Authors and Literature
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Russian
Literature Page |
 Russian Literature
page at Bucknell University, where such notable literary figures as Kareem-Abdul
Tolstoy (right) can be found. This is a mother-lode of stuff. best darn
page I've found so far for info Russian writers, although here's a couple
more:
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Mark Twain Page |
Anybody that can rip Fenimore Cooper a new one in the space of twelve
pages is all right with me. This page (from Syracuse University, I think...)
isn't the most amazing thing I've ever found, but it's a pretty nice compendium
of stuff on America's Funniest Emotionally-Scarred Satirist of the 19th
Century. |
San Narciso C.C. Pynchon Page |
Page dedicated to God. If you don't know, then you won't understand.
By the way, I received a first edition of the tome at left for my birthday
from my then-girlfriend/now-wife, which guaranteed my lifelong devotion
to the giver. THIS is the power of brilliant writing! Stay tuned
for the dissertation to follow in early 2000.
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Kurt
Vonnegut Index |
All I can say about this page is that this guy likes Vonnegut even
more than I do. This page has every possible link you could ever need to
old Kurt, who (dammit, please make me a visionary on this one, KV!) has
another great book left in him yet! |
Salman Rushdie Page |
Why has nobody done a good page on him yet (hmmmm...project? Stay tuned...).
He's quite simply one of the best writers to come down the pike in many
a year. Between Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Shame, Midnight's Children
and
The
Satanic Verses I'd have a hard time thinking of a more consistent novelist.
I haven't read the new novel but I've heard mostly good things. |
Walker Percy project |
Another UNC project (at least the web-page, not the project itself),
this page is dedicated to the South's best bad Catholic (get over it, already...).
He kicks the Flan-ster's butt ten ways to Tuesday, if you ask me. |
Ole
Miss Faulkner Page |
For my dear friends Erin Hubener and Richard Wright (both Faulknaholics
of the highest order), I present this link to the William Faulkner page,
closest to Yoknapatawpha in spirit and location. |
Literary Kicks
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Mostly about the Beats (without whom I could probably still get through
the day), but a pretty good page about Jack Kerouac, who, despite his legion
of wannabes and poseurs (it's not his fault that he attracts such a goofy
bunch of people who don't know how to read--check out Big Sur if
you wanna know what he thought about his cult of personality) is still
a good writer. Get past the biggies and read Desolation Angels or
Dr.
Sax. |
Life and Works of Herman Melville |
Three Words: Herman Melville crazy
Three More Words: Confidence Man tremendous.
Three Final Words: Pierre freakin' twisted... |
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Archive
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Considering that most people just don't understand how big a freak
hawthorne really was, this site is an absolute goldmine of first-hand evidence
that he wasn't just a tortured descendant of Puritans but also a die-hard
German Romantic looney tune at times. Damn, the man can write tho'. |
