Ten Years in the Tub: A Decade Soaking in Great Books
Page 51
Not Even Wrong 57, 62, 64-5
Collins, Wilkie 22, 37, 40, 43, 194
No Name 22, 37, 41, 43-5
comic books 81, 84-5,
Marvel 33
Connelly, Michael 209
The Poet 209, 213
Connolly, Cyril 47-50
Enemies of Promise 47-9
Connolly, Michael 194
Conroy, Frank 32, 34,
Stop-Time 31, 32, 34
Cooper, William 185, 188, 194
Scenes from Life 177, 189
Scenes from Married Life 189
Scenes from Metropolitan Life 189, 190
Scenes from Provincial Life 185, 189-90, 194
Cornwell, Patricia 44, 132
Scarpetta, Kay 88
Corso, Gregory 319
“Marriage” 27
Coupland, Douglas 281
Crowther, Bosley 303
Cummings, e.e. 28
Cumming, Laura 341
A Face to the World 341
Cunningham, Michael 437
Cusk, Rachel 434
Dahlberg, Edward 225
Because I Was Flesh 225
Daily Express 125
Darst, Jeanne 429
Fiction Ruined My Family 429
Davies, Nick 313
Flat Earth News 295
Dawson, Jennifer 251, 256
The Ha-Ha 269, 274
Dean, Louise 159, 383-4
Becoming Strangers 159
Demick, Barbara 339, 379
Nothing to Envy 339, 379, 383-4
Denby, David 63, 89
American Sucker 63
Dexter, Pete 37, 41, 51, 81-2
God’s Pocket 37
The Paperboy 82
Train 51, 81, 82-3
Díaz, Junot 295, 298
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 295, 298
Dickens, Charles 23, 29, 34-5, 36, 44, 57, 68, 69, 70-74, 83-4, 91-92, 95, 100, 118-119, 125, 136, 137, 242, 268, 295, 312, 327, 329, 347, 348-50, 352, 356, 376, 390, 397-401, 415-6, 424
Artful Dodger 350
Barnaby Rudge 34, 71, 129, 158, 295, 398, 399, 306, 347
Bleak House 34, 73, 399-400
David Copperfield 57, 68, 69, 70-4, 100, 129, 185, 268, 306, 347
Dombey and Son 71, 399
Great Expectations 35, 83, 266, 268, 399, 421
Hard Times 92, 348
Little Em’ly 71
Martin Chuzzlewit 399
Mr. Micawber 71, 74
Nicholas Nickleby 399
Oliver Twist 399
Our Mutual Friend 326, 327, 330, 347, 349-50, 351, 399
Peggotty 71
Steerforth 71, 401
Ternan, Ellen 84
The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol. 1 95
The Mystery of Edwin Drood 349
The Old Curiosity Shop 58, 71, 72
Quilp 71, 401
The Pickwick Papers 71, 398, 399
Tommy Traddles 71
Uriah Heep 71, 401
Doctorow, E. L. 197, 205, 206, 208
The March 197, 205, 206, 208
Doggett, Peter 409, 412-3
You Never Give Me Your Money 409, 412
Dornstein, Ken 205-7
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky 205, 207
D’Orso, Michael 265, 268, 425
Eagle Blue 265, 268
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 58, 400
Crime and Punishment 38, 58
Doyle, Roddy 23, 107, 112, 137, 268
A Star Called Henry 112
Barrytown trilogy 112
Oh, Play That Thing 107, 112
Dr. Seuss 32, 141
Green Eggs and Ham 183
Drabble, Margaret 391
The Waterfall 391
Dubner, Stephen J. 205
Dubus III, Andre 409
Dundy, Elaine 271
The Dud Avocado 271
Dunne, John Gregory 302
The Studio 302
Dunthorne, Joe 403, 405-6
Wild Abandon 403, 405, 406
Dylan, Bob 123, 146, 266, 291-2, 302, 306, 318, 398, 417, 445
Chronicles: Volume One 123, 124-6, 146, 306, 318
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters 101, 106, 169, 221
Eagleman, David 379, 380
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives 379, 380, 384
Economist, the 116, 165, 167, 178, 219-20, 311, 328, 344, 361
Edmonds, David 75
Edmonds, David and Eidinow, John
Bobby Fischer Goes to War 75, 79
Edney, Ralph 51
Egan, Jennifer 365
