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Fierce Attachments
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The End of The Novel of Love
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Diana of the Crossways

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Diana of the Crossways

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Clover Adams

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Clover Adams

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Kate Chopin

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Kate Chopin

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Jean Rhys

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Jean Rhys

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Ruthless Intimacies

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Willa Cather

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Willa Cather

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Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger

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Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger

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Christina Stead

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Christina Stead

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Grace Paley

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Grace Paley

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Tenderhearted Men

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Tenderhearted Men

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The End of the Novel of Love

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The End of the Novel of Love

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The Men in My Life
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Preface

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2. George Gissing: A Neurotic for Our Times

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George Gissing: A Neurotic for Our Times

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3. H. G. Wells: The Beginning of Wisdom

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H. G. Wells: The Beginning of Wisdom

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4. Loren Eiseley: Excavating the Self

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Loren Eiseley: Excavating the Self

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5. Randall Jarrell: Reading To Save His Life

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Randall Jarrell: Reading To Save His Life

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6. Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the End of the Jew as Metaphor

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Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the End of the Jew as Metaphor

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7. Allen Ginsberg: America’s Holy Fool

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Allen Ginsberg: America’s Holy Fool

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8. Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Richard Ford: Tenderhearted Men

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Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Richard Ford: Tenderhearted Men

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9. James Baldwin and V. S. Naipaul: America Made the Difference

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James Baldwin and V. S. Naipaul: America Made the Difference

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The Romance of American Communism
by Vivian Gornick

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abeyance »
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notable
(noun) a lapse in succession during which there i…
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writ large »
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clear and obvious, in a stark or exaggerated form
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welter »
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(verb) writhe toss / (verb) wallow / (verb) to ri…
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a sense of inner expressiveness
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There’s a certain kind of cultural hero—the artist, the sci…
Papa works hard all day long
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[...] the mere articulation of the words in my mother’s mou…
the nameless, faceless obscurity of the soul
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They took with them on this journey not only their own narr…
an idea of the self beyond the self
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Who, who came out of that world could fail to remember the …
some intensity of illumination that tore at the soul
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What I remember most deeply about the Communists is their p…