by Tom Nissley
Ackerley, J. R., 177, 332
Ackroyd, Peter, 267, 354, 381
Act One (Hart), 301
Adair, Gilbert, 165
Adams, Ansel, 127
Adams, Clover, 385
Adams, Douglas, 82, 323, 402
Adams, Franklin P., 47
Adams, Henry, 55, 352, 385
Adams, John, 213
Adams, Richard, 148, 236
Adaptation, 400
Adler, Mortimer, 201
Adler, Renata, 18, 160, 330
Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, The (Mutis), 86
Adventures in the Screen Trade (Goldman), 229
Adventures of Augie March, The (Bellow), 302
Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The (Chabon), 140, 306
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The (Doyle), 327
“Aeroplanes at Brescia, The” (Kafka), 305
African, The (Courlander), 328
Against Interpretation (Sontag), 287
Agassi, Andre, 164
Agee, James, 157, 191, 372
Age of Grief, The (Smiley), 105
Age of Innocence, The (Wharton), 112
Age of Wire and String, The (Marcus), 122
Agnes Grey (Bronté), 212, 216
Aiken, Conrad, 260, 279
Airport (Hailey), 5
Akhmatova, Anna, 76, 292
Alain-Fournier, Henri, 299
Albert, Laura, 342
Albert Angelo (Johnson), 44
alcohol, 141, 213, 218, 245, 256, 257, 265, 300, 333, 350, 359, 398; beer, 106, 162, 252, 359, 390; binges, 9, 76, 347, 375; in fiction, 129, 356, 404; gin, 210; hangovers, 3, 175, 176; “Lucky Jim, The,” 176; mescal, 347; Scotch, 184, 404; sobriety, 175, 390; wine, 128; and writing, 82, 252
Alcoholics Anonymous, 362, 390
Alcott, Bronson, 250
Alcott, Louisa May, 77, 85, 250, 266, 379
Alden, W. L., 74
Aldington, Richard, 257
Aleichem, Sholem, 152
Alexander, Lloyd, 156
Alexie, Sherman, 192, 318
Alger, Horatio, Jr., 45, 226, 274
Alger: A Biography Without a Hero (Mayes), 45
Algiers Motel Incident, The (Hersey), 233
Algren, Nelson, 148
Alice, Let’s Eat (Trillin), 288
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 139, 143, 212, 340, 384, 395
Alienist, The (Carr), 74
Alive (Read), 51, 393
Allen, Larry, 393
Allen, Matthew, 363
Allen, Woody, 336, 380
Allende, Isabel, 245
Allison, Dorothy, 116
Allman, Paul Limbert, 315
All-Story, 380
All the King’s Men (Warren), 243, 246
All the President’s Men (Woodward and Bernstein), 291, 336
All the Year Round, 234, 378
Almanach des Gourmands (Grimod), 6
Almanach des honnêtes gens (Maréchal), 258
Alsop, Joseph, 271
Alvarez, A., 88
Alvarez, Julia, 98
Amazing Stories, 259
Amazon.com, 223
Ambler, Eric, 333
Ambrose, Stephen E., 324
America in the King Years (Branch), 109
American Almanac (Leeds), 4
“American Heartworm” (Metcalf), 122
American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, 30
American Mercury, 101
American Pastoral (Roth), 179, 195
Americans, The (Frank), 352
American Splendor (Pekar), 410
American Tabloid (Ellroy), 363
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 111
Ames, Jonathan, 94
Amis, Kingsley, 86, 121, 139, 176, 384
Amis, Martin, 268, 328, 384
Ammons, A. R., 64, 77, 394
Amongst Women (McGahern), 385
Among the Thugs (Buford), 40
Anatomy Lesson, The (Rembrandt), 21
Anatomy of a Moment, The (Cercas), 62
Andersen, Hans Christian, 107, 185, 247, 322
Anderson, Laurie Halse, 334
Anderson, Sherwood, 79, 133
Andreas-Salomé, Lou, 44, 151
Andrews, V. C., 179
And Still the Waters Run (Debo), 35
And Then There Were None (Christie), 251
Angell, Roger, 65, 296, 329
Angelou, Maya, 109, 172
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (Wilson), 402
Angry Penguins, 231
Animal Farm (Orwell), 253
