by Tom Nissley
Marriage (Wells), 304
Marrow of Tradition, The (Chesnutt), 151
Marsh, Ngaio, 128
Marshal, James, 164
Marshall, Paule, 114
Mars-Jones, Adam, 27
Martel, Yann, 117, 210
Martin, Don, 11
Martin, George R. R., 151, 297
Martin Amis (Bradford), 384
Martin Dressler (Millhauser), 274
Marx, Karl, 85, 144, 297
Masefield, John, 36
Mason, Bobbie Ann, 216
Mason, Charlotte L., 387
Mason & Dixon (Pynchon), 179
Massacre of Paris, The (Marlowe), 144
Master and Commander (O’Brian), 123
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Beck, Bertholle, and Child), 108, 327
Mather, Increase, 266
Matheson, Richard, 59
Mathews, Harry, 283
Mathews, T. H., 29
Matterhorn (Marlantes), 106
Matthiessen, F. O., 106
Matthiessen, Peter, 333
Maugham, Somerset, 265, 302, 395, 404
Mauldin, Bill, 27
Maupassant, Guy de, 118, 214, 248
Maupin, Armistead, 152
Maurice (Forster), 314, 318
Maurois, André, 238
Maus (Spiegelman), 165, 175, 386
Mauve Decade, The (Beer), 298
Maxwell, William, 24, 27, 152, 239
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 227
Mayes, Herbert R., 45
“May Magnificat, The” (Hopkins), 138
McAuley, James, 231
McBain, Ed, 214, 232
McCaffrey, Anne, 366
McCann, Colum, 250
McCarthy, Cormac, 184, 228, 311
McCarthy, Mary, 30, 40, 172, 293, 336
McCarthy, Tom, 219
McCay, Winsor, 184, 234, 279
McClelland, Jack, 319
McCloskey, Robert, 203
McClure, Michael, 318
McClure’s Magazine, 392
McCorkle, Jill, 215
McCourt, Frank, 227
McCoy, Horace, 119, 296
McCullers, Carson, 177, 243, 287, 306, 373
McCullough, Colleen, 174
McCullough, David, 170, 215
McDermid, Val, 177
McDermott, Alice, 200
McDowell, Arthur Sydney, 322
McElroy, Joseph, 264
McEwan, Ian, 131, 154, 194, 305, 354
McFarlane, Todd, 87
McGahern, John, 385
McGinley, Phyllis, 92
McGinniss, Joe, 288
McGovern, George, 120, 352
McGrath, Patrick, 381
McGuane, Thomas, 390
McInerney, Jay, 255
McKenney, Eileen, 401
McKenney, Ruth, 401
McLean, Bethany, 54
McLuhan, Marshall, 410
McManus, James, 157, 297
McMurtry, Larry, 176, 253
McNamara, Robert, 373, 380
McPhee, John, 79, 285
McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon (Mitchell), 118
McTeague (Norris), 58, 174
McWhirter, Norris, 289
McWhirter, Ross, 289
McWilliams, Carey, 200
Mead, Margaret, 17, 274, 360, 387
“Me and Miss Mandible” (Barthelme), 305
Means of Ascent, The (Caro), 272
“Meditation” (Roethke), 125
Meet Me in St. Louis, 56
Melville, Herman, xv, 14, 20, 40, 48, 58, 83, 88, 93, 105, 106, 124, 149, 212, 244, 283, 289, 305, 314, 336, 358, 359, 386, 395
Melville, Malcolm, 289
Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers), 243
Mémoires de Joséphine Baker, 244
Memoirs of Hadrian (Yourcenar), 29, 126
Memoirs of Hecate County (Wilson), 211
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (Freud), 127
Memory Chalet, The (Judt), 19
Menand, Louis, 26
Mencken, H. L., 101, 115, 281, 289, 329
Men of Good Will (Romains), 176
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 338
Meredith, George, 157, 267
Merkin, Daphne, 23
Merrill, James, 46, 74
Merton, Thomas, 36, 325
Messud, Claire, 170, 173
Metalious, Grace, 271, 285, 301, 311
“Metamorphosis, The” (Kafka), 107, 338
Metcalf, Ben, 122
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 145, 268, 322
Meyer, Ferdinand, 397
Meyer, George, 230
Meyer, Stephenie, 403
Mezzanine, The (Baker), 254
Michael Kohlhaas (Kleist), 93
Michaels, Leonard, 149
Micheaux, Oscar, 96
Michener, James A., 327
Middlemarch (Eliot), 8, 70, 313
Middlesex (Eugenides), 13
Middle Years, The (James), 329
Midnight in Paris, 336
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Berendt), 141
Midnight’s Children (Rushdie), 154, 258
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 60, 172
Miéville, China, 283
Mignon (Cain), 99
Mildred Pierce (Cain), 209
Mill, James, 196, 215
Mill, John Stuart, 159, 215
Millar, Kenneth. See Macdonald, Ross
Millar, Margaret, 47
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 61, 389
Millennium Trilogy (Larsson), 23, 48, 83
Miller, Arthur, 328
Miller, Frank, 32
