by Zadie Smith
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Brod, Max
Brokeback Mountain (film)
Brooke, Dorothea (char.)
Brownell, John
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV show)
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Camille (film)
Capote, Truman
Capote (film)
“Cares of a Family Man, The” (Kafka)
Carver, Raymond
Casanova (film)
Cash, Johnny
Cassavetes, John
Causabon (char.)
Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov)
Chicago (film)
Chomsky, Noam
“Christabel” (Coleridge)
Christie, Agatha
Christopher Strong (film)
“Church Not Made with Hands” (Wallace)
Citizen Kane (film)
Clooney, George
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film)
“Coeur Simple, Un” (Flaubert)
Colbert, Claudette
Coleman, Ella
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (film)
Congos
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, A (film)
Conneh, Abraham Paye
constructive deconstruction
Conversations with Kafka (Janouch)
Coover, Robert
Coupland, Douglas
Craig, Daniel
Crawford, Joan
cricket
Critchley, Simon
Crosby, Bing
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (film)
Cukor, George
Damon, Matt
Dangerous Liaisons
Date Movie (film)
“Datum Centurio” (Wallace)
Davis, Bette
de Acosta, Mercedes
“Dead Parrot” sketch
“Death of the Author, The” (Barthes)
“Death Is Not the End” (Wallace)
“Death of Ivan Ilyich, The” (Tolstoy)
de Chirico, Giorgio
Defense Ministry, Liberian
Deleuze, Gilles
DeLillo, Don
De Niro, Robert
Denzil (uncle)
“Depressed Person, The” (Wallace)
Derrida, Jacques
De Sica, Vittorio
“Devil Is a Busy Man, The” (Wallace)
DiCaprio, Leonardo
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes
Didion, Joan
Dietrich, Marlene
“Dockery and Son” (Larkin)
Doe, Samuel
Do I Really Have to Communicate with You?
Don Bosco Homes
Doolittle, Eliza (char.)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Dreams from My Father (Obama)
Dust Tracks on a Road (Hurston)
Dylan, Bob
Easy Cliché and Tired Stereotype
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Edward R. Murrow: An American Original (Persico)
Eliot, George
advice given by
experience and
journal of
religious views of
romantic failings of
as writer of ideas
Eliot, T. S.
Eliser d’amore’ (opera)
Ellis, Bret Easton
Elphinstone, Major
Emerson, George (char.)
“Enactor” (char.)
“End and the Beginning, The” (Szymborska)
End of History and the Last Man, The (Fukuyuma)
E. T. (film)
Ethics (Spinoza)
Evans, Marian. See Eliot, George
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Wallace)
Failure to Launch (film)
Faith of My Fathers (McCain)
Fawlty Towers (TV show)
Fellini, Federico
Finnegans Wake (Joyce)
Firestone
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flaubert, Gustave
Flesh and the Devil (film)
Flomo, John
“Forever Overhead” (Wallace)
Forster, E. M.
aesthetics of
concept of audience of
connection as theme of
conversational tone in broadcasts of
homosexuality of
simplicity vs. complexity in
social and political views of
Foucault, Michel
Frankl, Viktor
Freud, Sigmund
Freudianism
Friedberg, Jason
Gaddis, William
Gaghan, Stephen
Gaping Flaws
Garbo, Greta
Gardner, Ava
Garth, Mary (char.)
Genet, Jean
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (film)
Ghanam, Kamal E.
Gift, The (Hyde)
Gift, The (Nabokov)
Gilbert, John
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Good Night, and Good Luck (film)
Goons, The
Grable, Betty
Grand Hotel (film)
Granola Cruncher (char.)
Grant, Cary
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon)
Great Escape, The (film)
Greenblatt, Stephen
Greene, Graham
Grizzly Man (film)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (film)
Gyllenhaal, Jake
Haiti
Hall, Maurice (char.)
Hancock, Tony
Hancock’s Half Hour
Hannigan, Alyson
Hard Times (Dickens)
Hayworth, Rita
Health Ministry, Liberian
Heidegger, Martin
Henry, Thierry
Hepburn, Audrey
Hepburn, Katharine
Oscar nominations of
Herriton, Philip (char.)
Hickock, Dick
Hicks, Amos (char.)
Hidden (film)
Higgins, Henry (char.)
