Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. ^[1]

A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories

A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories is a 1973 book of short stories written by Polish-American author Isaac Bashevis Singer.

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A Series of Unfortunate Events

A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of thirteen children's novels by Lemony Snicket, the pen name of American author Daniel Handler.

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Aba Daba Honeymoon

"Aba Daba Honeymoon" is a popular song written and published by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan in 1914, known through its chorus, "Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab, Said the chimpie to the monk; Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab, Said the monkey to the chimp," and first recorded in 1914 by the comic duo team of Collins & Harlan.

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Absurdist fiction

Absurdist fiction is a genre of fictional narrative (traditionally, literary fiction), most often in the form of a novel, play, poem, or film, that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value.

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Achieving Our Country

Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America is a book by American philosopher Richard Rorty, in which the author differentiates between what he sees as the two sides of the Left, a cultural Left and a reformist Left.

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Actress in the House

Actress in the House is Joseph McElroy's eighth novel.

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Against the Day

Against the Day is a 2006 historical novel by Thomas Pynchon.

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Air (comics)

Air was an ongoing comic book series published by DC Comics as part of the Vertigo imprint.

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Alan Moore

Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones and From Hell.

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Alex Ross Perry

Alex Ross Perry (born July 14, 1984) is an American film director, screenwriter and actor.

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Alex Shakar

Alex Shakar is an American novelist and short story writer.

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All's Fair in Oven War

"All's Fair in Oven War" is the second episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season.

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Alternate reality game

An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.

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Amanita muscaria

Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, is a basidiomycete mushroom, one of many in the genus Amanita.

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American literature

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States).

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Anarchism and the arts

Anarchism has long had an association with the arts, particularly with visual art, music and literature.

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And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out is the ninth studio album by American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released on February 22, 2000 by record label Matador.

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Andrzej Bart

Andrzej Bart (born 1951 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish novelist, screenwriter and film director.

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Andy Hill (American music producer)

Andy Hill (born 1951) is an American music supervisor, record producer, and music educator.

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Anonymity

Anonymity, adjective "anonymous", is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness".

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Anthony Burgess

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer.

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Anti-romance

An anti-romance, sometimes referred to as a satire, is a type of story characterized by having an apathetic or self-doubting anti-hero cast as the protagonist, who fails in the object of his journey or struggle.

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Antonio Moresco

Antonio Moresco (born 30 October 1947 in Mantua) is an Italian writer.

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Anxiety of influence

Anxiety of Influence is a type of literary criticism established by Harold Bloom in 1973, in his book, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry.

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Aptos, California

Aptos is an unincorporated town in Santa Cruz County, California, United States.

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Arc d'X

Arc d'X (1993), by Steve Erickson, is an Avantpop novel.

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ARPANET

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP.

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Atonement (novel)

Atonement is a 2001 British metafiction novel written by Ian McEwan concerning the understanding of and responding to the need for personal atonement.

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Augustus (Williams novel)

Augustus is an epistolary, historical fiction by John Williams published by Viking Press in 1972.

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Aztlán

Aztlán (from Aztlān) is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.

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Banning, California

Banning is a city in Riverside County, California, United States.

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Barun Roy

Barun Roy (born 4 November 1977) is an Indian author, journalist and blogger.

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Basil Zaharoff

Basil Zaharoff, GCB, GBE (Βασίλειος Zαχαρίας Ζαχάρωφ; October 6, 1849 – November 27, 1936), was a Greek arms dealer and industrialist.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Beat Museum

The Beat Museum is located in San Francisco, California and is dedicated to preserving the memory and works of the Beat Generation.

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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is a novel by Richard Fariña.

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Belshazzar's feast

Belshazzar's feast, or the story of the writing on the wall (chapter 5 in the Book of Daniel) tells how Belshazzar holds a great feast and drinks from the vessels that had been looted in the destruction of the First Temple.

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Benjamin Franklin in popular culture

Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States of America, has appeared in popular culture as a character in novels, films, musicals, comics and video games.

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Benny Profane

Benny Profane were a rock band from Liverpool, England that existed from 1985 until 1990.

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Best science book ever

On 19 October 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named The Periodic Table, by Primo Levi, the best science book ever.

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Big Breasts and Wide Hips

Big Breasts and Wide Hips is a novel by Mo Yan.

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Bilocation

Bilocation, or sometimes multilocation, is an alleged psychic or miraculous ability wherein an individual or object is located (or appears to be located) in two distinct places at the same time.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Black Dragon Society

The, or Amur River Society, was a prominent paramilitary, ultranationalist right-wing group in Japan.

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Black Hole of Calcutta

The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small prison or dungeon in Fort William where troops of Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war for one fatal night on 20 June 1756.

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BlöödHag

BlöödHag was a death metal band from Seattle, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest.

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Bleeding Edge

Bleeding Edge is a novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, published by Penguin Press on September 17, 2013.

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Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff

Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is a satirical novel written by Sean Penn.

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Bogomilism

Bogomilism (Богомилство, Bogumilstvo/Богумилство) was a Christian neo-Gnostic or dualist sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar Peter I in the 10th century.

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Bone char

Bone char (carbo animalis.) is a porous, black, granular material produced by charring animal bones.

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Boogiepop Phantom

is a twelve-episode anime television series produced by Madhouse Studios, based on the Boogiepop light novel series by Kouhei Kadono, particularly that of Boogiepop and Others and Boogiepop At Dawn.

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Boonville, California

Boonville (formerly The Corners and Kendall's City) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mendocino County, California, United States.

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Borbetomagus

Borbetomagus are a free improvisation/noise music group.

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Botticelli (game)

Botticelli is a guessing game which requires the players to have a good knowledge of biographical details of famous people.

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Brennschluss

Brennschluss (a loanword, from the German Brennschluss) is either the cessation of fuel burning in a rocket or the time that the burning ceases: the cessation may result from the consumption of the propellants, from deliberate shutoff, or from some other cause.

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Brocken

The Brocken, also sometimes referred to as the Blocksberg, is the highest peak of the Harz mountain range and also the highest peak of Northern Germany; it is located near Schierke in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt between the rivers Weser and Elbe.

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Bruno Faidutti

Bruno Faidutti (born 23 October 1961) is a historian and sociologist, living in France, who is best known as an author of board games.

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Byron (name)

Byron is an English-derived name; its use as a given name derives from the surname.

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Candide

Candide, ou l'Optimisme, is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.

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Carlo Emilio Gadda

Carlo Emilio Gadda (November 14, 1893 – May 21, 1973) was an Italian writer and poet.

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Casanova (comics)

Casanova is an American creator-owned comic book series by writer Matt Fraction and artists Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon.

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Cassiber

Cassiber were a German avant-rock group founded in 1982 by German composer and saxophonist Alfred Harth, German composer, music-theatre director and keyboardist Heiner Goebbels, English drummer Chris Cutler from Henry Cow and German guitarist Christoph Anders.

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Cavalier (magazine)

Cavalier is an American magazine that was launched by Fawcett Publications in 1952 and has continued for decades, eventually evolving into a Playboy-style men's magazine.

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Charles Mason

Charles Mason (April 1728. Retrieved 6 July 201525 October 1786) was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason–Dixon line, which came to mark the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania (1764–1768).

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Chastain (surname)

Chastain is a French surname.

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Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Chicago Film Critics Association.

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Chicago Review

Chicago Review is a literary magazine founded in 1946 and published quarterly in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago.