Miller, Henry, 72, 147, 162, 403, 405, 408
Miller, Laura, 87
Miller, Merle, 22
Millet, Kate, 291
Millhauser, Steven, 246, 274
Milliner’s Hat Mystery, The (Thomson), 306
Million Little Pieces, A (Frey), 335
Mills, C. Wright, 91
Milne, A. A., 10, 23, 36, 211, 264, 396
Milne, Christopher Robin, 115, 125, 264
Miłosz, Czesław, 203
Milton, John, 353, 388
Mimesis (Auerbach), 327
Minarik, Else Holmelund, 290
Mind of the Raven, The (Heinrich), 315
Minor Characters (Johnson), 281
Miracle in the Andes (Parrado), 393
Mirecourt, Eugène de, 75
Misérables, Les (Hugo), 270
Mishima, Yukio, 349, 370
Mississippi River, 105, 120
Miss Lonelyhearts (West), 118, 401
Mitchell, David, 17, 67, 76, 222
Mitchell, John, 291
Mitchell, Joseph, 118, 163
Mitchell, Margaret, 72, 209, 259, 260, 293, 353
Mitford, Jessica, 230
Mitford, Nancy, 203
Mitterand, François, 97
Moby-Dick (Melville), 20, 58, 336, 343, 359, 395
Mockingbird (Tevis), 252
Moes, Władysław, 165
Molière, 20
Molloy (Beckett), 190, 217
Momaday, N. Scott, 66, 169, 236
Moncrieff, C. K. Scott, 67
Moneyball (Lewis), 177
Monk, The (Lewis), 62
Monroe, Harriet, 82, 261, 303
Montaigne, Michel de, 67, 131, 261, 289, 290, 339
Monteith, Charles, 291
Montgomery, L. M., 71, 129, 213, 309, 374
Monthly Magazine, 358
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (Adams), 352
Moo (Smiley), 287
Moody, Rick, 345, 368
Moorcock, Michael, 397
Moore, Alan, 363
Moore, Brian, 148, 268, 311
Moore, George, 170
Moore, Lorrie, 18, 297
Moore, Marianne, 44, 102, 373, 387
Moore, Tom, 81, 156
Moortown Diary (Hughes), 39, 56
Moravia, Albert, 303
Morley, John, 247
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Morris, Mowbray, 370
Morris, William, 314
Morrison, Toni, 17, 33, 38, 57, 294, 350
Morte d’Arthur, Le (Malory), 238
Mortimer, Edward, 21
Mosley, Walter, 198
mothers, 14, 22, 60, 72, 130, 138, 145, 148, 245, 337, 386, 394; childbirth, 160, 287, 387; death of, 11, 24, 77, 97, 115, 138, 195, 294, 337, 373; in fiction, 9, 77, 91, 113, 138, 152, 161, 198, 209, 255, 264, 266, 294, 406; writers as, 160, 287, 313, 387
Mourning Diary (Barthes), 97, 337
Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway), 364
Moviegoer, The (Percy), 44, 70, 71
Mowat, Farley, 162, 220
Mo Yan, 56
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 211
Mr. Pim Passes By (Milne), 10
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), xiv, 259, 273, 367
Ms., 90, 258
Ms. Hempel Chronicles (Bynum), 277
Muir, Edwin, 389
Muir, Frank, 7
Muir, John, 126, 145
Multitude of Sins, A (Ford), 73
Mumford, Lewis, 9
Munro, Alice, 218, 225, 274, 296
Munro, H. H. See Saki
Murakami, Haruki, 17, 106, 196
Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki), 25
“Murders in the Rue Morgue, The” (Poe), 236
Murdoch, Iris, 11, 15, 47, 399
Murray, Albert, 124, 151, 286
Murray, John, 156
Murry, John Middleton, 73, 301
Museum of Innocence, The (Pamuk), xiv, 132
Music for Torching (Homes), 169
Music of Chance, The (Auster), 271
Musil, Robert, 120
Mutis, Álvaro, 86
My Dark Places (Ellroy), 195
Myers, Walter Dean, 255
My Father and Myself (Ackerley), 332
My Friend Leonard (Frey), 335
My Garden (Book): (Kincaid), 105
My Lai massacre, 169, 357
Myrdal, Gunnar, 156
My Sister Eileen (McKenney), 401
Mysterious Affair at Styles, The (Christie), 225, 238
“Mystery of Marie Roget, The” (Poe), 236
My Struggle (Knausgaard), 66
My Word!, 7
Nabokov, Vera, 52, 182
Nabokov, Vladimir, xiv, 6, 42, 53, 98, 127, 182, 210, 213, 260, 303, 361, 375
Nádas, Peter, 325
Naipaul, V. S., 244, 260, 306
Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer), 146
Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 40
Nałkowska, Zofia, 121
Napoleon, 25, 67, 135, 160, 191, 255, 278, 381
Narayan, R. K., 152
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 280
Nash, Ogden, 262
Nash’s Magazine, 121
Nast, Condé, 296
Nathan, George Jean, 113
National Geographic, 299
Native Son (Wright), 322, 356
Natural, The (Malamud), 187
Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn, The (White), 391
“Nature” (Emerson), 145
Naylor, Gloria, 30
