by Tom Nissley
James, William, 11, 16, 60, 79, 164, 265, 368, 393
James I, 278, 317
James Joyce (Ellmann), 366
Jameson, Storm, 280
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 117, 216, 331, 334, 344, 384
Janeway, Elizabeth, 260
Jansson, Tove, 200
Jarhead (Swofford), 321
Jarrell, Randall, 139, 145
Jarry, Alfred, 346, 389
Jaspers, Karl, 65
Jaws (Benchley), 173, 193
Jay, John, 208
Jefferson, Thomas, 25, 212, 213, 295, 355, 364
Jelinek, Elfriede, 331
Jenkins, Dan, 19
Jennings, Ken, 183
Jeopardy!, 51, 183
Jerusalem, Karl Wilhelm, 341
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 197, 392
Jew of Malta, The (Marlowe), 144
Jimmy Corrigan (Ware), 300
Johnson, B. S., 44
Johnson, Charles, 109
Johnson, Donna Mae, 187
Johnson, Esther, 33
Johnson, James Weldon, 56, 125, 172, 190
Johnson, Joyce, 281
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 272, 276
Johnson, Samuel, xv, 25, 116, 135, 212, 295, 392
Johnston, Lynn, 126
Johnstown Flood, The (McCullough), 170
Jonah’s Gourd Vine (Hurston), 314, 327
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Bach), 368
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Clarke), 191, 282
Jones, David, 40, 326
Jones, Edward P., 202
Jones, Gayl, 368
Jones, Hettie, 324
Jones, James, 351
Jones, LeRoi, 45, 270, 324
Jones, Thom, 31
Jonson, Ben, 278, 299, 353
Jordan, Robert, 293
Joseph Anton (Rushdie), 53
Josephine Mutzenbacher (Salten), 319
Jourdain, Margaret, 317
Journal (Mansfield), 219
Journalist and the Murderer, The (Malcolm), 277, 288
Journals (Goncourts), 158
Journals (Oates), 21
Joy of Sex, The (Comfort), 174
Joyce, James, xiv, 12, 18, 32, 38, 41, 85, 98, 115, 119, 122, 188, 189, 190, 212, 213, 259, 264, 338, 359, 366, 385, 389, 407
Jude the Obscure (Hardy), 370
Judge, 19
“Judgment, The” (Kafka), 299
Judith (Bennett), 110
Judt, Tony, 19, 249
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 60, 69–70, 71, 85, 288
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer (Katchor), 50
July 7th (McCorkle), 215
July 20, 2019 (Clarke), 228
Jung, Carl, 127, 179
Junger, Sebastian, 22, 106
Jungle, The (Sinclair), 158
Junky (Burroughs), 9
Just, Ward, 282
Juster, Norton, 175
Just Kids (Smith), 49
Kadare, Ismail, 33
Kaddish (Ginsberg), 217
Kael, Pauline, 82, 280, 332
Kafka, Franz, xii, xiv–xv, 44, 56, 93, 107, 118, 176, 211, 253, 256, 299, 305, 324, 338, 410
Kakutani, Michiko, 117
Kane, Gil, 111
Kant, Immanuel, 346
Kappus, Franz, 56
Kapuściński, Ryszard, 28, 394
Karr, Mary, xiv, 21
Katchor, Ben, 50
Kauffmann, Stanley, 44
Kaufman, Charlie, 400
Kaufman, George S., 175
Kaufman, Philip, 229
Kavanagh, Pat, 176
Kaveney, Roz, 235
Kawabata, Yasunari, 187, 349
Kay, Guy Gavriel, 352
Kaye, Lenny, 49
Kazantzakis, Nikos, 337
Kazin, Alfred, 99
Keats, Ezra Jack, 82
Keats, John, 62, 89, 116, 226, 267, 281, 319, 324, 355, 380, 397, 406
Keefauver, Brad, 320
Keeler, Harry Stephen, 27
Keene, Carolyn. See Wirt, Mildred
Keillor, Garrison, 250
Keller, Helen, 174
Kellerman, Jonathan, 252
Kelly, Ned, 49
Kelly, Robert, 97
Kelly, Walt, 329
Kelman, James, 130
Kemble, Fanny, 20
Kempton, Murray, 144
Kennan, George, 55
Kennan, George F., 55
Kennedy, A. L., 23, 333
Kennedy, John F., 169, 304, 363, 367, 380
Kennedy, Robert F., 163
Kennedy, William, 175
Kenner, Hugh, 366, 369
Kent, Rockwell, 84
Kerouac, Jack, xv, 66, 74, 83, 127, 218, 266, 281, 295, 318, 332, 359, 406
Kerouac at Bat (Gewirtz), 218
Kesey, Ken, 294
Ketcham, Hank, 85
Keynes, John Maynard, 126
Khayyam, Omar, 157, 380
Khrushchev, Nikita, 331
Khusraw, Nasir, 76
