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attraction repulsion 52 Gustave Flaubert 52 arrestingly 52 Anthologist 52 concision 52 Flannery O'Conner 52 Four Quartets 52 poetical 52 Orlando Furioso 52 Lispector 52 Tatjana Soli 52 declarative sentence 52 Pessl 52 Flaubert 52 Unknown Terrorist 52 terseness 52 wry asides 52 Moor Pavane 52 oneiric 52 Theodore Roethke 52 apercus 52 aphorist 52 Dos Passos 52 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 52 contrapuntal 52 Emily Brontë 52 poetic lyricism 52 dustjacket 52 inflects 52 Barthelme 52 Lasdun 52 autobiographical sketch 52 Pelevin 52 Rainer Maria Rilke 52 epigram 52 magic realist 52 Mordden 52 Márai 52 Théophile Gautier 52 Bloodroot 52 belabors 52 Marías 52 unexpected juxtapositions 52 delicately nuanced 52 darkly poetic 52 Elif Batuman 52 WG Sebald 52 prolix 52 crystalline prose 52 wonderfully readable 52 easeful 52 wonderfully evocative 52 Bernard DeVoto 52 panegyric 52 metafictional 52 Czeslaw Milosz 52 gorgeously photographed 52 Etzioni Halevy 52 Emerson Thoreau 52 intertitles 52 billet doux 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densely layered 51 utterly unsentimental 51 le mot juste 51 hyperrealism 51 interwoven narratives 51 Baricco 51 Wordsworthian 51 overdetermined 51 travelogue 51 Steinbeck novel 51 meta theatrical 51 Ashbery 51 arioso 51 quasi autobiographical 51 denotative 51 Moral Disorder 51 chromaticism 51 ethereality 51 subordinate clauses 51 picaresque tale 51 Aleksandar Hemon 51 baroquely 51 Expressionistic 51 Antonya Nelson 51 explication 51 Lavishly illustrated 51 elegy 51 Kristeva 51 acutely perceptive 51 Stavans 51 lucidity 51 Edmund Spenser 51 Hölderlin 51 Camera Lucida 51 medias res 51 Ethan Canin 51 Tóibín 51 eloquent prose 51 weaves tale 51 bitingly funny 51 novel Mrs. Dalloway 51 Alphonse Daudet 51 Whitmanesque 51 Kehlmann 51 masterwork 51 Whistling Season 51 Jamesian 51 impeccable phrasing 51 illuminatingly 51 Roman poet Ovid 51 Herman Melville novel 51 fictionalized memoir 51 homo eroticism 51 Vendler 51 Sor Juana 51 Ellroy 51 expository prose 51 Rereading 51 Imperial Bedrooms 51 tautly constructed 51 poet Theodore Roethke 51 grippingly 51 Collected Poems #-# 51 morality tales 51 Cavafy 51 witty prose 51 pulp noir 51 limning 51 Gravedigger Daughter 51 richly atmospheric 51 lyrical sensibility 51 stylistics 51 Ellingtonian 51 cadenced 51 terza rima 51 Dorothy Sayers 51 Yeats poem 51 Richard Brautigan 51 Dan Chaon 51 Glass Bead Game 51 unflinching honesty 51 wonderfully nuanced 51 wonderfully descriptive 51 Plato Symposium 51 Gödel Escher Bach 51 autobiographical 51 chronological narrative 51 Shakespeare Sonnets 51 chiaroscuro lighting 51 existential anguish 51 contemplations 51 Georges Bataille 51 finely nuanced 51 Futurist Manifesto 51 fictionalized tale 51 Dostoevskian 51 Italian giallo 50 finely etched 50 epiphanic 50 Cookbook Collector 50 literary masterpiece 50 scrupulously researched 50 autobiographer 50 skilfully weaves 50 Blakean 50 Oedipus myth 50 singspiel 50 Pulitizer Prize winning 50 florid descriptions 50 mordantly 50 unabashedly romantic 50 Keats 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Vladislavic 50 doubleness 50 Maria Rilke 50 Borgesian 50 Erle Stanley Gardner 50 finely wrought 50 Myla Goldberg 50 EM Cioran 50 Kurtág 50 medieval tapestries 50 Mrs Dalloway 50 Edmund Gosse 50 Kafka Metamorphosis 50 omniscient narration 50 Collected Poems 50 Herman Hesse 50 epic poem 50 seeming effortlessness 50 intertextual 50 rhapsodies 50 Invisible Cities 50 Look Homeward Angel 50 visually ravishing 50 Almereyda 50 Drama Mex 