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Chimera (Barth novel)

Chimera is a 1972 fantasy novel written by American writer John Barth, composed of three loosely connected novellas.

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Christophe Claro

Christophe Claro, better known as Claro (born 14 May 1962, in Paris), is a French writer and translator.

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Christopher Gudgeon

Christopher Gudgeon (born 1959) is an author, poet and screenwriter.

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Chronophobia

Chronophobia is anxiety over the passage of time.

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Conceptual writing

Conceptual writing (often used interchangeably with conceptual poetry) is a term which describes a range of experimental texts based on techniques such as appropriation (the "literary ready-made"), texts which may be reduced to a set of procedures, a generative instruction or constraint, a "concept" which precedes and is considered more important than the resulting text(s).

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Conspiracy fiction

The conspiracy thriller (or paranoid thriller) is a subgenre of thriller fiction.

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Constance Rourke

Constance Mayfield Rourke (November 14, 1885 – March 29, 1941) was an American author and educator.

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Coonskin cap

A coonskin cap is a hat fashioned from the skin and fur of a raccoon.

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Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake

The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper's Hill, near Gloucester in England.

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Coprophagia

Coprophagia or coprophagy is the consumption of feces.

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Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Cosmic bomb (phrase)

"Cosmic bomb" was another name for the atomic bomb.

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Cow Country (novel)

Cow Country (2015) is a novel written under the pseudonym Adrian Jones Pearson and published by Cow Eye Press.

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Crossover (fiction)

A crossover is the placement of two or more otherwise discrete fictional characters, settings, or universes into the context of a single story.

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Cul de Sac (comic strip)

Cul de Sac is an American comic strip created by Richard Thompson and distributed by Universal Press Syndicate to 150 worldwide newspapers.

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Culture of New York City

The culture of New York City is reflected in its size and ethnic diversity.

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Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech" featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

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D. J. Waldie

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Daffy's Elixir

Daffy's Elixir (also sometimes known as Daffey's Elixir or Daffye's Elixir) is a name that has been used by several patent medicines over the years.

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Daniel O'Mahony

Daniel O'Mahony (born 24 July 1973) is a half-British half-Irish author, born in Croydon.

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Dark Matter (Zeh novel)

Dark Matter (Schilf) is a 2007 novel by the German writer Juli Zeh.

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David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and university instructor in the disciplines of English and creative writing.

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David Shetzline

David W. Shetzline (born 1936, Yonkers, New York) is an American author residing in Oakridge, Oregon.

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David Woodard

David Woodard (born April 6, 1964) is an American writer and conductor.

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Days Between Stations (novel)

Days Between Stations is the first novel by Steve Erickson.

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Dead man's hand in popular culture

The dead man's hand, a legendary "cursed" poker hand usually depicted as consisting of the ace of spades, ace of clubs, eight of spades and eight of clubs with an undefined fifth card, has appeared or been referenced in numerous works of popular culture.

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Diatribe of a Mad Housewife

"Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" is the tenth episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season.

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Digesting Duck

The Canard Digérateur, or Digesting Duck, was an automaton in the form of a duck, created by Jacques de Vaucanson and unveiled on May 30, 1739 in France.

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Dimitris Lyacos

Dimitris Lyacos (Δημήτρης Λυάκος; born October 19, 1966) is a contemporary Greek poet and playwright.

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Dog Soldiers (novel)

Dog Soldiers is a novel by Robert Stone, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1974.

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Don DeLillo

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist.

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Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction.

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Donald Wayne Foster

Donald Wayne Foster (born 1950) is a professor of English at Vassar College in New York.

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Douglas Anthony Cooper

Douglas Anthony Cooper is a Canadian writer.

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Duino Elegies

The Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) are a collection of ten elegies written by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926).

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Dustin Long (writer)

Dustin Long is an American novelist and author.

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Dying Inside

Dying Inside is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg.

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East Norwich, New York

East Norwich is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Edward Mendelson

Edward Mendelson (born 1946) is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.

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Ege Bamyasi

Ege Bamyasi is the fourth studio album by German krautrock band Can which was originally released as an LP in 1972 by United Artists.

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Eleanor Lerman

Eleanor Lerman (born 1952) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

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Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist.

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Elsie Dinsmore

Elsie Dinsmore is a children's book series written by Martha Finley (1828–1909) between 1867 and 1905.

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Elvis Hitler

Elvis Hitler is an American psychobilly/hellbilly band from Detroit, Michigan.

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Emily Barton

Emily Barton (born 1969) is an American novelist, critic, and academic.

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English literature

This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States.

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Entropy (disambiguation)

Additional relevant articles may be found in the following categories.

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Enzian

The Enzian (named for a genus of mountain flower, in English the Gentian) was a German WWII surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile that was the first to use a radio controlled guidance system.

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Epoch (American magazine)

Epoch is a triannual American literary magazine founded in 1947 and published by Cornell University.

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Epworth League

Initially founded in 1889, the Epworth League is a Methodist young adult association for individuals from 18 to 35.

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Eros and Civilization

Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (1955; second edition, 1966) is a book by the German philosopher and social critic Herbert Marcuse, in which the author proposes a non-repressive society, attempts a synthesis of the theories of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud, and explores the potential of collective memory to be a source of disobedience and revolt and point the way to an alternative future.

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Esalen Institute

The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education.

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Etaoin shrdlu

Etaoin shrdlu is a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print in the days of "hot type" publishing because of a custom of type-casting machine operators.

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Eternal September

Eternal September or the September that never ended is Usenet slang for a period beginning in September 1993, the month that Internet service provider America Online began offering Usenet access to its many users, overwhelming the existing culture for online forums.

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Evan Dara

Evan Dara is an American novelist.

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Experimental literature

Experimental literature refers to written work—usually fiction or poetry—that emphasizes innovation, most especially in technique.

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Exploding cigar

An exploding cigar is a variety of cigar that explodes shortly after being lit.

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Expressionism

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century.

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February 1973

The following events occurred in February 1973.

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Feuilleton

A feuilleton (a diminutive of feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the latest fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles.

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Fiction based on World War II

Many types of fiction have involved events in the World War II time period.

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Five Towns

The Five Towns is an informal grouping of villages and hamlets in Nassau County, United States on the South Shore of western Long Island adjoining the border with Queens County in New York City.

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Flight of the Knife

Flight of the Knife is the second album from the Brooklyn area indie rock artist Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears.

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Frank Witzel

Frank Witzel (born 1955) is a German writer, illustrator, radio presenter and musician.

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Freedom of Choice (album)

Freedom of Choice is the third studio album by the American new wave band Devo.

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Frenesi

"Frenesí" is a musical piece originally composed by Alberto Domínguez for the marimba, and adapted as a jazz standard by Leonard Whitcup and others.

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Frug (dance)

The Frug (or "froog") was a dance craze from the mid-1960s, which included vigorous dance to pop music.

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Galandronome

The galandronome is an obscure military bassoon tuned in B♭.

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Gay literature

Gay literature is a collective term for literature produced by or for the LGBT community which involves characters, plot lines, and/or themes portraying male homosexual behavior.

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Genichiro Takahashi

is a Japanese novelist.

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George Guidall

George Guidall (born June 7, 1938) is a prolific audiobook narrator and theatre actor.

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Gideon Toury

Gideon Toury (גדעון טורי) (6 June 1942 – 4 October 2016) was an Israeli translation scholar and professor of Poetics, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Tel Aviv University, where he held the M. Bernstein Chair of Translation Theory.