Ehrhart, W. D. 57, 60
Vietnam-Perkasie 57, 60
Eidinow, John 75
Eliot, George 28, 350
Daniel Deronda 124
Ellis, Bret Easton 215
Ephron, Nora 377
I Remember Nothing 377
Erdal, Jennie 177, 187-8
Ghosting: A Double Life 177, 185-7
Esquire 431
Evans, Thomas W. 373
The Education of Ronald Reagan 373
Farrell, J. G. 324
Troubles 324
Faulkner, William 52, 54, 206, 212
The Sound and the Fury 52
Fennelly, Beth Ann 211, 212-3
Tender Hooks 211, 213
“Bite Me” 212
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 25
Ferris, Joshua 191, 195-6
Then We Came to the End 191, 195
Fielding, Helen 102,
Fielding, Leaf 391
To Live Outside the Law 391
Financial Times 389
Fine, Carla 217
No Time to Say Goodbye 217
Finn, Isobel 217
The Very Lazy Ladybird 235
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 380, 419, 424, 431
Flaubert, Gustave 57, 60, 293
Selected Letters 57
Flynn, Gillian 443
Gone Girl 443
Flynn, Nick 129, 135, 139-40, 152
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City 129, 135, 139-40, 152
Ford, Mark 44
Ford, Richard 109
Essential Tales of Chekhov 107, 109
Forester, C. S. 49
Forney, Ellen 287
Forrest, Emma 485, 403, 407-8
Your Voice in My Head 385, 403, 407-8
Forster, E. M. 119, 348, 349, 398
A Passage to India 340
Forster, John 419
Foulds, Adam 333, 339, 345
The Quickening Maze 345
The Broken Word 333, 339, 345
Fountain, Ben 435, 436-7, 440
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk 435, 436, 440
Fowles, John 340
Fox, Paula 31, 35
Desperate Characters 31, 35
Franklin, Tom 212, 213, 429, 432
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter 429, 432
Hell at the Breech 213, 432
Franzen, Jonathan 358
Frayn, Michael 132, 135, 140, 153, 156, 171, 172-3
Spies 153, 156-7
The Trick of It 171-2
Towards the End of the Morning 135, 140
Fréron, Élie-Catherine 166
Freud, Sigmund 126, 223, 323, 419
Frommer, Harvey 333
Frommer, Myrna Katz 333
Frommer, Myrna Katz and Harvey
It Happened in Brooklyn 333
Frost, Robert 54
Fulson, Lowell 27
Funder, Anna 101, 251, 253-4
Stasiland 101, 251, 253
Gaiman, Neil 400
Galloway, Ruth
Clumsy Crab 217
Fidgety Fish 217
Gambotto, Antonella 57
The Eclipse 57
Garner, Dwight 438
Gates, David 72, 74, 394
Jernigan 394
Gawande, Atul 259
Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance 259
Gay, William 268
Gayford, Martin 295
George, Lowell 27
Gilbert, Daniel 415
Stumbling on Happiness 415
Gilman, Priscilla 391, 395
The Anti-Romantic Child 391, 395
Ginsberg, Allen 25
Gladwell, Malcolm
Blink 208
The Tipping Point 208
Gleick, James 37
Gogol, Nikolai 125, 140
Goldstein, Rebecca 423
36 Arguments for the Existence of God 423
Gombrich, Ernst 187, 193
A Little History of the World 187
Gordinier, Jeff 277, 281-2
X Saves the World 277, 281
Gordon, Emily Fox 339, 343-4
Book of Days 339, 343-4
“The Prodigal Returns” 344
Gorky, Maxim 191
“In The Steppe” 110
“Malva” 110
“The Fair” 110
Gosse, Edmund 101, 103-4, 232, 306
Father and Son 101, 103-4, 306
Gourevitch, Philip 141, 143-5
A Cold Case 141, 143-145
Graham, Sheilah 380
graphic novels 81, 201, 230, 263
Graves, Robert 126
Green, Henry 54
Green, John 353
Green, John and David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson 353
Greene, Graham 118, 286, 340, 348
The Power and the Glory 100