50 recurring motifs 50 hardboiled detective 50 philosophical musings 50 melodiousness 50 Altmanesque 50 Allen Ginsberg Howl 50 psychological thrillers 50 Poledouris 50 Thoreau Walden 50 introspective lyrics 50 Groag 50 darkly hilarious 50 literal depiction 50 Au Hasard Balthazar 49 densely textured 49 neo classicism 49 Dostoyevsky novel 49 poetic eloquence 49 fascinatingly 49 EE Cummings 49 Virgil Aeneid 49 unknowability 49 Djuna Barnes 49 García Márquez 49 Christopher Benfey 49 Larry Beinhart 49 hauntingly 49 ingenuousness 49 Adam Mansbach 49 Maeterlinck 49 Philip Lopate 49 gigue 49 spareness 49 metanarrative 49 rhapsodically 49 ambiguousness 49 intricate tapestry 49 beguiling 49 Gimlette 49 Paul Valéry 49 unforgettable melodies 49 rawly 49 Shakespeare sonnets 49 Organized chronologically 49 Federico García Lorca 49 harmonic sophistication 49 Soren Kierkegaard 49 Plainsong 49 absurdist humor 49 Fanny Burney 49 impish humor 49 hauntingly evocative 49 Unquiet Grave 49 archaisms 49 David Budbill 49 fictionalized biography 49 grittily realistic 49 allegorical tale 49 retelling 49 Pigeon Feathers 49 linear narrative 49 sinister undertone 49 absurdism 49 Helen Vendler 49 anthology edited 49 Akhmatova 49 interwoven storylines 49 poet Fernando Pessoa 49 Ginsberg Howl 49 Ozick 49 subtly nuanced 49 Hecho en Tejas 49 delightfully offbeat 49 Edith Grossman 49 beatnik poet 49 evocatively 49 Dashiell Hammet 49 Transcendentalist 49 Elinor Lipman 49 limn 49 melodic passages 49 melancholy 49 German expressionists 49 visceral immediacy 49 eloquent 49 Cioran 49 Wickedly funny 49 ballades 49 vivid depictions 49 Rum Diary written 49 teacherly 49 Margaret Jull Costa 49 expertly weaves 49 fictionalising 49 Leanne Shapton 49 Koryta 49 Suffused 49 verismo opera 49 spellbindingly 49 darkly humorous 49 quatrain 49 Nussimbaum 49 unsensational 49 delicately wrought 49 Anouilh 49 Britten opera 49 CP Cavafy 49 painterliness 49 delphic 49 melodic invention 49 Boccaccio Decameron 49 autobiographical trilogy 49 symphonic poem 49 Bucky Sinister 49 Douglas Hofstadter 49 midrashic 49 Rilke 49 Sophocles Oedipus Rex 49 supernatural overtones 49 overly melodramatic 49 Javier Marías 49 Anansi Boys 49 Mysterious Flame 49 '#s psychedelia 49 poem Twas 49 ruefulness 49 electrifyingly 49 Cinematically 49 Unaccustomed Earth 49 Italo Svevo 49 Hieronymus Bosch painting 49 deftly woven 49 Eminent Victorians 49 purple prose 49 Gary Giddins 49 Kent Haruf 49 Larry McMurtry novel 49 Millhauser 49 Joycean 49 ee cummings 49 philosophical treatise 49 sly humor 49 morbidly fascinating 49 melodic solos 49 Holy Sonnets 49 Rabbit Angstrom 49 excursus 49 Purgatorio 49 Ainadamar 49 Hell Purgatory 49 Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary 49 narratives 49 Aleichem 49 Silk Parachute 49 heartbreakingly beautiful 49 Uncommon Reader 49 wryly amusing 49 B. Traven 49 Juliet Nicolson 49 penetratingly 49 Gaitskill 49 John Banville 49 metaphorical meanings 49 writings 49 Tennyson poem 49 Theophile Gautier 49 declamatory 49 Kipling poem 49 decidedly unsentimental 49 Blithedale Romance 49 Maurice Blanchot 49 mawkish sentimentality 49 transportive 49 multicharacter 49 abstract compositions 49 Laurie Colwin 49 crisp articulation 49 œuvre 49 wistful ballad 49 Little Gidding 49 terrifically entertaining 49 Anais Nin 49 Aristotle Poetics 49 Géricault 49 Goethe Faust 49 SN Behrman 49 darkly satirical 49 droll deadpan 49 Melancholic 49 Discomfort Zone 49 Jane Austen Charles Dickens 49 anthologist 49 autobiographical writings 49 self reflexivity 49 bitingly satirical 49 epistolary romance 49 marginalia 49 