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DIY MFA Reading List: “Collected Stories and Other Writings” by John Cheever

posted in Blog on September 8, 2011 by David Eric Tomlinson 1 Comment

Cheever channels Kafka and Fitzgerald in his “Collected Stories and Other Writings”.

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DIY MFA Reading List: “Middlemarch” by George Eliot

posted in Blog on August 5, 2011 by David Eric Tomlinson 1 Comment

a Satire on the Current U.S. Economic and Political Debate

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DIY MFA Reading List: “2666” by Roberto Bolaño

posted in Blog on July 29, 2011 by David Eric Tomlinson 1 Comment

Roberto Bolaño explores the intersections of art, power, and murder in his disturbing masterpiece “2666”.

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DIY MFA Reading List: “Libra” by Don DeLillo

posted in Blog on June 30, 2011 by David Eric Tomlinson 1 Comment

Don DeLillo gets to the heart of the Kennedy assassination plot – and the murderous American soul – in his psychological thriller “Libra”.

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DIY MFA Reading List: “Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon

posted in Blog on February 9, 2011 by David Eric Tomlinson 1 Comment

Thomas Pynchon puts most other writers to shame with “Gravity’s Rainbow,” his surreal, mind-melting, madcap romp through post-war Europe.

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DIY MFA Reading List: “Independence Day” by Richard Ford

posted in Blog on January 23, 2011 by David Eric Tomlinson 2 Comments

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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