High Society (film)
“High Windows” (Larkin)
History of Western Philosophy (Russell)
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hoffman, Philip Seymour
Hofmann, Michael
Holdaway, Lysbeth
Homer
Honeychurch, Lucy (char.)
Howards End (Forster)
How Not to Dress
Huffman, Felicity
“Human Personality” (Weil)
Hurston, Zora Neal
“I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas” (song)
In Cold Blood (film)
Infinite Jest (Wallace)
International Necronautical Society (INS)
Iraq War
Isherwood, Christopher
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (song)
“It’s Too Late” (song)
Jack, Richard S.
Jackson, Curtis “50 Cent,”
Jackson, Jesse
James, Henry
Janáček, Leoö
Jane Eyre (Brontë)
Janie (char.)
Jealousy (Robbe-Grillet)
Jesenská, Milena
Jews
Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen
“Joint Statement of Inauthenticity, The,”
Jolie, Angelina
Joyce, James
“Judgment, The” (Kafka)
Kael, Pauline
Kafka, Franz
as allegedly self-hating Jew
Brod’s friendship with
brothels visited by
descriptions of
diary of
letters of
organization of day of
and request for burning of work
revision of ideas on
tim
e in
unconventionality of
on women
at work
Kant, Immanuel
Keats, John
Kelly, Grace
Kennedy, Robert
Kiedis, Anthony
King, Carole
King, Martin Luther
“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge)
Kundera, Milan
Kushner, Tony
Ladislaw (char.)
Lakes, The
Lancaster, Burt
Larkin, Philip
Lawrence. H.
League of Nations
Lean, David
Lectures on Literature (Nabokov)
Ledger, Heath
Lee, Harper
Lennon, John
Lermontov, Mikhail
Letter to My Father (Kafka)
Lewes, George
Li, Gong
Liberia
civil war in
education in
ex-combatants in
independence declared by
1980 coup in
poverty in
rubber workers in
UN sex abuse scandal in
Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary
Liberia: The Heart of Darkness
“Literary World, The” (Larkin)
Little Women (film)
Lloyd, David
Locke, John
logotherapy
Lolita (Nabokov)
Lydgate, Dr. (char.)
Lynch, David
Macaulay, Rose
Macaulay, Thomas
McCain, John
MacCarthy, Desmond
McCarthy, Joseph
McCarthy, Tom
Macro Planners
Magic Flute, The (Dickinson)
Magnani, Anna
Malinke tribes
Mamba Point Hotel
Mansfield, Katherine
Mansfield Park (Austen)
Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl)
Marshall, Rob
Martin, Steve
Matrix trilogy
Maugham, Somerset
Maurice (Forster)
Mayer, Louis B.
Melville, Herman
Memoirs of a Geisha (film)
Men in Space (McCarthy)
metafiction
Micro Managers
Middlemarch (Eliot)
authorial attention in
subjectivity of
Milton, John
Miss Brooke (Eliot)
Mittal Steel
Monroe, Marilyn
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (film)
Morecambe and Wise
Moss, Annie
Motion, Andrew
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Munich (film)
Murrow, Edward R.
Nabokov, Vera
Nabokov, Vladimir
artistic style of
authorial privilege and
on Gregor Samsa
on inspiration
on knowledge of reality
on subjectivity
Naipaul. S.
“Natural Woman” (song)
Negative Capability
neorealismo
Netherland (O’Neill)
Neugroschel, Joachim
Newbolt, Henry
New Yorker
New York Times Book Review
Nimba
Ninotchka (film)
“No More Parades” (Amis)
Normandy
nouveau roman
novels:
architecture of
editing of
first twenty pages of
future of
middle of
proofs of
scaffolding of
Obama, Barack
Oblivion (Wallace)
obsessive perspective disorder (OPD)
Ocean’s Eleven (film)
Ocean’s Twelve (film)
“Octet” (Wallace)
Office, The (TV show)
“Old Fools, The” (Larkin)
On Beauty (Smith)
One Day in September (film)
“On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand” (Wallace)
Oscars
Oxfam
Pale King, The (Wallace)
Paltrow, Gwyneth
Parker, Dorothy
Pat and Mike (film)
Paynesville School
Perec, Georges
Père Goriot (Balzac)
Perkins, Maxwell
Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (iek)
Pessoa, Fernando António Nogueia
Philadelphia Story, The (film)
“Philosophical Investigations” (Wittgenstein)
Phoenix, Joaquin
Picasso, Pablo
Pickering, Colonel (char.)
