The Ghosts of Newspaper Row

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William Gaddis’s Disorderly Inferno

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T. S. Eliot, the Art of Poetry No. 1

Diary of a Fire Lookout (2008)

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Percival Everett, the Art of Fiction No. 235 (2017)

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