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Hemingway's reading list for a young writer (1934)
16 items
- 01"The Blue Hotel" - Stephen Crane
- 02"The Open Boat" - Stephen Crane
- 03Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
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the novels David Foster Wallace assigned his students in 1994
four titles confirmed from the Harry Ransom Center's David Foster Wallace archive, from his Fall '94 "Prose Fiction" course at Illinois State. not the full syllabus, just what's been reproduced publicly. start here if you only know the essays.
01
Rock Star by Jackie Collins
the one that surprises people. wallace built the whole course on teaching real analysis on stuff nobody called literary
02
Carrie by Stephen King
03
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
04
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
harris and king get quoted more but this is the pick that shows he'd actually read noir closely, no lore exam required
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