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Giles Goat-Boy

Giles Goat-Boy (1966) is the fourth novel by American writer John Barth.

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Glen Cove, New York

Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island.

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Going Blind (The Go-Betweens song)

"Going Blind" is the first single by Australian indie group The Go-Betweens taken from their seventh studio album, The Friends of Rachel Worth.

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Grand Champeen

Grand Champeen is an Austin, Texas-based rock band.

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Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon.

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Gravity's Rainbow (album)

Gravity's Rainbow is the ninth studio album and tenth album overall by American singer Pat Benatar.

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Gravity's Rainbow (song)

"Gravity's Rainbow" is a song by British act Klaxons which appears on their album Myths of the Near Future.

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Great American Novel

The idea of the Great American Novel is the concept of a novel of high literary merit that shows the culture of the United States at a specific time in the country's history.

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Great Books of the 20th Century

Great Books of the 20th Century is a series of twenty novels published by Penguin Books.

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H. L. (Bud) Goodall Jr.

Harold Lloyd Goodall Jr. (September 8, 1952 – August 24, 2012) was an American scholar of human communication and a writer of narrative ethnography.

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Halifax Explosion in popular culture

The Halifax Explosion has frequently been the subject of works of popular culture.

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Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.

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Harper Perennial

Harper Perennial is a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins Publishers.

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Harry Mathews

Harry Mathews (February 14, 1930 – January 25, 2017) was an American writer.

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Harry Stephen Keeler

Harry Stephen Keeler (November 3, 1890 – January 22, 1967) was a prolific but little-known American author of mysteries and science fiction.

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Hawksmoor (novel)

Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ackroyd.

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Henry Holt and Company

Henry Holt and Company is an American book publishing company based in New York City.

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Herero and Namaqua genocide

The Herero and Nama genocide was a campaign of racial extermination and collective punishment that the German Empire undertook in German South West Africa (now Namibia) against the Ovaherero and the Nama.

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Herero people

The Herero are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa.

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Herero Wars

The Herero Wars were a series of colonial wars between the German Empire and the Herero people of German South West Africa (present-day Namibia).

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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Historiographic metafiction

Historiographic metafiction is a term coined by Canadian literary theorist Linda Hutcheon in the late 1980s.

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Hitler Has Only Got One Ball

"Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" is a British song that mocks Nazi leaders using blue comedy in reference to their testicles.

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Hollywood Black Friday

Hollywood Black Friday or "Bloody Friday" is the name given, in the history of organized labor in the United States, to October 5, 1945.

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Hotchkiss

Hotchkiss may refer to.

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HP Tinker

HP Tinker (born 24 May 1969) is a Manchester-based short story writer of comic avant garde fiction.

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Huarache (shoe)

Huaraches (derived from Warachi, in Purépecha, indigenous language, singular huarache) are a type of Mexican sandal, Pre-Columbian in origin.

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Hysterical realism

Hysterical realism, also called recherché postmodernism, is a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.

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I Walked with a Zombie

I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur.

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Ian

Ian or Iain is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin, ultimately derived from Hebrew Yohanan and corresponding to English John.

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Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter.

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Icelander (novel)

Icelander is the debut novel of Dustin Long.

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IG Farben

IG Farben was a German chemical and pharmaceutical industry conglomerate.

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Ignorance

Ignorance is a lack of knowledge.

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Impolex

Impolex is a 2009 American film directed by Alex Ross Perry.

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Index (typography)

The symbol ☞ is a punctuation mark, called an index, manicule (from the Latin root manicula, meaning "little hand") or fist.

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Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace.

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Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice is a novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, originally published in August 2009.

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Inherent Vice (film)

Inherent Vice is a 2014 American neo-noir comedy-drama crime film and the seventh feature film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon.

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Irving Malin

Irving Malin (March 18, 1934 – December 3, 2014) was an American literary critic.

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Irwin Corey

"Professor" Irwin Corey (July 29, 1914 – February 6, 2017) was an American stand-up comic, film actor and activist, often billed as The World's Foremost Authority.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 21, 1902 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

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Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (a; 27 February 1936) was a Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning.

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J. B. Lippincott & Co.

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Jack Green (critic)

jack green (the name was spelled with lower-case letters) is the pseudonym of Christopher Carlisle Reid (born 1928), an American literary critic who was a great defender of the work of William Gaddis.

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Jay Caspian Kang

Jay Caspian Kang is an American writer and editor.

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Jeremiah Dixon

Jeremiah Dixon FRS (27 July 1733 – 22 January 1779) was an English surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line.

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Jerome Charyn

Jerome Charyn (born May 13, 1937) is an American author.

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Jim Dodge

Jim Dodge (born 1945) is an American novelist and poet whose works combine themes of folklore and fantasy, set in a timeless present.

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Jim Knipfel

Jim Knipfel (pronounced Kah-nipfel; born June 2, 1965) is an American novelist, autobiographer, and journalist.

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Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquín Rafael Phoenix (né Bottom; born October 28, 1974) is an American actor, producer, and activist.

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Joaquin Phoenix filmography

Joaquin Phoenix is an American actor who started his career performing as a child on television.

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John Bird (astronomer)

John Bird (1709–1776), the mathematical instrument maker, was born at Bishop Auckland.

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John Cogswell

John Cogswell (1592-1669) was a leading figure and large landowner in the early history of Ipswich, Massachusetts and a deputy for the General Court of Massachusetts.

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John Crowley

John Crowley (born December 1, 1942) is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction.

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John Garfield

John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle, March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters.

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John Hawkes (novelist)

John Hawkes, born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr. (August 17, 1925 – May 15, 1998), was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended some traditional constraints of narrative fiction.

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John Kennedy Toole

John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel A Confederacy of Dunces won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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John Leonard (critic)

John Leonard (February 25, 1939 – November 5, 2008) was an American literary, television, film, and cultural critic.

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John Swartzwelder

John Joseph Swartzwelder, Jr. (born February 8, 1949) is an American comedy writer and novelist, best known for his work on the animated television series The Simpsons.

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John Twelve Hawks

John Twelve Hawks (pseudonym) is the author of the 2005 dystopian novel The Traveler and its sequels, The Dark River and The Golden City, collectively comprising the Fourth Realm Trilogy.

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Johnny Staccato

Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series starring John Cassavetes which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is the debut novel by British writer Susanna Clarke.

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Jorn Barger

Jorn Barger (born 1953) is an American blogger, best known as editor of Robot Wisdom, an influential early weblog.

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.

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Joseph McElroy

Joseph Prince McElroy (born August 21, 1930) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

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Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris (born 1974) is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel Then We Came to the End.

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Josiah Willard Gibbs

Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

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Jules Siegel

Jules Siegel (October 21, 1935 – November 17, 2012) was a writer and graphic designer whose work has appeared over the years in Playboy, Best American Short Stories, Library of America's Writing Los Angeles, and many other publications.

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Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar; (August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984) was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Kennelly–Heaviside layer

The Kennelly–Heaviside layer, named after Arthur E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside, also known as the E region or simply the Heaviside layer, is a layer of ionised gas occurring between roughly 90–150 km (56–93 mi) above the ground — one of several layers in the Earth's ionosphere.

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Kenosha Pass

Kenosha Pass, elevation, is a high mountain pass located in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States.

