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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was an American novelist, essayist, and playwright. His many works include the memoirs Point to Point Navigation and Palimpsest, the novels The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, and Lincoln, and the collection United States: Essays 1952–1992.

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American Plastic: The Matter of Fiction

Writing Degree Zero and Elements of Semiology

by Roland Barthes

S/Z

by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller

The Pleasure of the Text

by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Miller

The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers

by Joe David Bellamy

Come Back, Dr. Caligari

by Donald Barthelme

Snow White

by Donald Barthelme

Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts

by Donald Barthelme

City Life

by Donald Barthelme

Sadness

by Donald Barthelme

Guilty Pleasures

by Donald Barthelme

The Dead Father

by Donald Barthelme

The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love

by Grace Paley

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

by Grace Paley

Omensetter's Luck

by William Gass

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

by William Gass

The Floating Opera

by John Barth

The End of the Road

by John Barth

The Sot-Weed Factor

by John Barth

Giles Goat-Boy

by John Barth

Lost in the Funhouse

by John Barth

Chimera

by John Barth

V.

by Thomas Pynchon

The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

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July 15, 1976 issue

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November 2, 1995 issue

Love on the Hudson

Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley

edited and annotated by Geoffrey C. Ward

May 11, 1995 issue

A Nineteenth-Century Man

The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960–1972

by Edmund Wilson, edited with an introduction by Lewis M. Dabney

November 4, 1993 issue

Maugham’s Half & Half

Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham

by Robert Calder

A Writer's Notebook

by W. Somerset Maugham

The Razor's Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

The Narrow Corner

by W. Somerset Maugham

Cakes and Ale

by W. Somerset Maugham

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February 1, 1990 issue

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