animals: badgers, 232; bedbugs, 107, 324; bees, 315, 391; butterflies, 182; cats, 30, 34, 110, 114, 234, 300, 307, 337; civet cats, 50, 340; cows, 56, 84, 124, 256, 288; dogs, 25, 126, 152, 183, 217, 254, 266, 342; elephants, 102; fawn, 238; frogs, 11, 139, 282; goat, 119; hog, 287; horses, 82, 88, 93, 95, 129, 133, 141, 265; lambs, 56, 69–70; lion, 69-70; mice, 4, 232, 234; rabbits, 31, 139, 236; sea monsters, 116; sharks, 112, 166, 193, 236; skunk, 4; spider, 133; squirrel, 222; tiger, 210; toad, 139, 149, 244, 282; tortoises, 386; turtle, 319; vole, 232; wasp, 292; whales, 58, 395; wolves, 162; yeti, 333
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver), 71
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 219
Annapurna (Herzog), 154
Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery), 71, 213, 309, 374
Antarctica, 5, 28, 92, 121, 208, 408
Anthony, Piers, 249
Antichrist, The (Nietzsche), 8
“Ant of the Self, An” (Packer), 327
Apana, Chang, 221
Apocalypse Now, 233, 326
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 269
Apple in the Dark, The (Lispector), 340
Apple, R. W., 177
Appointment in Samarra (O’Hara), 405
Aquinas, Thomas, 78, 386
Arbus, Diane, 85
Arendt, Hannah, 116, 383
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Blume), 79
Argosy, 365
Ariel (Maurois), 238
Arlen, Michael, 196
Armies of the Night, The (Mailer), 332
Army Man, 230
Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne), 400
Arthur Mervyn (Brown), 243, 268
Asbury, Herbert, 101, 262, 278
Ashe, Arthur, 285
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 107, 146
Asimov, Isaac, 85, 111
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (Hansen), 108
Astounding Science Fiction, 148
Asturias, Miguel Angel, 182
Aswany, Alaa Al, 73
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 60
Athenaeum, 36
Athill, Diana, 400
Atlantic Monthly, 23, 120, 144, 188, 213
Atonement (McEwan), 305
At Swim-Two-Birds (O’Brien), 89, 237
At Swim, Two Boys (O’Neill), 88
At the Mountains of Madness (Lovecraft), 5, 28
Atwood, Margaret, 157, 198, 363
Auchincloss, Eve, 301
Auden, W. H., 5, 23, 27, 40, 216, 276, 326
Audubon, John James, 119, 295
Auer, Jane. See Bowles, Jane
Auerbach, Erich, 327
Augustine, St., 130, 131, 358
August 1914 (Solzhenitsyn), 242
Auschwitz, 32, 175, 194, 219, 397
Austen, Jane, 13, 39, 53, 113, 117, 130, 226, 245, 371, 395
Auster, Paul, 42, 271
Austin, Mary, 286
Autobiography (Franklin), 239
Autobiography (Trollope), 338
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (Stein), 286, 364
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The (Johnson), 56, 125, 172
Autobiography of LeRoi Jones, The, 324
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The, 59, 166, 194
Avedon, Richard, 312
Awakening, The (Chopin), 167
Awakenings (Sacks), 139, 233
Awdry, Rev. W., 92
> Babbitt (Lewis), 328
Babel, Isaac, 6, 154, 221, 222, 324
Baby and Child Care (Spock), 387
Bach, Steven, 199
Bachmann, Ingeborg, 328
Back to Blood (Wolfe), 326
Bacon, Francis, 265
Baez, Mimi, 135, 267
Bagdasarian, Ross, 179
Bailey, Blake, 83
Bainbridge, Beryl, 366
Baker, Dorothy, 172
Baker, Josephine, 244
Baker, Nicholson, 12, 249, 254, 300
Baldwin, James, 163, 185, 237, 245, 356, 396
Bales, Jack, 45
Ball, Ben, 263
“Ballad of Rodger Young, The,” 239
Ballard, J. G., 127, 360
Ball Four (Bouton), 269
Balliett, Whitney, 388, 408
Balzac, Honoré de, 43, 145, 261, 298, 317, 336, 368
Bambara, Toni Cade, 388
Bambi (Salten), 319
Bangs, Lester, 110, 135, 366
Banks, Russell, 99
Banville, John, 202, 385, 387
Baraka, Amiri. See Jones, LeRoi
Barbarians at the Gate (Burrough and Helyar), 330
Barbary Coast, The (Asbury), 101
Barker, Clive, 316
Barker, Pat, 147
Barks, Carl, 98
Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 140
Barnacle, Nora, 188, 189, 264
Barnes, Djuna, 185, 191, 235, 283, 287, 313
Baroque Cycle (Stephenson), 323