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Kermit Moyer

Kermit Moyer (born August 3, 1943) is an American author, best known for Tumbling, his collection of short stories.

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Key Lime Pie (album)

Key Lime Pie is a 1989 album by Camper Van Beethoven (CVB).

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Kilroy was here

Kilroy was here is an American popular culture expression that became popular during World War II; it is typically seen in graffiti.

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King Kong in popular culture

King Kong is one of the best-known figures in cinema history.

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Kirkpatrick Sale

Kirkpatrick Sale (born June 27, 1937) is an independent scholar and author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology.

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Kitschies

The Kitschies are British literary prizes presented annually for "the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic." Works that were published in the United Kingdom in the year of the award are eligible.

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Kris Saknussemm

Kris Saknussemm is a cult novelist and multimedia artist.

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Kyle Muntz

Kyle Muntz (born 1990) is an American novelist.

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Laban Coblentz

Laban L. Coblentz (born July 21, 1961) is a writer, educator, science policy adviser, international civil servant, and entrepreneur.

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Lady of Spain

"Lady of Spain" is a popular song written in 1931 by Tolchard Evans with lyrics by Erell Reaves.

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Lambton Worm

The Lambton Worm is a legend from County Durham in North East England in the UK.

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Late capitalism

"Late capitalism" is a term used by Marxists to refer to capitalism from about 1945 onwards, with the implication that it is due to come to an end.

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Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman.

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Law firms in fiction

Law firms are a common element of fictional depictions of legal practice.

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Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.

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Le Déserteur

"Le déserteur" (The Deserter) is a famous anti-war song written by French singer Boris Vian and released on May 7, 1954 during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

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Leadville, Colorado

Leadville is the statutory city that is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Lake County, Colorado, United States.

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Lee Konstantinou

Lee Konstantinou (born December 29, 1978) is an assistant professor of English Literature at University of Maryland, College Park.

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Lemuria in popular culture

Lemuria is the name of a hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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Liana Burgess

Liana Burgess (born Liliana Macellari, September 25, 1929 – December 3, 2007) was an Italian translator and literary agent who was the second wife of English writer Anthony Burgess.

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List of 20th-century writers

This is a partial list of 20th-century writers.

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List of American films of 2014

This is a list of American films released in 2014.

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List of American novelists

This is a list of novelists from the United States, listed with titles of a major work for each.

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List of Americans of English descent

This is a list of notable Americans of English descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

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List of authors by name: P

List of authors by name: A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z.

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List of book-based war films (1927–45 wars)

A list of films that are based on war books.

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List of books about the September 11 attacks

This is an incomplete list of books about the September 11 attacks.

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List of books and publications related to the hippie subculture

This is a list of books and publications related to the hippie subculture.

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List of books set in New York City

This article provides an incomplete list of fiction books set in New York City.

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List of Cornell University alumni

This list of Cornell University alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York.

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List of cultural references to the September 11 attacks

This list of cultural references to the September 11 attacks and to the post-9/11 sociopolitical climate, includes works of art, music, books, poetry, comics, theater, film, and television.

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List of cyberpunk works

This is a list of works classified as cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction.

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List of descendants of William Bradford (Plymouth governor)

William Bradford (1590–1657) was the governor of Plymouth Colony (now part of Massachusetts) for most of his life.

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List of dystopian literature

This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature.

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List of episodes in Against the Day

The following is a list of episodes in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day.

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List of episodes in Mason & Dixon

The following is a list of episodes in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.

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List of fictional badgers

This is a list of fictional badgers.

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List of fictional books

A fictional book is a non-existent book created specifically for (i.e. within) a work of fiction.

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List of fictional countries

This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.

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List of fictional dogs in prose and poetry

This is a list of fictional dogs in prose and poetry and is a subsidiary to the list of fictional dogs.

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List of fictional ducks

This list of fictional ducks is subsidiary to the list of fictional birds.

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List of fictional horses

This is a list of horses and ponies in fictional subjects, excluding hybrid fantasy creatures such as centaurs and unicorns; their cousins, donkeys and zebras; and cross-breed mules and zebroids.

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List of fictional medicines and drugs

The use of fictional medicine and drugs has history in both fiction (usually fantasy or science fiction) and the real world.

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List of fictional music groups

This is a list of notable fictional musical groups.

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List of fictional private investigators

This is a partial list of fictional private investigators — also known as private eyes or PIs — who have appeared in various works of literature, film, television, and games.

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List of fictional robots and androids

Robots and androids have frequently been depicted or described in works of fiction.

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List of historical acts of tax resistance

Tax resistance has probably existed ever since rulers began imposing taxes on their subjects.

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List of historical fiction by time period

This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable historical works divided by time period.

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List of historical novelists

This list provides a list of novelists who have written historical novels.

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List of historical novels

This list outlines notable historical novels by the current geo-political boundaries of countries for the historical location in which most of the novel takes place.

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List of literary movements

This is a list of modern literary movements: that is, movements after the Renaissance.

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List of Long Islanders

This is a list of notable people either born in, from or connected to Long Island.

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List of people from Manhattan Beach, California

, whether born, raised, or residing.

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List of people from New York (state)

The following is a list of prominent people who were born in/lived in or around the U.S. state of New York, or for whom New York is a significant part of their identity.

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List of postmodern critics

This is a list of postmodern literary critics.

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List of postmodern novels

Some well known postmodern novels in chronological order.

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List of postmodern writers

This is a list of postmodern authors.

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List of recluses

This is a list of notable recluses.

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List of secret societies in popular culture

Secret societies appear in many works of fiction.

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List of songs that retell a work of literature

This is a list of songs that retell, in whole or in part, a work of literature.

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List of The Simpsons guest stars

In addition to the show's regular cast of voice actors, celebrity guest stars have been a staple of The Simpsons, an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company, since its first season.

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List of titles of works taken from Shakespeare

The following is a partially complete list of titles of works taken from Shakespearean phrases.

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List of United States Navy people

This page contains a list of notable officers and sailors of the U.S. Navy.

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List of United States political families (P)

The following is an alphabetical list of political families in the United States whose last name begins with P.

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List of winners of the National Book Award

These authors and books have won the annual National Book Awards, awarded to American authors by the National Book Foundation based in the United States.

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List of works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights

The Middle Eastern story collection One Thousand and One Nights has had a deep influence on culture around the world.

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Literature in the 1970s

Fiction in the '70s brought a return of old-fashioned storytelling, especially with Erich Segal's Love Story.

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Little Misunderstandings of No Importance

Little Misunderstandings of No Importance (Piccoli equivoci senza importanza) is a 1985 short story collection by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi.

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Locos

Locos: A Comedy of Gestures is the first novel of Spanish-born American writer Felipe Alfau (1902–1999), written in 1928 and published in 1936.

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Lodger (Finnish band)

Lodger is a Finnish rock band, formed by Teemu Merilä in 2002.

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London in fiction

Many notable works of fiction are set in London, the capital city of England, and the United Kingdom.

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Lori Baker

Lori Baker (born 1962) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Lotion (band)

Lotion was a Manhattan indie rock band formed in 1991 by brothers Bill and Jim Ferguson (bass guitar and guitar respectively), drummer Rob Youngberg, and vocalist/guitarist Tony Zajkowski.

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Louis H. Mackey

Louis H. Mackey (September 24, 1926 – March 25, 2004) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Love Brewster

Elder Love Brewster (born ca. 1611) was an early American settler, the son of Elder William Brewster and his wife, Mary Brewster.

