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poems 49 Blanche du Bois 49 digressive 49 delicately nuanced 49 intricately constructed 49 tragi 49 rebarbative 49 epigraphs 49 groaner 49 Awe inspiring 49 tweety 49 lumpish 49 Passionella 49 Darkly 49 finely etched 49 unmannered 49 escapist fiction 49 Hollywoodish 49 Meticulously researched 49 Chaucerian 49 gorgeously photographed 49 self referentiality 49 grotesquerie 49 sarky 49 Chalcot Crescent 49 fictionalising 49 Dostoevski 49 comically absurd 49 Nabokov Lolita 49 Almereyda 49 risqué humor 49 poetic imagery 49 po mo 49 unintentional hilarity 49 Mad Lib 49 Templesmith 49 scatological jokes 49 wholly believable 49 utterly beguiling 49 overly wordy 49 stony hearted 49 estimable talents 49 salaciousness 49 mordantly 49 sublime silliness 49 disarmingly candid 49 shiver inducing 49 chaste romance 49 rhymed verse 49 deliciously perverse 49 delightfulness 49 moanings 49 Moral Disorder 49 Albee Who Afraid 49 captivatingly 49 heartbreakingly beautiful 49 Pessl 49 Orpheus myth 49 heart wrenchingly 49 oft parodied 49 potrayal 49 fuckable 49 biblical allusions 49 authorial voice 49 incantatory 49 Don Delillo 49 Halley Wegryn Gross 49 writerly 49 Pithy 49 divertingly 49 whimsical 49 elicits laughs 49 wonderfully deadpan 49 consummate storyteller 49 Dostoevskian 49 Arthurian myth 49 satirical wit 49 Dada esque 49 disarmingly charming 49 ripely 49 sententious 49 bookishness 49 evocative 49 mildly risqué 49 morbidly fascinating 49 touchingly vulnerable 49 schticky 49 wince inducing 49 Purloined Letter 49 heart rendingly 49 directorial flourishes 49 limn 49 prolix 49 marvelously expressive 48 Hazel Motes 48 wordsmithery 48 allegorical 48 fictionalisation 48 snarky asides 48 romantic fable 48 bewitchingly 48 Djuna Barnes 48 heartrendingly 48 tweeness 48 groan inducing 48 Bill Pronzini 48 blisteringly funny 48 Shavian 48 philosophical rumination 48 fictionalization 48 Keats poem 48 Posy Simmonds 48 Adam Dannheisser 48 Hemingway esque 48 collage illustrations 48 bathetic 48 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Hirson 48 Bloodroot 48 essayistic 48 spoonerisms 48 deliciously subversive 48 Sardonic 48 gratuitous gore 48 Berni Wrightson 48 Laurie Colwin 48 self mythologizing 48 Sir Gawain 48 lushly illustrated 48 Playfulness 48 cloy 48 Night Watcher 48 hilariously campy 48 overacted 48 allegorical tale 48 expositional 48 frabjous 48 readerly 48 Elizabethan playwright 48 poetic verse 48 darkly hilarious 48 hokeyness 48 Inimitable 48 gothic overtones 48 autobio 48 lovingly rendered 48 Nelly Bly 48 gothic novels 48 bitchily 48 Milo Addica 48 Lost Terry O'Quinn 48 humorous 48 delightfully wacky 48 teacherly 48 achingly sincere 48 AE Houseman 48 Ghostwritten 48 quivery 48 liberally sprinkles 48 pantomimic 48 Satiric 48 objective correlative 48 Barbara Pym 48 Duino Elegies 48 cutsie 48 lugubrious 48 literary masterpiece 48 mordantly witty 48 hokiness 48 rhythmic cadences 48 mimsy 48 intellectual pretensions 48 Cinematically 48 humerous 48 inflects 48 Pelevin 48 gimcrackery 48 dustjacket 48 clunkiest 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