Barr, Candy, 302
Barrett, Andrea, 361
Barrett, Elizabeth, 26, 30, 91, 129, 138, 159, 202, 217
Barrie, J. M., 192, 363
Barry, Lynda, 7, 248
Barthelme, Donald, 112, 249, 305, 315
Barthelme, Frederick, 391
Barthelme, Steven, 391
Barthes, Henriette, 337
Barthes, Roland, 97, 337, 357
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” (Melville), 14
Baseball Abstract (James), 329
Bataille, Georges, 90
Bateson, Mary Catherine, 387
Battle of Dienbienphu, The (Roy), 46
battles: Ancre, the, 359; Athens, 131; Austerlitz, 381; Bautzen, 160; Chancellorsville, 70; Hernani, 64; Maiwand, 200; Gettysburg, 208; Rivington Street, 262; Shiloh, 111, 296; Tannenberg, 242; Waterloo, 160, 191, 278
Batuman, Elif, 222
Baudelaire, Charles, 114, 158
Bauer, Felice, xii, xiv, 256, 299
Baum, L. Frank, 145, 156, 312, 320, 408
Bayley, John, 399
Bazin, André, 123
BBC Talks of E. M. Forster, The, 257
Beach, Sylvia, 41, 122, 316
Beane, Billy, 177
Bear, Greg, 263
Bear Called Paddington, A (Bond), 324
Beard, James, 134
Beard, Richard, 346
Beardsley, Aubrey, 87
Beatles, the, 281
Beatrice and Virgil (Martel), 117
Beattie, Ann, 285, 379
Beaumont, Gustave de, 150, 222
Beautiful and Damned, The (Fitzgerald), 156
Beauvoir, Simone de, 14, 90, 98, 119
Bechdel, Alison, 60, 362
Beckett, Samuel, 12, 32, 53, 73, 118, 134, 190, 217, 359, 392, 401
Bedford, Sybille, 56
Bedtime for Frances (Hoban), 232
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Fariña), 135
Beer, Thomas, 298
Beerbohm, Max, 159, 349
Beevor, Anthony, 379
“Before the Change” (Munro), 225
Beggars of Life (Tully), 329
Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Boo), 226
Behn, Aphra, 121, 249
Bel Canto (Patchett), 333
Bellamy, Edward, 169
Bellefleur (Oates), 21
Bellevue Literary Press, 117
Bell Jar, The (Plath), 192
Bellow, Saul, 81, 94, 110, 183, 186, 222, 302, 372
Beloved (Morrison), 33, 350
Belushi, John, 76
Bemelmans, Ludwig, 132
Benchley, Peter, 173, 193
Benedict, Ruth, 17, 294
Bengtsson, Frans, 71
Ben-Hur (Wallace), 111, 169, 296
Benjamin, Walter, 223, 302
Bennett, Arnold, 110
Benson, E. F., 68
Berberova, Nina, 64
Berendt, John, 141
Berenstain, Stan, 371
Berger, John, 350
Berger, Thomas, 228
Beria, Lavrenti, 154
Berlin, Isaiah, 292
Bernanos, Georges, 213
Bernhard, Thomas, 51, 253
Bernstein, Carl, 53, 291, 336
Berriault, Gina, 223
Berry, Walter Van Rensselaer, 323
Berry, Wendell, 248
Berryman, John, 12, 40, 333
Besant, Annie, 297
Best, Mary Agnes, 184
Best and the Brightest, The (Halberstam), 30, 380
Bester, Alfred, 54
Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes, The (Debo), 35
Beyle, Henri. See Stendhal
Bible, the, 52, 299, 317, 353
Bierce, Ambrose, 197, 221, 281
Bigart, Homer, 203
Big Bounce, The (Leonard), 365
Biggers, Earl Derr, 221
Big Machine (LaValle), 353
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Böll), 283
Billy Budd (Melville), 124
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Fountain), 370
Binchy, Maeve, 238
birds, 26, 38, 119, 132, 327, 383; albatrosses, 358; chickadees, 41; chickens, 48, 286; finches, 312; hawk, 294; heron, blue, 238; nightingale, 322; owl, 291; peafowl, 339; pheasants, 312; ravens, 39; toucan, 375; Whiffle Hen, 32
“Birds, The” (du Maurier), 383
Birds of America (Moore), 297
Birds of America, The (Audubon), 119
Birkerts, Sven, 294
birthdays, character’s: Baggins, Bilbo, 299; Baggins, Frodo, 299; Bascombe, Ralph, 125; Bast, Leonard, 356; Bigend, Hubertus, 180; Blomkvist, Mikael, 23; Cullen, Edward, 193; Dressler, Martin, 274; Everdeen, Katniss, 147; Goldsmith, Peter, 9; Granger, Hermione, 296; HAL, 17; Haze, Dolores, 6; Highway, Charles, 384; Hosokawa, Katsumi, 333; Linton, Cathy, 91; Longbottom, Neville, 239; Malfoy, Draco, 178; Newman, Ludo, 91; Pnin, Timofey, 42; Potter, Harry, 239; Rosemary’s baby, 198; Sawtelle, Edgar, 152; Shandy, Tristram, 350; Sinai, Saleem, 258; Stephanides, Cal/Callie, 13; Weeks, Granner, 215; Wilson, William, 24