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Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) is a novel by Colombian Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez.

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Luc Tuymans

Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is a Belgian artist who lives and works in Antwerp.

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Ludlow Massacre

The Ludlow Massacre was a labor conflict: the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attacked a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914, with the National Guard using machine guns to fire into the colony.

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M. H. Abrams

Meyer Howard "Mike" Abrams (July 23, 1912 – April 21, 2015), usually cited as M. H. Abrams, was an American literary critic, known for works on romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp.

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Ma (negative space)

Ma (間) is a Japanese word which can be roughly translated as "gap", "space", "pause" or "the space between two structural parts." The spatial concept is experienced progressively through intervals of spatial designation.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.

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Magnus Mills

Magnus Mills is an English novelist and short story writer.

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Manfred

Manfred: A dramatic poem is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron.

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Manifestations of postmodernism

This article has examples of the influence of postmodernism on various fields.

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Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut (L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut) is a novel by French author Abbé Prévost.

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Marquis de Sade in popular culture

There have been many and varied references to the Marquis de Sade in popular culture, including fictional works, biographies and more minor references.

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Martín Fierro

Martín Fierro, also known as El Gaucho Martín Fierro, is a 2,316-line epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández.

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Mason & Dixon

Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by U.S. author Thomas Pynchon published in 1997.

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Mason–Dixon line

The Mason–Dixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason's and Dixon's line, was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in Colonial America.

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Maximalism

In the arts, maximalism, a reaction against minimalism, is an esthetic of excess and redundancy.

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Maxwell's demon

In the philosophy of thermal and statistical physics, Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment created by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in which he suggested how the second law of thermodynamics might hypothetically be violated.

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May 1937

The following events occurred in May 1937.

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May 8

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McClintic Sphere

McClintic Sphere is a fictional character in the novel V. by Thomas Pynchon.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 152001–153000

299 | 152299 Vanautgaerden || || Jan Vanautgaerden (born 1978), a passionate Belgian amateur astronomer.

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Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604.

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Media in New York City

The media of New York City are internationally influential and include some of the most important newspapers, largest publishing houses, biggest record companies, and most prolific television studios in the world.

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Menippean satire

The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, which has a length and structure similar to a novel and is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities.

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Metafiction

Metafiction is a form of literature that emphasizes its own constructedness in a way that continually reminds the reader to be aware that they are reading or viewing a fictional work.

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Metahistorical romance

Metahistorical Romance is a term describing postmodern historical fiction, defined by Amy J. Elias in Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction. Elias defines metahistorical romance as a form of historical fiction continuing the legacy of historical romance inaugurated by Sir Walter Scott but also having ties to contemporary postmodern historiography.

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Metempsychosis

Metempsychosis (μετεμψύχωσις) is a philosophical term in the Greek language referring to transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.

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Michel Doury

Michel Doury (1931–2007) was a French writer and translator (in particular Thomas Pynchon, Raymond Chandler, Richard Brautigan and Leonard Cohen).

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Mircea Cărtărescu

Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1 June 1956) is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist.

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Mirosław Nahacz

Mirosław Nahacz was a Polish writer and screen writer, born on 9 September 1984 in Gorlice.

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Mister Heartbreak

Mister Heartbreak is the second album by avant-garde artist, singer and composer Laurie Anderson, released in 1984.

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Mitch Berman

Mitch Berman (born May 29, 1956) is an American fiction writer known for his imaginative range, exploration of characters beyond the margins of society, lush prose style and dark humor.

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Montauk Project

The Montauk Project is an alleged series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island, for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic research including time travel.

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Mopery

Mopery is a vague, informal name for minor offenses.

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Mr. Difficult

"Mr.

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Mu (lost continent)

Mu is the name of a suggested lost continent whose concept and name were proposed by 19th-century traveler and writer Augustus Le Plongeon, who claimed that several ancient civilizations, such as those of Egypt and Mesoamerica, were created by refugees from Mu—which he located in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Mumbo Jumbo (novel)

Mumbo Jumbo is a 1972 novel by African-American author Ishmael Reed.

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Musicianship of Brian Wilson

The songwriting of American musician Brian Wilson, co-founder and multi-tasking leader of the Beach Boys, is widely considered to be among the most innovative and significant of the late 20th century.

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Nassau County, New York

Nassau County or is a suburban county comprising much of western Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.

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National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is an annual film award given (since 2003) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.

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National Book Award for Fiction

The National Book Award for Fiction is one of four annual National Book Awards, which recognize outstanding literary work by United States citizens.

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Neal Stephenson

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction.

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Nebula Awards Showcase 2000

Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 is an anthology of award winning science fiction short works edited by Gregory Benford.

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Neoism

Neoism is a parodistic -ism.

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Netmage

Netmage is an international festival dedicated to electronic art curated by Xing and produced annually—in the city of Bologna—as a multidisciplinary program of works, investigating and promoting contemporary audiovisual research.

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Nevil Maskelyne

The Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne DD FRS FRSE (6 October 1732 – 9 February 1811) was the fifth British Astronomer Royal.

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New World Writing

New World Writing was a paperback magazine, a literary anthology series published by New American Library's Mentor imprint from 1951 until 1960, then J. B. Lippincott & Co.'s Keystone from volume/issue 16 (1960) to the last volume, 22, in 1964.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.

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Ninety-nine Novels

Anthony Burgess's book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice (Allison & Busby, 1984) covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Nobody's Cool

Nobody's Cool is a studio album by the rock band Lotion.

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Nog (novel)

Nog is a psychedelic novel by Rudolph Wurlitzer published in 1968.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Oakley Hall

Oakley Maxwell Hall (July 1, 1920 – May 12, 2008) was an American novelist.

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Olivetti Lettera 22

The Olivetti Lettera 22 is a portable mechanical typewriter designed by Marcello Nizzoli in 1949 or, according to the company's current owner Telecom Italia, 1950.

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Omega Minor

Omega Minor is a 2004 novel by the Belgian writer Paul Verhaeghen.

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Omodeo Tasso

Omodeo or Amadeo Tasso was the late-13th century Italian patriarch of the Thurn und Taxis dynasty generally credited with initiating the first modern postal service as the administrators first of the Imperial Post and later their own postal network.

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On the Road

On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States.

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Orpheus and Eurydice

The ancient legend of Orpheus and Eurydice concerns the fateful love of Orpheus of Thrace, son of Apollo and the muse, for the beautiful Eurydice (from Eurudike, "she whose justice extends widely").

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Out 1

Out 1, also referred to as Out 1: Noli Me Tangere, is a 1971 film directed by Jacques Rivette.

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Oyster Bay (hamlet), New York

Oyster Bay is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) on the North Shore of Long Island in Nassau County in the state of New York, United States.

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Oyster Bay (town), New York

The Town of Oyster Bay is the easternmost of the three towns which make up Nassau County, New York, in the United States.

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Oyster Bay High School

Oyster Bay High School is a high school located in Oyster Bay, New York.

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Paranoid fiction

Paranoid fiction is a term sometimes used to describe works of literature that explore the subjective nature of reality and how it can be manipulated by forces in power.

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Pastoralia (short story collection)

Pastoralia is short story writer George Saunders’s second full length short story collection, published in 2000.

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Patrick Blackett

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948.

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Pattern Recognition (novel)

Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003.