Plath, Sylvia
Plato
Pleasure of the Text, The (Barthes)
Pnin (Nabokov)
Pniniad (Diment)
Pope, Alexander
Portman, Natalie
poshlust
Pretty Woman (film)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
Princess Casamassima, The (James)
Proof (film)
Pygmalion (Shaw)
Pynchon, Thomas
Queen Christina (film)
Queen Victoria (Strachey)
Ramkissoon, Chuck
readers, reading:
as creative
ideal
pleasures of
Rear Window
“Reenactor” (char.)
Remainder (McCarthy)
self-ridiculing humor of
space in
“Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, The” (Coleridge)
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Romance & Cigarettes (film)
Room with a View, A (Forster)
Roth, Philip
Rush, Geoffrey
Sade, Marquis de
Saga of Gosta Berling, The (film)
Samsa, Gregor (char.)
Samways, Phil
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Saving Private Ryan (film)
Scaife, Bert
Scudder, Alex (char.)
See It Now (TV show)
“Self’s the Man” (Larkin)
Selznick, David O.
Sentimental Education, A (Flaubert)
Seraph on the Suwanee (Hurston)
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Shopgirl (film)
Sierra Leone
“Signifying Nothing” (Wallace)
“Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” (Eliot)
Smith, Ben
comedy act of
Smith, Harvey
ashes of
background of
comedy enjoyed by
death of
fatalism and pessimism of
in World War II,
Smith, Luke
Smith, Perry
solipsism
Spielberg, Steven
Spinoza, Baruch
Starks, Joe (char.)
Stewart, Jimmy
Stiller, Mauritz
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (film)
Strong Opinions (Nabokov)
Suddenly, Last Summer (film)
“Suicide as a Sort of Present” (Wallace)
Sunday Telegraph
Sylvia Scarlett (film)
Syriana (film)
S/Z (Barthes)
Szymborska, Wislawa
Tapestry (album)
Taylor, Charles
text:
codes in
indeterminacy of
readerly
writerly
Thalberg, Irving
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
Theron, Charlize
“Think” (Wallace)
Thirlwell, Adam
Tolbert, William
Tolstoy, Leo
“Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” (Wittgenstein)
Traffic (film)
Transamerica (film)
Treadwell, Timothy
Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head, The: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay (Begley)
Trial, The (Kafka)
“Triple Dream, The” (Lermontov)
“Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko” (Wallace)
True Whig Party
Tsotsi (film)
Tubman, William
Turturro, John
Two-Faced Woman (film)
Two Ronnies
Unity Temple
Valentino, Rudolph
Valéry, Paul
Vallon, Annette
van den Broek, Hans (char.)
van den Broek, Rachel (char.)
Van Eyck, Hubert
vdokhnovenie (recapture)
V for Vendetta (film)
Vincy, Fred (char.)
Vincy, Rosamund (char.)
Virgil
Visconti, Luchino
Vitti, Monica
vorstog (initial rapture)
Vyas, Nazrul Ram (char.)
Wade, Aubrey
Walker, Alice
Walk the Line (film)
Wallace, David Foster
commencement speech of
difficulties of
insistence on awareness in work of
Larkin’s poetry and
linguistic specialization in work of
MacArthur won by
parables of
“self” in work of
Wasteland, The (Eliot)
Watanabe, Ken
“Water” (Larkin)
Waugh, Evelyn
Weil, Simone
Wells, H. G.
Werfel, Franz
West Point
“What I Believe” (broadcast)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (Forster)
White Teeth (Smith)
Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys)
Wilcox, Henry (char.)
Wilkerson, Mr.
Willesden
Wilton, Penelope
Witherspoon, Reese
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wodehouse, P. G.
Women and Children Development Association of Liberia (WOCDAL)
Women Love Diamonds (film)
Woods, Vergible “Tea Cake” (char.)
Woolf, Virginia
Wordsworth, William
World Is Not Enough, The (film)
World War II
World Wildlife Fund
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (Boyd)
Wright, Frank Lloyd
writers, writing:
inspiration of
pleasures of
Wyllie, David
Yates, Richard
Yeats, William Butler
Yeoh, Michelle
“Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XI)” (Wallace)
“You’ve Got a Friend” (song)
Zaltzman, Andy
Zellweger, Renée