Grove, Valerie 305
A Voyage Round John Mortimer 305
Guanda 99
Guardian, the 47, 77, 79, 119, 133, 151, 183, 194, 388
Guralnick, Peter 31, 34, 76-7, 340, 399
Feel Like Going Home 31
Guy, John 409, 413
A Daughter’s Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg 409, 413
Haddon, Mark 63, 64-6
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 63, 64
Hamid, Mohsin 459, 461-2
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia 459, 461-2
Hamilton, Edith 301
The Greek Way 301
Hamilton, Ian 25, 27-9, 39,
Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the Twentieth Century Poets 25, 26, 28
In Search of J. D. Salinger 25, 26, 29
Robert Lowell: A Biography 25, 27
Hamilton, Patrick 60, 64, 66, 95, 99-100, 101, 104-5
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky 60, 95, 99, 105
Hangover Square 63, 66, 99, 100, 104, 105
The Midnight Bell 95, 99 104
The Siege of Pleasure 101, 105
Hampton, Janie 435, 437, 438
The Austerity Olympics 435, 438
Hard News 153, 158
Harding, Paul 327, 333, 337-8
Tinkers 327, 333, 337-8
Hardy, Thomas 28, 101, 231-2, 397
Tess of the d’Urbervilles 232
Harmon, Katharine 153
You Are Here 153
Harris, John 135, 138-9
So Now Who Do We Vote For? 138, 139
Harris, Mark 301-4, 435, 453
Pictures at a Revolution 301, 302-3, 453
Scenes from a Revolution 435
Harris, Robert 25, 127-8, 225, 277, 391
Cicero 223, 228
Fatherland 26, 127, 128
Imperium 223, 225, 228, 280
Pompeii 25, 26, 27, 29-30, 207, 228, 280
The Ghost 277, 280
The Fear Index 391, 393, 395
Harrisson, Tom 309
Hartley, Jenny 415
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens 415
Hartley, L. P. 185, 191-2, 194, 199, 210, 211, 214, 216-7
Eustace and Hilda 185, 191-2, 194, 199, 210, 214, 216-7
The Go-Between 216
The Shrimp and the Anemone 191, 192, 194, 216
The Sixth Heaven 211, 214, 216-7
Haslett, Adam 51
You Are Not a Stranger Here 51
Hastings, Selina 435
Rosamond Lehmann 435
Hawking, Stephen 118
Haynes, Jane 321, 322-4
Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am?: The Journal of a Psychotherapist 321, 322-4
Hazzard, Shirley 324
The Bay of Noon 324
Heilemann, John 360, 361, 362
and Mark Halperin
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime 359, 360-2
Heller, Joseph 25, 30
Catch-22 303, 440
Something Happened 25, 28
Heller, Zoë 25, 477
Notes on a Scandal 31, 35-6, 455
Hemingway, Ernest 52-3, 96, 380, 424
A Farewell to Arms 52
Henderson, Eleanor 385, 390
Ten Thousand Saints 385, 390
Henderson, Emma 385, 390, 423, 428,
Grace Williams Says It Loud 423, 427-8
Hendra, Tony 123, 128
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul 123, 128
Hendrickson, Paul 205
Sons of Mississippi 205
Hermes, Will 443, 451, 452-4, 455
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire 443, 451, 452-4
Heyward, Michael 25
The Ern Malley Affair 25
Highsmith, Patricia 130, 325
Hill, Susan 256
Hines, Barry 141
A Kestrel for a Knave 141
Hiney, Tom 283
The Raymond Chandler Papers 283
Hoagland, Tony 69, 75, 76, 80, 365
Donkey Gospel 75
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty 365
What Narcissism Means to Me 69, 75-6, 80
Hobsbawm, Eric 272
Hollinghurst, Alan 89, 90, 136
The Line of Beauty 87, 136
Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, Inc. 92
Homer
The Odyssey 179-80
Homes, A. M.