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Paul Cook (author)

Paul Cook is an American science fiction writer, classical music critic.

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Paul Murray (author)

Paul Murray (born 1975) is an Irish novelist, the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes, Skippy Dies and The Mark and the Void.

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Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also referred to by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker.

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Paul Thomas Anderson filmography

American director, screenwriter, and producer Paul Thomas Anderson has directed eight feature-length films, five short films, sixteen music videos, one documentary, one television episode as a guest segment director, and one theatrical play.

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Paxton Boys

The Paxton Boys were frontiersmen of Scots-Irish origin from along the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania who formed a vigilante group to retaliate in 1763 against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion.

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Perfect Dark

Perfect Dark is a first-person shooter developed by Rare and released for the Nintendo 64 video game console in 2000.

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Peter Yarrow

Peter Yarrow (born May 31, 1938) is an American singer and songwriter who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary.

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Philip Best

Philip Best (born 1968) is an English pioneer of power electronics, who formed the band Consumer Electronics in 1982 at the age of 14.

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Philip José Farmer

Philip José Farmer (January 26, 1918 – February 25, 2009) was an American author known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

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Phoebus cartel

The Phoebus cartel existed to control the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs.

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Picador (imprint)

Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States.

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Pig Bodine

Seaman "Pig" Bodine is a fictional character appearing in many novels written by Thomas Pynchon.

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Pink's Hot Dogs

Pink's Hot Dogs is a landmark hot dog restaurant in the Fairfax District of the city of Los Angeles on North La Brea Avenue across the street from the Hollywood district on the east.

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Piper cubeba

Piper cubeba, cubeb or tailed pepper is a plant in genus Piper, cultivated for its fruit and essential oil.

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Point Omega

Point Omega is a short novel by the American author Don DeLillo that was published in hardcover by Scribner's on February 2, 2010.

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Political fiction

Political fiction employs narrative to comment on political events, systems and theories.

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Politics in fiction

This is a list of fictional stories in which politics features as an important plot element.

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Post horn

The post horn (also post-horn) is a valveless cylindrical brass instrument with a cupped mouthpiece.

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Postmodern literature

Postmodern literature is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Prüfstand VII

Prüfstand VII is a 2002 German docudrama film directed by Robert Bramkamp, about the V-2 rocket and the rocket research in the Peenemünde Army Research Center.

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Pueblo, Colorado

Pueblo is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pueblo County, Colorado, United States.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Pynchon

Pynchon is a surname.

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Quantum fiction

Quantum fiction is a literary genre that reflects modern experience of the material world and reality as influenced by quantum theory and new principles in quantum physics.

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Quicksilver (novel)

Quicksilver is a historical novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2003.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist.

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Randolph Scott

George Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962.

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Raymond Ramcharitar

Raymond R. Ramcharitar is a Trinidadian poet, playwright, fiction writer and media and cultural critic.

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Recluse

A recluse is a person who lives in voluntary seclusion from the public and society.

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Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur.

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Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo Uranga (16 December 1908 – 8 October 1963) was a Spanish surrealist artist.

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Resistentialism

Resistentialism is a jocular theory to describe "seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects", where objects that cause problems (like lost keys or a runaway bouncy ball) are said to exhibit a high degree of malice toward humans.

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Reynolds Price

Edward Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011) was an American poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University.

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Richard Fariña

Richard George Fariña (March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966) was an American folksinger, songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Richard Melo

Richard Melo (born August 10, 1968) is an American author and book reviewer.

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Rick Moody

Hiram Frederick "Rick" Moody III (born October 18, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought him widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of the same title.

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Rinehart (Harvard)

The cry of Rinehart! (more fully Oh, R-i-i-i-n-e-HART!) was a meme of Harvard University student and alumni culture in the early decades of the 20th century.

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Robert Eisenman

Robert Eisenman (born 1937) is an American biblical scholar, theoretical writer, historian, archaeologist, and "road" poet.

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Roberto Bolaño

Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist.

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Robie Macauley

Robie Mayhew Macauley (May 31, 1919 – November 20, 1995) was an American editor, novelist and critic whose literary career spanned more than 50 years.

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Rock Plaza Central

Rock Plaza Central is a band from Toronto, Canada.

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Rocket mail

Rocket mail is the delivery of mail by rocket or missile.

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Roosevelt family

The Roosevelt family is an American business and political family from New York whose members have included two United States Presidents, a First Lady, and various merchants, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites.

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Rowohlt Verlag

Rowohlt Verlag is a publishing house based in Reinbek and also Hamburg and Berlin, part of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Group (since 1982).

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Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a large affluent town in western Kent, England, around south-east of central London by road and by rail.

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Rubem Fonseca

Rubem Fonseca (born May 11, 1925) is a Brazilian writer.

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Rudy Wurlitzer

Rudolph "Rudy" Wurlitzer (born January 3, 1937) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Runcible

"Runcible" is a nonsense word invented by Edward Lear.

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Sadism and masochism in fiction

The role of sadism and masochism in fiction has attracted serious scholarly attention.

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Sailing to Philadelphia

Sailing to Philadelphia is the second solo studio album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 26 September 2000 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.

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San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is given by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle (since 2006).

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San Francisco in popular culture

Depictions of San Francisco in popular culture can be found in many different media.

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Sanjak of Novi Pazar

The Sanjak of Novi Pazar (Novopazarski sandžak; Новопазарски санџак; Yeni Pazar sancağı) was an Ottoman sanjak (second-level administrative unit) that was created in 1865.

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Sara Suleri Goodyear

Sara Suleri Goodyear, born Sara Suleri (born June 12, 1953), is an American author and professor emeritus of English at Yale University, where her fields of study and teaching include Romantic and Victorian poetry and an interest in Edmund Burke.

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Sasha Pieterse

Sasha Pieterse (born February 17, 1996) is a South African-born American actress and singer-songwriter.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Scott Miller (pop musician)

Scott Miller (April 4, 1960 – April 15, 2013) was a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as leader of the 1980s band Game Theory and 1990s band The Loud Family, and as the author of a 2010 book of music criticism.

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Sergey Kuznetsov (writer)

Sergey Yurievich Kuznetsov (Сергей Юрьевич Кузнецов; born 14 June 1966) is a contemporary Russian writer, journalist and entrepreneur.

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Sewer alligator

Sewer alligator stories date back to the late 1920s and early 1930s; in most instances they are part of contemporary legend.

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Shelley Jackson

Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is an American writer and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including her hyperfiction, Patchwork Girl (1995).

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Sixth-rate

In the rating system of the British Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works and sometimes without.

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Sloth (deadly sin)

Sloth is one of the seven capital sins.

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Slow Learner

Slow Learner is the 1984 published collection of five early short stories by the American novelist Thomas Pynchon, originally published in various sources between 1959 and 1964.

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Smile (The Beach Boys album)

Smile (stylized as SMiLE) is an unfinished album by American rock band the Beach Boys that was projected to follow their 11th studio album, Pet Sounds (1966).

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Sofia Kovalevskaya

Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Со́фья Васи́льевна Ковале́вская), born Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya (– 10 February 1891), was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics.

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Special Operations Executive in popular culture

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was British organisation that conducted espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in World War II.

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Spike Jones

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing in satirical arrangements of popular songs and classical music.

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St Mark's Campanile

St Mark's Campanile (Campanile di San Marco; Canpanièl de San Marco) is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy, located in the Piazza San Marco.