Kidder, Tracy, 357
Kierkegaard, Søren, 15, 59, 144, 364
Kieron Smith, Boy (Kelman), 130
Killer Angels, The (Shaara), 208, 210
Killer Inside Me, The (Thompson), 110
Killings (Trillin), 390
Kilvert, Francis, 152
Kincaid, Jamaica, 11, 105, 164
Kincaid, James R., 391
Kindred (Butler), 182
King, Albert, 261
King, Frank, 197
King, Martin Luther, 109, 121
King, Stephen, 9, 166, 298, 310
King Kong, 222
Kingsolver, Barbara, 71, 113
King Suckerman (Pelecanos), 206
Kinsey, Alfred, 77, 196
Kipen, David, 215
Kipling, Rudyard, 23, 36, 42, 96
Kirby, Jack, 45
Kirn, Walter, 51
Kirstein, Lincoln, 10
Kissinger, Henry, 369
Kitchen Confidential (Bourdain), 243
Klein, Edward, 239
Klein, Joe, 225
Kleinzahler, August, 389
Kleist, Heinrich von, 76, 93, 329, 366
Klemperer, Victor, xv, 341
Klinkenborg, Verlyn, 314
Kluge, Alexander, 379
Knausgaard, Karl Ove, 66
Knickerbocker, Conrad, 21
Knopf, Blanche, 125, 333
Kober, Arthur, 10
Koch, Kenneth, 190
Koestler, Arthur, 72
Kogawa, Joy, 161
Kohlhase, Hans, 93
Kohn, Howard, 334
Konigsburg, E. L., 49
Kon-Tiki (Heyerdahl), 247
Ko Un, 258
Kovic, Ron, 206-7
Kozinski, Jerzy, 142
Krakauer, Jon, 150
Kramer, Jerry, 398
Kraus, Karl, 185
Krauss, Nicole, 261
Krauss, Ruth, 218
Krazy Kat (Herriman), 234
Krim, Seymour, 273
Krist, Gary, 169
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 267
Kubrick, Stanley, 153, 347
Kundera, Milan, 106, 273
Kurtzman, Harvey, 314
Kutler, Stanley I., 134
Kyd, Thomas, 144
La Boétie, Étienne de, 261
Laclos, Choderlos de, 282, 383
Lady Audley’s Secret (Braddon), 260
Lady Chatterly’s Lover (Lawrence), 211
La Fayette, Madame de, 164
Laforgue, Jules, 263
Lagerlöf, Selma, 87
Lagoon and Other Stories (Frame), 405
Lahiri, Jhumpa, 219
Lamantia, Philip, 318
L’Amour, Louis, 93
Lampedusa, Giuseppe di, 152, 234
Lanchester, John, 64
Landers, Ann. See Lederer, Eppie
Land of Plenty, The (Cantwell), 155
Lane, Allen, 238
Lane, Charles, 147
Lane, Rose Wilder, 22
Lang, And
rew, 228
Laodician, A (Hardy), 115
Lardner, Ring, 77, 193
Larkin, Philip, 86, 103, 128, 139, 167, 214, 228, 252, 354
Larsen, Nella, 101, 354
Larson, Gary, 257
Larsson, Stieg, 23, 48, 83, 314, 354, 399
Lasch, Christopher, 174
L’Assommoir (Zola), 118
Last Chronicle of Barset, The (Trollope), 292
Last Day at the Lobster (O’Nan), 399
Last of the Mohicans, The (Cooper), 357
Last Orders (Swift), 107
Last Samurai, The (DeWitt), 91
Last September, The (Bowen), 84
Late Innings (Angell), 329
Laurels of Lake Constance, The (Chaix), 283
Laurence, Margaret, 10
“Lausanne: In Old Gibbon’s Garden: 11–12 pm” (Hardy), 200
Lautréamont, Comte de, 220, 334
LaValle, Victor, 353
Lawd Today (Wright), 51
Lawrence, D. H., 58, 73, 109, 176, 211, 282, 288, 404
Lawrence, Frieda, 109
Lawrence, T. E., 158, 238, 318, 381
Lawson, Alexander, 119
Laxness, Halldór, 47
Lay of the Land, The (Ford), 125
Leacock, Stephen, 409
Lear, Edward, 34, 151
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 212, 246, 335, 355
Leavitt, David, 196
le Carré, John, 330
Led Zeppelin, 42, 236
Lederer, Eppie, 212
Lee, Chang-Rae, 237
Lee, Harper, 133, 218, 366, 404
Lee, Manfred, 108
Lee, Stan, 407
Leeds, Titan, 4
Lefroy, Tom, 13
Left Hand of Darkness, The (LeGuin), 39
Le Guin, Ursula K., 39, 332, 369
Lehane, Dennis, 202, 247
Leibniz, Gottfried, 323, 346
Leiris, Michel, 90, 307
Lem, Stanislaw, 98
L’Engle, Madeleine, 311, 374
Leonard, Elmore, 7, 322, 345, 365
Leonardo da Vinci, 141
Leopard, The (Lampedusa), 152
Leopardi, Giacomo, 202
Leopold, Aldo, 4, 41, 344
Leopold II, 245
Leopold and Loeb, 160
