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the novel ideally is not reducible to the political
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A Gram of Radium
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mistral »
(noun) a strong cold dry northerly wind of southe…
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metempsychosis »
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jalopies »
an old car in a dilapidated condition
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coterminous »
(adjective) having the same or coincident boundar…
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virago »
a domineering, violent, or bad-tempered woman
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With Lucien and boys like him—who will forever remain mere …
Charisma does not originate inside the person called “chari…
I care about fine wine but not about food, and because the …
I peed in the wooded area beyond the open lot. While squatt…
Bruno Lacombe was born in 1937. An elder’s turn toward, his…
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Gone in Sixty Sentences
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I’ll start out Fanny Factoid then say it straight: L.A. is …
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unctuous »
(adjective) fatty oily / (adjective) smooth and g…
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louche »
disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing w…
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I remember how the cane cutters lived: in one-room shacks c…
Dirt shacks, no running water—the way those people lived, i…
In Daddy’s office at company headquarters there was a big m…
The cane cutters were always paid their wages at the end of…
Months before the fire started, Daddy had begun to suspect …
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jalopies »
an old car in a dilapidated condition
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salvo »
a sudden, vigorous, or aggressive act or series o…
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frisson »
(noun) a brief moment of emotional excitement; sh…
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fronds »
the leaf or leaflike part of a palm, fern, or sim…
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torpor »
(noun) a state of mental and motor inactivity wit…
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My uncle Bobby, who hauled dirt for a living, spent his fin…
“I never met a girl who rides Italian motorcycles,” he said…
He wrote a very fine poem in that swell. But with no pencil…
I had moved to New York from Reno just over a year before m…
The phone was ringing. Now there was a huge mangled stain o…
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Girl on a Motorcycle
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We Are Orphans Here
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Earth Angel
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Bad Captains
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Happy Hour
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Tramping in the Byways
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Flying Cars
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Picture-Book Horses
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Not with the Band
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Made to Burn
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Popular Mechanics
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Duras with an S
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Is Prison Necessary?
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Woman in Revolt
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Lipstick Traces
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Bunny
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The Hard Crowd
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think he enjoyed that I stole the shopping bag. He wanted t…
I sometimes think San Francisco is cursed. I mostly think i…
Eva was a professional. One of those girls who always had a…
Even despite his obsession with this girl, he sometimes wan…
[...] She wanted to brag, but she wanted to seem like she w…
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syncline »
(noun) a trough of stratified rock in which the b…
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factotum »
(noun) a person having many diverse activities or…
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He named the place Kuba, which is what the natives—who appe…
“A nothing. A stranger who left me here when I was thirteen…
An executive of the United Fruit Company, a Mr. something S…
Marcel bequeathed his aunt Leonie’s couch to a bordello, an…
Rachel K was leading President Prio, “Handsome,” she called…
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