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Staindrop

Staindrop is a village and civil parish east of Barnard Castle in County Durham, England.

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Starstruck (comics)

Starstruck is an American comic book series.

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Stephen Wright (writer)

Stephen Wright (born 1946) is a novelist based in New York City known for his use of surrealistic imagery and dark comedy.

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Steve Brodie (bridge jumper)

Steve Brodie (December 25, 1861 – January 31, 1901) was an American from Manhattan, New York City who on July 23, 1886, jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and survived.

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Steve Erickson

Stephen Michael "Steve" Erickson (born April 20, 1950) is an American novelist.

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Storming the Reality Studio

Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction, edited by Larry McCaffery, was published by Duke University Press in 1992, though most of its contents had been featured in Mississippi Review in 1988.

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Story within a story

A story within a story is a literary device in which one character within a narrative narrates.

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Stuart Moulthrop

Stuart Moulthrop (born 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction, both as a theoretician and as a writer.

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Subterranean fiction

Subterranean fiction is a subgenre of adventure fiction or science fiction which focuses on underground settings, sometimes at the center of the Earth or otherwise deep below the surface.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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Sydney Omarr

Sydney Omarr (5 August 1926 – 2 January 2003), born Sidney Kimmelman in Philadelphia was an American astrologer and an astrology consultant to the rich and famous.

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Tad Williams

Robert Paul "Tad" Williams (born 14 March 1957 in San Jose, California) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer.

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Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space

TAMALA2010 a punk cat in space is a Japanese anime feature film.

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Tay Hohoff

Therese von Hohoff Torrey ("Tay Hohoff") (July 3, 1898 — January 5, 1974) was an American literary editor with the publishing firm J. B. Lippincott & Co..

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Tähtivaeltaja Award

Tähtivaeltaja Award is an annual prize by Helsingin science fiction seura ry for the best science fiction book released in Finnish.

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Technical writer

A technical writer is a professional information communicator whose task it is to transfer information (knowledge) between two or more parties, through any medium that best facilitates the transfer and comprehension of the information.

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The Big Bounce (1969 film)

The Big Bounce is a 1969 film directed by Alex March, based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard and starring Ryan O'Neal, Van Heflin, and Leigh Taylor-Young in what was the first of several films based on Leonard's crime novels.

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The Blow Out

The Blow Out is a 1936 Looney Tunes animated short film starring Porky Pig.

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The Cannibal (Hawkes novel)

The Cannibal is a 1949 novel by John Hawkes, partially based on Hawkes' own experiences in the Second World War.

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The Corrections

The Corrections is a 2001 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen.

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The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by Thomas Pynchon, first published in 1966.

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The Demolished Man

The Demolished Man is a science fiction novel by American writer Alfred Bester, which was the first Hugo Award winner in 1953.

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The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams is an autobiography that records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838–1918), in his later years, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth.

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The Ersatz Elevator

The Ersatz Elevator is the sixth novel of the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers is an underground comic about a fictional trio of stoner characters, created by the American artist Gilbert Shelton.

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The Feast of Fools

The Feast of Fools (1994) is a novel by John David Morley, a neo-Joycean translation of the Greek myth of Persephone to contemporary Munich.

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The Gernsback Continuum

"The Gernsback Continuum" is a 1981 science fiction short story by American-Canadian author William Gibson, originally published in the anthology Universe 11 edited by Terry Carr.

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The Graphic Canon

The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals (Seven Stories Press) is a three-volume anthology, edited by Russ Kick, that renders some of the world's greatest and most famous literature into graphic-novel form.

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The Holder of the World

The Holder of the World, (1993) is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee.

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The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston.

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy

The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1975.

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The Insect Trust

The Insect Trust was an American jazz-based rock band that formed in New York in 1967.

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The Jazz Butcher

The Jazz Butcher, also known as The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy and The Jazz Butcher And His Sikkorskis From Hell, are a British musical group founded by Pat Fish.

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The Kenyon Review

The Kenyon Review is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College.

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The Lost Scrapbook

The Lost Scrapbook (1995) is a novel by the American writer Evan Dara.

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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (song)

"The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" is a popular British music hall song of the 19th century, written in 1891 or 1892 by Fred Gilbert (Frederick Younge Gilbert, 1850 - 1903), a theatrical agent who had begun to write comic songs as a sideline some twenty years previously.

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The Olivia Tremor Control/The Apples in Stereo

The Olivia Tremor Control/The Apples in Stereo is a 1994 split single by the two Elephant 6 bands.

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The Recognitions

The Recognitions is the 1955 debut novel of US author William Gaddis.

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The Restraint of Beasts

The Restraint of Beasts is a tragicomic debut novel, written by Magnus Mills.

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The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

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The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet is the debut novel by American author Reif Larsen, first published in 2009.

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The Simpsons (season 15)

The Simpsons fifteenth season began on Sunday, November 2, 2003, with "Treehouse of Horror XIV".

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The Simpsons (season 16)

The Simpsons sixteenth season (November 7, 2004 – May 15, 2005) began on Sunday, November 7, 2004 and contained 21 episodes, beginning with Treehouse of Horror XV.

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The Skipper

The Skipper is the title and nickname of Jonas Grumby, a fictional character from the 1960s situation comedy Gilligan's Island.

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Third Man factor

The Third Man factor or Third Man syndrome refers to the reported situations where an unseen presence such as a spirit provides comfort or support during traumatic experiences.

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Thomas D. Cope

Thomas Darlington Cope (1880 – December 13, 1964) was an American physicist and historian of science who published numerous articles concerning the Mason-Dixon survey in America, providing the most thorough record of the scientific accomplishments and historical importance of the survey.

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Thomas Guinzburg

Thomas Henry Guinzburg (March 30, 1926 – September 8, 2010) was an American editor and publisher who served as the first managing editor of The Paris Review following its inception in 1953 and later succeeded his father as president of the Viking Press.

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Thomas Pynchon bibliography

This is a list of works by writer Thomas Pynchon.

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Thrice

Thrice is an American rock band from Irvine, California, formed in 1998.

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Thurn und Taxis

The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis (Fürstenhaus Thurn und Taxis) is a family of German nobility that is part of the Briefadel.

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Thurston Moore

Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth.

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Tim Page (music critic)

Tim Page (born October 11, 1954) is a writer, editor, music critic, producer and professor.

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Tim Ware

Tim Ware (born October 26, 1948) is an American composer and musician, born in Sacramento, California.

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Timeline of science fiction

This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition.

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Tin House

Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City.

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Tom Hawkins (writer)

Thomas Donald Hawkins (January 11, 1927 – September 23, 1988), who was born in Pangurn, Arkansas and grew up in Port Angeles, Washington, was an American writer who is the probable author of the Wanda Tinasky letters, once widely thought to be the work of novelist Thomas Pynchon.

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Tom McCarthy (novelist)

Tom McCarthy (born 1969) is an English writer and artist.

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Tommaso Pincio

Tommaso Pincio is the pseudonym of Marco Colapietro, an Italian author of five novels, including Love-shaped story.

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Tony Tanner (scholar)

Paul Antony Tanner (18 March 1935 – 5 December 1998), was a British literary critic of the mid-20th century, and a pioneering figure in the study of American literature.

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Touch of Death

The touch of death (or Death-point striking) refers to any martial arts technique reputed to kill using seemingly less than lethal force targeted at specific areas of the body.

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Trainspotting (film)

Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her acting debut.