Le Poittevin, Albert, 109
Leroy, JT, 342
Lessing, Doris, 12, 322, 333
Lethem, Jonathan, 58, 272, 349, 357
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” (King), 121
Letterman, David, 230, 410
Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke), 56
Let the Great World Spin (McCann), 250
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee and Evans), 191
Levels of the Game (McPhee), 285
Levertov, Denise, 5, 399
Levi, Primo, 32, 116, 145, 239, 322, 397
Levin, Ira, 198, 357
Levin, Meyer, 188
Levine, Philip, 15
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 341
Levy, Andrea, 167
Lewes, George Henry, 117, 360
Lewis, C. S., 177, 367, 374, 382
Lewis, Janet, 289
Lewis, Matthew, 62
Lewis, Meriwether, 322
Lewis, Michael, 177
Lewis, Sinclair, 15
Leyda, Jay, xv
“Liars in Love” (Yates), 65
Libby, Margaret S., 151
Liberation of Lord Byron Jones, The (Ford), 361
Libra (DeLillo), 304
libraries, xi, 13, 122, 133, 168, 181, 201, 219, 349, 353, 391; New York Public Library, 31, 99, 102; personal, 32, 67, 99, 213, 218. 235, 354
Liddell, Alice, 139, 143, 212
Liddy, G. Gordon, 192, 284
Liebling, A. J., 407
Life, 124, 163
Life Among the Savages (Jackson), 200
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The (Sterne), 77, 154, 350
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 39, 280
Life, a User’s Manual (Perec), 196
Life of Pi (Martel), 117, 210
Life of the Right Reverend Joseph P. Machebeuf, The (Howlett), 210
Life on the Mississippi (Twain), 75
Life Studies (Lowell), 272
“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” 56, 172
Liggett, Walter W., 388
Light in August (Faulkner), 146, 243
Like a Fiery Elephant (Coe), 44, 215
Likeness, The (French), 105
Lincoln (Vidal), 305
Lincoln, Abraham, 38, 51, 73, 93, 104, 105, 109, 119, 120, 157, 370
Lind, Jenny, 322
Lindgren, Astrid, 359, 399
Lindsay, Vachel, 385
Line of Beauty, The (Hollinghurst), 350
“Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey” (Wordsworth), 221
Linnean Society, 89, 209
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The (Lewis), 177
Lippman, Laura, 100
Lippmann, Walter, 96
Lish, Gordon, 29, 216, 328
Lispector, Clarice, 301, 340, 388
Liszt, Franz, 317
Littell, Robert, 156
Little Children (Perrotta), 85
Little Dorrit (Darwin), 124
Little Friend, The (Tartt), 348
Little House in the Big Woods (Wilder), 22
Little Man, What Now? (Fallada), 36
Little Nemo in Slumberland (McCay), 184, 279
Little Prince, The (Saint-Exupéry), 409
Little Review, The, 41, 112
Little Things, 266
Little Women (Alcott), 70, 85, 180, 266, 344, 379
Live at the Apollo (Wolk), 335
Liveright, Horace, 284
Lives of the Great Composers, The (Schonberg), 235
Living (Green), 14
Living End, The (Elkin), 76
Lo! (Fort), 31
Lobel, Arnold, 139, 383
Locke, John, 339
Lockridge, Ross, Jr., 77, 206
Locusts Have No King, The (Powell), 10
L’Oeuvre (Zola), 109
Lofting, Hugh, 19
Loitering with Intent (Spark), 203
Lolita (Nabokov), 6, 260, 361, 375
Lombardi, Vince, 398
London (Ackroyd), 381
London, Jack, 23, 117, 367
London Review of Books, 235
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 144
Long Ships, The (Bengtsson), 71
Longstocking, Pippi, 356, 399
Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe), 212
Looking Backward (Bellamy), 169
Looming Tower, The (Wright), 262
Loos, Anita, 93, 261
Lord, Walter, 319
“Lord Chandos Letter” (Hofmannsthal), 265
Lorde, Audre, 362
Lord of the Flies (Golding), 291
Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), 27, 43, 63, 161, 299
