Cheever channels Kafka and Fitzgerald in his “Collected Stories and Other Writings”.
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DIY MFA Reading List: “Middlemarch” by George Eliot
a Satire on the Current U.S. Economic and Political Debate
Continue readingDIY MFA Reading List: “2666” by Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño explores the intersections of art, power, and murder in his disturbing masterpiece “2666”.
Continue readingDIY MFA Reading List: “Libra” by Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo gets to the heart of the Kennedy assassination plot – and the murderous American soul – in his psychological thriller “Libra”.
Continue readingDIY MFA Reading List: “Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon puts most other writers to shame with “Gravity’s Rainbow,” his surreal, mind-melting, madcap romp through post-war Europe.
Continue readingDIY MFA Reading List: “Independence Day” by Richard Ford
A father enlists the Founding Fathers to try and teach his increasingly maladjusted teenage son the true meaning of “independence”, in Richard Ford’s lyrical sequel to “The Sportswriter”.
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