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James Ivory

For helping to unlock for me the puzzle that is France whenever and wherever I’ve gone back to it in the last sixty years.

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Mary-Louise Parker

One of the true delights of growing older, is that every five years or so I can scarcely remember the books I've read so I can reread them with genuine surprise. With the ones like this one that are particularly lengthy, I can practically start again as soon as I have finished it and be enthralled all over again.

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Larry Kramer

The greatest (gay) novel, translated by its great (gay) translator. I much prefer this original English translation to all the subsequent attempts by others to make it into In Search of Lost Time.

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James Ivory

For helping to unlock for me the puzzle that is France whenever and wherever I’ve gone back to it in the last sixty years.

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Gary Shteyngart

It's like Knausgård but with edible food.

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Terrence McNally

This is another book I read in high school when I could not have possibly understood it. I read the whole thing, too, all seven volumes of it. I don’t know who I was trying to impress. At the time, I felt very sophisticated in figuring out that Charlus was gay and the first thing I did when I went to Paris was to go to a bakery and eat a madeleine. I’m still determined to read Proust’s epic depiction of society again. The newest translation sits on my desk but I think I’ll stick with my old Moncrieff. I’ve had a date with it since high school.

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