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Sloane Crosley

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The author of the shrewd and generous memoir, Grief is for People, as well as the novels Cult Classic and The Clasp, and three collections of essays, I Was Told There’d Be Cake (a finalist for the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor), How Did You Get This Number, and Look Alive Out There, Sloane Crosley began her career helping other authors find an audience as a publicist for Vintage Books. "I have the same relationship with writing that I have with New York, which is that I’m just ever so slightly outside," she has said. "I’m invited to the party, but I don’t feel totally comfortable. But you have to be slightly uncomfortable to be able to walk down the street and notice things."
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

I don’t remember the first time I read Goodbye to All That, but I do know that a little part of me thinks of it whenever I turn on the air conditioner. Didion is a big picture writer and a vital writer (On Self-Respect is required reading for any woman, Sentimental Journeys for any person). She’s a national treasure, but for me it’s the image of her taking a messy bite of a peach on the sidewalk that feels like the Didion I know.

9

You’ve Got To Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe

Edited by Rob Hansen and Jim Shepard

This anthology is like one of those fateful 20-something nights where you met a boyfriend, a best friend and got a lead on a job. It introduced me to Jim Shepard and Donald Batheleme. I often think of Amy Tan’s introduction of Molly Giles’ story, Pie Dance. Tan writes that upon hearing Giles read the story, she felt she didn’t yet have what it took to be a writer but she “also knew — as deeply as you can know something about yourself — that it would be worth a lifetime to try.” That’s one of the most genuine things I’ve ever heard a writer say about another writer.

8

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

By now, most everyone knows how revolutionary this book was, paving the way for a new genre of writing. But again, it’s the details that get to me (specifically of Nancy Clutter’s diary). It’s one of the most gruesomely human books I have ever read. Its contributions to literature are immeasurable; the world is better because it was written.
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Eileen Myles
$134.75
Nightwood

Djuna Barnes
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Daniel Pinchbeck
$211.74
Minor Characters

Joyce Johnson
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Larry Kramer
$157.74
Remembrance of Things Past

Marcel Proust
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Michael Cunningham
$163.87
To The Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf
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Alison Bechdel
$184.83
Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh
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Terence Koh
$160.75
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
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John Cameron Mitchell
$147.87
The Subtle Knife

Phillip Pullman
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Gia Coppola
$166.00
The Far Side of the Dollar

Ross Macdonald
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Bret Easton Ellis
$183.00
The Great Gatsby

F.Scott Fitzgerald