Bishop, Elizabeth, 92, 102, 132, 317, 340, 375
Bishop, John Peale, 252
Black, Jack, 9
black air, 78
Black and White Ball, 373
Blackboard Jungle, The (Hunter), 232
Black Book, The, 17
Black Boy (Wright), 168, 172
Black Echo, The (Connelly), 159
Black Robe (Moore), 311
Blackwood’s Magazine, 178, 319
Blair, Eric. See Orwell, George
Blake, William, 179, 255, 373, 404
Bleak House (Dickens), 92, 121, 298, 301, 343–44, 345
Blériot, Louis, 305
Blind Ambition (Dean), 192
Blind Assassin, The (Atwood), 157
Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne), 256
Blixen, Karen. See Dinesen, Isak
Bloch, Marc, 189
Blood Meridian (McCarthy), 184
Bloody Chamber, The (Carter), 247
Bloom, Allan, 291
Bloom, Amy, 191, 264
Bloom, Harold, 83
Blount, Edward, 353
Blue Lotus, The (Hergé), 140
Blues for Mister Charlie (Baldwin), 185
Blues People (Jones), 45
Blume, Judy, 51, 79
Blythe, Will, 85
Blyton, Enid, 373
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 227, 400
Bogan, Louise, 254
Boggs, J. S. G., 368
Boland, Eavan, 301
Bolaño, Roberto, 133, 223, 357, 363
Böll, Heinrich, 52, 283, 400
Bombeck, Erma, 127
Bond, Michael, 324
Bonnie and Clyde, 332
Bontemps, Arna, 324, 406
Boo, Katherine, 226, 255
Booker Prize, 15, 157, 194, 210, 350
Book of Bond, The (Amis), 176
Book of Days, The (Chambers), 88
Book of Evidence, The (Banville), 202
Book of Mormon, 97
Book of the Damned, The (Fort), 31
Book-of-the-Month Club, 249, 302
Book of Travels (Khusraw), 76
bookstores: Booked Up, 253; Elliott Bay Book Co., 122; Marks & Co., 316; Munro’s Books, 296; Shakespeare & Co., 41, 122; Strand, the, 235
Boorstin, Daniel J., 312
Borchert, Wolfgang, 365
Borden, Lizzie, 247
Borges, Jorge Guillermo, 63
Borges, Jorge Luis, 13, 63, 187, 212, 262, 267, 307
Born on the Fourth of July (Kovic), 207
Boswell, James, xv, 116, 340, 392
Bourdain, Anthony, 243
Bourne Identity, The (Ludlum), 96
Bouton, Jim, 269
Bouvard and Pecuchet (Flaubert), 214
Bowden, George, 73
Bowden, Mark, 225
Bowen, Elizabeth, 61, 84, 165
Bowles, Jane, 72, 143
Bowles, Paul, 72, 363
Boyd, William, 78
Boyle, Kay, 406
Boys on the Bus, The (Crouse), 177
Boy’s Will, A (Frost), 35
Braby, Maud Churton, 83
Bradbury, Ray, 178, 265, 279, 349
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 260
Bradford, Barbara Taylor, 149
Bradford, Richard, 384
Bradley, Bill, 32, 285
Bradley, David, 250
Bradley, Marion Zimmer, 176
Bradstreet, Anne, 218, 293
Branch, Taylor, 19, 109
Brautigan, Richard, 35, 342
Brave Men (Pyle), 396
Brave New World (Huxley), 384
Brawne, Fanny, 324, 397
Brazil: A Land of the Future (Zweig), 62
Bread Givers (Yezierska), 396
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 256
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Capote), 59, 307
Breaks of the Game, The (Halberstam), 39, 46
Brecht, Bertolt, 49
Bridge, The (Crane), 150
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Fielding), 3
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Wallace), 193
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The (Diaz), 169
Bright Lights, Big City (McInerney), 255
“Bright Star” (Keats), 324
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, 41, 220
Bring Up the Bodies (Mantel), 30
Brink, André, 168
Brittain, Vera, 279, 280, 405, 408
Brod, Max, 256, 305, 410
Brodkey, Harold, 31
Brodsky, Joseph, 294
“Brokeback Mountain” (Proulx), 197
