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A Reader's Book of Days

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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 (Weschler), 368

  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

 

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