Chaucerian 49 longueur 49 erotically charged 49 journalistic reportage 49 hokiness 49 delightfully witty 49 afterword 49 breathless prose 49 Albert Goldbarth 49 seriocomedy 49 nameless narrator 49 geometric patterning 49 Eliot Weinberger 49 Petrarch 49 abstract expressionistic 49 Shavian 49 choreopoem 49 Norse myths 49 captivatingly 49 Myles na 49 Dew Breaker 49 Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy 49 Grimm fairy tales 49 Don Delillo 49 visual puns 49 floridly 49 bracingly 48 Marie Ponsot 48 richly satisfying 48 unbearable poignancy 48 Alberto Moravia 48 handwritten manuscript 48 Hemingway esque 48 Voltaire Candide 48 Darkly funny 48 bittersweetness 48 Bach chorale 48 theological treatise 48 unsatisfyingly 48 plaintiveness 48 bookishness 48 Dreiser 48 Homeric epic 48 Charlotte Brontë classic 48 recountings 48 Michael Dirda 48 Namita Devidayal 48 Kavenna 48 Shock Corridor 48 Ravel La Valse 48 balladic 48 noir ish 48 curlicued 48 Bachian 48 TC Boyle 48 Un Lun Dun 48 Complete Poems 48 gifted storyteller 48 Stellet Licht Silent 48 cinematographer Andrij Parekh 48 Walter Pater 48 dreamlike imagery 48 Zafón 48 Bonjour Tristesse 48 Sonnets 48 witty urbane 48 wildly imaginative 48 Lydia Millet 48 Tyrant Novel 48 Jack Handey 48 Emanuele Crialese 48 Grimms Fairy Tales 48 Aimee Bender 48 Rulfo 48 numinous 48 Hermann Hesse 48 unaffectedly 48 Childe Harold Pilgrimage 48 profundity 48 Galway Kinnell 48 novelettes 48 Metamorphosen 48 strophic 48 explicating 48 disarmingly funny 48 Sufi poet Rumi 48 German Expressionism 48 melodic inventiveness 48 AE Housman 48 Popul Vuh 48 Reif Larsen 48 elisions 48 sarcastic wit 48 noir genre 48 Rational Optimist 48 Painted Drum 48 Inherent Vice 48 SJ Perelman 48 Matsuo Basho 48 chiasmus 48 Ed Sikov 48 enchantingly 48 sensualist 48 drollness 48 Wartzman 48 self mythologising 48 Arthur Rimbaud 48 subversively funny 48 Edith Wharton novel 48 Ruders 48 Heidi Julavits 48 searingly honest 48 erudite playful 48 masterfully crafted 48 neo romanticism 48 obliqueness 48 novel 48 Y Tu Mamá 48 interrogative 48 puckish humor 48 wickedly funny 48 Faustian tale 48 Paul Eluard 48 Feiffer 48 skillfully weaves 48 plangent 48 perceptiveness 48 Paul Bernbaum 48 unpretentiously 48 novel Cat Cradle 48 cinéma vérité 48 Feydeau 48 slyly witty 48 Kenneth Rexroth 48 droll 48 novelist Neil Gaiman 48 heartrendingly 48 kaleidoscopic portrait 48 songful 48 hagiographical 48 unflinching candor 48 Elizabethan playwright 48 biblical exegesis 48 Jean Giono 48 Silmarillion 48 Mysterious Stranger 48 roman à clef 48 Edward Bulwer Lytton 48 surrealism 48 hymn tunes 48 dreamlike sequences 48 beautifully textured 48 cleareyed 48 filmmaker Luis Bunuel 48 Prodigal Daughter 48 rhythmic vitality 48 Sophocles Electra 48 clever wordplay 48 linguistic inventiveness 48 gothic tale 48 Hilaire Belloc 48 Oscar Hijuelos 48 Vertov 48 De Quincey 48 André Bazin 48 apologia 48 Isak Dinesen 48 Einstein Dreams 48 exquisitely nuanced 48 Machinal 48 narrator 48 dryly witty 48 Dostoyevskian 48 flowery prose 48 soaringly 48 unreliable narrator 48 Némirovsky 48 Euripides Medea 48 Love Walked 48 Paul Celan 48 allegory 48 satirical wit 48 fugal 48 narrative coherence 48 Tolstoy Anna Karenina 48 Midwife Tale 48 ponderings 48 droll humor 48 Symphonie Fantastique 48 typescript 48 policier 48 Uncle Remus tales 48 cryptogram 48 folk balladry 48 self referential humor 48 richly melodic 48 etymologies 48 nonliterary 48 Pickwick Papers 48 La Malinche 48 similes metaphors 48 filmmaker Luis Buñuel 48 melodicism 48 Cinnamon Kiss 48 Grant Nieporte 48 Theodore Roszak 48 Octavia Butler