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Transrealism (literature)

Transrealism is a literary mode that mixes the techniques of incorporating fantastic elements used in science fiction with the techniques of describing immediate perceptions from naturalistic realism.

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Trinidad, California

Trinidad Yurok: Chuerey is a seaside city in Humboldt County, located on the Pacific Ocean north of the Arcata-Eureka Airport and north of the college town of Arcata.

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Tristan Taormino

Tristan Taormino (born May 9, 1971) is an American feminist author, columnist, sex educator, activist, editor, speaker, radio host, and pornographic film director (she also appeared in three films, two of which she directed, 1999–2000).

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Tropic of Cancer (novel)

Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller that has been described as "notorious for its candid sexuality" and as responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature".

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TRP

TRP or Trp may refer to.

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Tunguska event in popular culture

The Tunguska event was an explosion that occurred on 30 June 1908, in the Siberian region of Russia, possibly caused by a meteoroid air burst.

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Twentieth-century English literature

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Tyrosemiophilia

Tyrosemiophilia is the hobby of collecting cheese labels.

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Underworld (DeLillo novel)

Underworld is a novel published in 1997 by Don DeLillo.

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Union Stock Yards

The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States in the 1950s

The United States in the 1950s experienced marked economic growth – with an increase in manufacturing and home construction amongst a post–World War II economic expansion.

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V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta is a British graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd (with additional art by Tony Weare).

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V-weapons

V-weapons, known in original German as Vergeltungswaffen (German: "retaliatory weapons", "reprisal weapons"), were a particular set of long-range artillery weapons designed for strategic bombing during World War II, particularly terror bombing and/or aerial bombing of cities.

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V.

V. is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963.

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Vaja Gigashvili

Vaja Gigashvili (ვაჟა გიგაშვილი; (October 15, 1936 — December 31, 2017) was a Georgian writer and playwright.

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Valletta

Valletta is the capital city of Malta, colloquially known as "Il-Belt" (lit. "The City") in Maltese.

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Vheissu

Vheissu (pronounced "vee-sue") is the fourth studio album by American rock band Thrice.

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Viking Press

Viking Press is an American publishing company now owned by Penguin Random House.

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Vineland

Vineland is a 1990 novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan's reelection.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.

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Volume Two (The Soft Machine album)

Volume Two is the second LP album by The Soft Machine, released in 1969.

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Wanda Tinasky

Wanda Tinasky, ostensibly a bag lady living under a bridge in the Mendocino County area of Northern California, was the pseudonymous author of a series of playful, comic and erudite letters sent to the Mendocino Commentary and Anderson Valley Advertiser between 1983 and 1988.

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War novel

A war novel (military fiction) is a novel in which the primary action takes place on a battlefield, or in a civilian setting (or home front), where the characters are either preoccupied with the preparations for, suffering the effects of, or recovering from war.

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Warlock (Hall novel)

Warlock is a western novel by American author Oakley Hall, first published in 1958.

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Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

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WASTE

WASTE is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend protocol and software application developed by Justin Frankel at Nullsoft in 2003 that features instant messaging, chat rooms, and file browsing/sharing capabilities.

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Watts riots

The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965.

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Wee Kirk o' the Heather (Las Vegas)

The Wee Kirk o' the Heather is credited as being the very first wedding chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Wes Kussmaul

Wes Kussmaul, author of several books about online security, is the founder of the Kussmaul Encyclopedia, the first online encyclopedia.

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West Lancashire derby

The West Lancashire derby (sometimes also known as the M55 derby) is a local rivalry in English football between Lancashire clubs Blackpool and Preston North End.

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Westron Wynde

Westron Wynde is an early 16th-century song whose tune was used as the basis (cantus firmus) of Masses by English composers John Taverner, Christopher Tye and John Sheppard.

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Wharfinger

Wharfinger (pronounced wor-fin-jer) is an archaic term for a person who is the keeper or owner of a wharf.

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What's Become of Waring

What’s Become of Waring is the fifth novel by the English writer Anthony Powell.

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Whip It (Devo song)

"Whip It" is a song by American rock band Devo, featured on their third album Freedom of Choice (1980).

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Why Bother? (essay)

"Why Bother?", originally published as "Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a Reason to Write Novels", is a literary essay by American novelist Jonathan Franzen.

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William Brewster (Mayflower passenger)

William Brewster (1566 – 10 April 1644) was an English official and Mayflower passenger in 1620.

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William Dean Howells Medal

The William Dean Howells Medal is awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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William Emerson (mathematician)

William Emerson (14 May 1701 – 20 May 1782) was an English mathematician.

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William Faulkner Foundation

The William Faulkner Foundation (1960-1970) was a charitable organization founded by the novelist William Faulkner in 1960 to support various charitable causes, all educational or literary in nature.

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William Gaddis

William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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William Irwin Thompson

William Irwin Thompson (born 16 July 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but he has also been writing and publishing poetry throughout his career and received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986.

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William March

William March (September 18, 1893 – May 15, 1954) was an American writer of psychological fiction and a highly decorated US Marine.

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William Pynchon

William Pynchon (October 11, 1590 – October 29, 1662) was an English colonist and fur trader in North America best known as the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.

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William T. Vollmann

William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28, 1959) is an American novelist, journalist, war correspondent, short story writer, and essayist.

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Witz (novel)

Witz is a novel by Joshua Cohen.

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Wizard of the Crow

Wizard of the Crow (Gikuyu: Mũrogi wa Kagogo) is a 2006 novel written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and translated from the original Kikuyu into English by the author, his first novel in more than 20 years.

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Wolfe Tone

Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a leading Irish revolutionary figure and one of the founding members of the United Irishmen, and is regarded as the father of Irish republicanism and leader of the 1798 Irish Rebellion.

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Woman in the Moon

Woman in the Moon (German Frau im Mond) is a science fiction silent film that premiered 15 October 1929 at the UFA-Palast am Zoo cinema in Berlin to an audience of 2,000.

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World War II in popular culture

There is a wide range of ways in which people have represented World War II in popular culture.

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Yale University in popular culture

Yale University, one of the oldest universities in the United States, has been the subject of numerous aspects of popular culture.

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Youghiogheny River

The Youghiogheny River, or the Yough for short, is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Yoyodyne

Yoyodyne is the name of a number of companies, both fictional and real.

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Zak Smith

Zak Smith (born July 16, 1976), also known as Zak Sabbath, is an American artist and adult film performer.

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Zellig Harris

Zellig Sabbettai Harris (October 23, 1909 – May 22, 1992) was a very influential American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science.

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17776

17776, also known as What Football Will Look Like in the Future, is a serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative by Jon Bois published online through SB Nation.

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1937

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1937 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1937.

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1963 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1963.

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1966 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1966.

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1973

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1973 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1973.

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1984 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1984.

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1990 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1990.

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1997 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1997.

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2006 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2006.

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2009 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2009.

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2017 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 2017.

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20th century in literature

Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).

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20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction

The 20th Century’s Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a popular "best of" list compiled by Larry McCaffery largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century fiction.

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21st century in literature

The 21st century in literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st century.

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49 (number)

49 (forty-nine) is the natural number following 48 and preceding 50.

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86 (term)

When used as a verb, eighty-six, eighty-sixed, 86, 86ed, or 86'd is American English slang for getting rid of something, ejecting someone, or refusing service.

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87th Academy Awards

The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2014 and took place on February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon

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