace Baine 49 Dostoevski 49 intellectually nimble 49 modulated tones 49 Suite Française 49 Keith Uhlich 49 urbane wit 49 singspiel 49 plainspokenness 49 existentialist philosopher 49 Italo Calvino 49 Judith Krantz 49 eminently likeable 49 nonlinear storytelling 49 Elaine Showalter 49 arioso 49 harmonically sophisticated 49 Wertenbaker 49 tenor Ian Bostridge 49 Germanic accent 49 Didier van Cauwelaert 49 jazziness 49 Rosalind Ayres 49 Loren D. Estleman 49 nouveau roman 49 Clarice Lispector 49 tonal palette 49 Susan Bickley 49 Tsontakis 49 Nami Mun 49 soaringly 49 Expressionistic 49 novelette 49 Grisey 49 Georgette Heyer 49 impeccable craftsmanship 49 winsome charm 49 Prodigal Daughter 49 Annette Hanshaw 49 Tóibín 49 Kaurismaki 49 scholarly tome 49 grandmother Olga Sarantos 49 hauntingly evocative 49 hummable songs