Loser, The (Bernhard), 253
Lost, 298
Lost in the City (Jones), 202
Lost Weekend, The (Jackson), 129
“Lottery, The” (Jackson), 200
Louis XVI, 218
Lovecraft, H. P., xiv, 5, 28, 74, 86, 94, 122, 134, 263
“Love Is Not a Pie” (Bloom), 264
Love Machine, The (Susann), 197
Love Medicine (Erdrich), 123
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The” (Eliot), 29
Lovett, Robert A., 380
Loving (Green), 14
Lowell, Amy, 275–76
Lowell, James Russell, 144
Lowell, Robert, 40, 72, 92, 132, 192, 272, 403
Lowry, Jan, 9, 347
Lowry, Lois, 91
Lowry, Malcolm, 9, 61, 129, 347, 381
Luce, Clare Booth, 81
Lucky Jim (Amis), 139, 176
Ludlum, Robert, 83, 96
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 109, 210
Lulu in Hollywood (Brooks), 142
Luncheon of the Boating P
arty (Renoir), 307
Luther, Martin, 57
Lyell, Frank H., 218
Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth and Coleridge), 221
Lytle, Andrew, 391
Maas, Peter, 42
Macauley, Robie, 339, 365
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 149
MacDonald, Betty, 46
Macdonald, Dwight, 323, 398
MacDonald, Jeffrey, 288
MacDonald, John D., 232
Macdonald, Ross, 47, 392
Macfarlane, Robert, 305
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 142, 389
MacInnes, Helen, 193
Macintyre, Ben, 306
Mackenzie, Compton, 153
Maclean, Norman, 402
Macmillan’s Magazine, 370
Macpherson, James, 25
Macready, William Charles, 149, 348
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 118, 167, 234, 280
Madame Claire (Ertz), 238
Mademoiselle, 165, 192
Madison, James, 208
Madison Square Garden, 42, 102
Maggie, a Girl of the Streets (Crane), 293
Magic Christian, The (Southern), 347
Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 68, 354, 407
Magnificent Ambersons, The (Tarkington), 347
Maguire, Gregory, 182, 282
Mahfouz, Naguib, 273, 325
Mailer, Norman, 36, 146, 266, 332, 346, 355, 373
Major Ozone’s Fresh Air (Herriman), 234
Malamud, Bernard, 89, 131, 187
Malcolm, Donald, 7
Malcolm, Janet, 277, 288
Malcolm X, 59, 166, 194
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 286
Malley, Ern, 231
Mallon, Thomas, 119
Malone Dies (Beckett), 190, 217
Malraux, André, 197, 245, 368
Maltese Falcon, The, 115
Manchurian Candidate, The (Condon), 220
Mankiewicz, Frank, 120
Mann, Heinrich, 290
Mann, Thomas, 68, 139, 164, 179, 255, 407
Mansfield, Katherine, 14, 50, 73, 110, 153, 219, 251, 310, 326, 405
Mantel, Hilary, 30, 214
Man Who Fell to Earth, The (Tevis), 252
Man Who Loved Children, The (Stead), 87
Man Who Watched Trains Go By, The (Simenon), 407
Man with Two Brains, The, 56
Maquet, Auguste, 75
Marcel, Gabriel, 245
March (Brooks), 70
March, The (Doctorow), 70
Marcus, Ben, 122
Marcus, Carol, 59
Marcus, Steven, 40
Marcus Aurelius, 88
Marcuse, Herbert, 237
Maréchal, Sylvain, 258
Marías, Javier, 297
Marie Antoinette, 218
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 44
Marjorie Morningstar (Wouk), 146
Markham, Beryl, 337
Markson, David, 177, 235
Marlantes, Karl, 106, 403
Marlette, Doug, 218
Marlowe, Christopher, 144, 169
Marquand, John P., 355
Marquard, Rube, 180
marriage, 9, 47, 128, 189, 191, 293, 331, 373, 394, 401, 409; bigamy, 162; courtship, 178, 283; elopement, 360; engagement, 26, 117, 130, 154, 339, 364; in fiction, 30, 92, 112, 135, 159, 167, 172, 174, 208, 227, 243, 262, 264, 269, 293, 313, 331; first meetings, 31, 64, 72, 159, 189, 304; honeymoons, 161, 167, 321; weddings, 8, 59, 73, 74, 108, 143, 155, 186, 203, 213, 267, 287, 302, 314, 324, 328, 338