This Book Will Save Your Life 251
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 95
Hornby, Gill 153
Jane Austen 153, 155-6
Hornby, Nick
Fever Pitch 103, 222
High Fidelity 31, 241, 369
Hoskyns, Barney 251-2
Across the Great Divide 251-2
Houellebecq, Michel 136, 215
Housman, A. E. 241
A Shropshire Lad 241
Hunter, Rielle 381
Hustvedt, Siri 187, 192
What I Loved 187
Hynes, James 411, 414, 424
Kings of Infinite Space 411
Next 411, 414-15, 424
Incredible, Violet 174
Independent, the 128
Index on Censorship 291
Ingalls, Rachel 361
Mrs. Caliban 379
Iowa Writers’ Workshop 338, 418
Irish Times 91-2
James, Aaron 459-60
Assholes: A Theory 459-61
James, Clive 295
Cultural Amnesia 295
James, Henry 136, 281, 282, 319
The Beast in the Jungle 282
The Portrait of a Lady 230
Jarrell, Randall 28
Jeffers, Robinson 30
Jenkins, Roy 142
Gladstone 142
Jennifer, Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad 365
Jennings, Humphrey 309
Johnson, B. S. 91-92
Albert Angelo 91-92
Johnson, Edgar 73
Jones, Nigel 95, 100, 101, 104
Through a Glass Darkly 95, 101, 104
Joyce, James 42, 52, 91, 92, 230
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 348
Finnegans Wake 29
Stephen Dedalus 180
Kael, Pauline 303, 413-414
Kafka 195, 344
Kahn, Ashley 451
Kind of Blue 451
Kalfus, Ken 265, 271, 274
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country 265, 271, 274-5
Kanfer, S
tefan 365, 379, 380-1, 388
Ball of Fire 365, 379, 380-1, 388
Kann, Kenneth 413
Comrades and Chicken Ranchers 413
Kant, Immanuel 182
Kaplan, Fred 398
Karr, Mary 290
The Liars’ Club 230, 268
Kashner, Sam and Schoenberger, Nancy
Furious Love 385
Kashner, Sam 385
Kazan, Elia 385, 388-9
stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire 389
Keats, John 341
Kellow, Brian 409, 413, 414
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark 413
Kendal, Felicity 429
White Cargo 429
Kennedy, Ludovic 147
Nelson and His Captains 147
Kennedy, William 239, 244
Ironweed 239, 244
Kermode, Frank 81, 83
Not Entitled 81, 83
Keun, Irmgard 295
Child of All Nations 295
King, Carole 429
A Natural Woman 429
King, Owen 197
We’re All in This Together 197
King, Stephen 59, 118
Kipling, Rudyard 42, 177, 183, 232
Traffics and Discoveries 177
Kluger, Steve 205
Last Days of Summer 205,
Knipper, Olga 109
Kolbert, Elizabeth 219, 223, 225, 226-7, 228, 230
Field Notes From a Catastrophe 219, 223, 225, 226-7
Kosztolányi, Dezsö 409, 423
Skylark 409, 423, 487
Krakauer, Jon
Into the Wild 205-6
Kurkov, Andrey 171, 176, 185, 186-7
Death and the Penguin 171, 185, 186-7
Kynaston, David 307, 308-10, 312, 313-6, 339, 347, 435
Austerity Britain 307, 308, 310, 313, 314, 347
Family Britain 326, 357
Lady Chatterley’s Lover 202
trial 302, 334
Lanchester, John 379, 381-3, 394
I.O.U. / Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay 379, 381-3, 384
Lane, Allen 91, 157
Lane, Anthony 443, 451, 455
Lane, Harriet 465, 473, 477
Alys, Always 443, 451, 455-6
Larkin, Philip 177, 178-9, 182, 188, 189, 249, 250, 403
“Church Going” 178
letters 178-9, 188
Letters to Monica 403
Lattin, Don 365
The Harvard Psychedelic Club 365
Lawrence, D. H. 52
Pansies 48
le Carré, John 129
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 129
LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole 69, 75, 76-8, 363
Random Family 69, 75, 76, 77-8, 100, 363
Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird 119
Lee, Jennie 245
My Life with Nye 245
Lee, Laurie 397
Lehane, Dennis 87, 88-90, 327, 329
Mystic River 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 100
Prayers for Rain 87, 88-90
The Given Day 327, 329
Lehrer, Jonah 415, 416-8, 421, 426
Imagine: How Creativity Works 415-8, 426
Lethem, Jonathan 31, 32-4, 35, 71, 153
Motherless Brooklyn 33
The Disappointment Artist 153