Necessity of Atheism, The (Shelley), 96
Nemerov, Howard, 213
Némirovsky, Irène, 63, 102, 173, 194, 219
Neruda, Pablo, 201, 220
Nesbit, Evelyn, 374
Netherland (O’Neill), 246
Never Cry Wolf (Mowat), 162
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, 118
Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro), 74
Newby, Eric, 385
Newby, P. H., 225
New Centurions, The (Wambaugh), 80
New Grub Street (Gissing), 345, 367, 384
Newjack (Conover), 410
Newman, John Henry, 254
New Republic, The, 44, 147, 254
New Statesman and Nation, 350
Newsweek, 130, 225
Newton, Isaac, 91, 160, 263, 323
“New Year Letter” (Auden), 5
New York (magazine), 116
New Yorker, The, 9, 11, 18, 27, 31, 40, 47, 65, 107, 116, 118, 142, 160, 197, 200, 208, 230, 249, 262, 263, 268, 284, 293, 302, 323, 329, 332, 362, 388, 390
New York Giants (baseball), 133, 180, 195, 314
New York Giants (football), 19, 356
New York Review of Books, 19, 40, 63, 254
New York Times bestseller list, 169, 197, 230, 236, 263, 271, 284, 396
New York Times Magazine, 22, 195
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, 10
Nicholas I, 401
Nicholls, David, 223
Nicholls, Rev. Arthur, 154, 331
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 8, 151, 184, 268, 326, 407
Niffenegger, Audrey, 201
“Nightingale, The” (Andersen), 322
Night of January 16th (Rand), 21
Night Rider (Warren), 170
Nightwood (Barnes), 235, 283, 287
Nin, Anaïs, 19, 72, 162, 233, 287, 313
1984 (Orwell), 141, 181, 198
1920 Diary (Babel), 222
Nixon, Richard M., 21, 134, 173, 250, 336
No Big Deal (Fidrych and Clark), 386
Noble, James Ashcroft, 28
Nordstrom, Ursula, 133, 161, 232
Norris, Frank, 58, 76, 174
Northanger Abbey (Austen), 113
North Pole, 114
Norton, Andre, 88
Notes (Coppola), 326
Notes from the Century Before (Hoagland), 235
“Notes of a Native Son” (Baldwin), 237
Notes of a Son and Brother (James), 79
Nouvelle revue française, 16
Oates, Joyce Carol, 21, 82, 189
“Oath” (Smith), 49
Obama, Barack, 247
Obasan (Kogawa), 161
O’Brian, Patrick, 7, 123, 228
O’Brien, Edna, 394
O’Brien, Fitz-James, 40
O’Brien, Flann, 78, 89, 106, 237, 298
O’Brien, Tim, 312
Obsession, The (Levin), 188
“Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An” (Bierce), 221
O’Connor, Flannery, xv, 57, 96, 118, 183, 339, 403
Odets, Clifford, 257
Ōe, Kenzaburō, 186
O’Faolain, Nuala, 148
“Of Friendship” (Montaigne), 261
O’Hagan, Andrew, 392
O’Hara, Frank, 190, 233, 270
O’Hara, John, 116, 405
Okrent, Daniel, 329
Old Farmer’s Almanac, The, 17
Old Jules (Sandoz), 188
Olds, Sharon, 364
Oliver, Mary, 287
Olsen, Regine, 364
Olsen, Tillie, 6
Olson, Charles, 406
Omnivore’s Dilemma, The (Pollan), 5, 84
O’Nan, Stewart, 399
On Beauty (Smith), 365
Once in a Lifetime (Hart and Kaufman), 301
Once Upon a Distant War (Prochnau), 203
On Chesil Beach (McEwan), 131
Ondaatje, Michael, 257, 288, 289
On Drink (Amis), 176
One Day (Nicholls), 223
One Day a Year (Wolf), 304
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn), 331
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey), 406
One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez), 330
O’Neill, Eugene, 59, 327
O’Neill, Jamie, 88
O’Neill, Joseph, 246
O’Neill, Oona, 59
1,000,000 Years B.C., 134
On Human Bondage (Maugham), 404
Onion Field, The (Wambaugh), 80
“On Keeping a Notebook” (Didion), 409
On Native Grounds (Kazin), 99
O’Nolan, Brian. See O’Brien, Flann
“On the Death of Mrs. Johnson” (Swift), 33
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 16, 99, 186, 328, 368, 369
On the Road (Kerouac), 127, 218, 266, 281, 406
“On This Day
I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year” (Byron), 27
“On Voluntary Slavery” (La Boétie), 261
Open (Agassi), 164
Open City (Cole), 297
Open Society and Its Enemies, The (Popper), 336
Operation Mincemeat (Macintyre), 306
Orchid Thief, The (Orlean), 379, 400
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska, 300
Order of Things, The (Les mots et les choses) (Foucault), 168
Ordinary Seaman, The (Goldman), 197
Oregon Trail, The (Parkman), 168
orgone box, 42, 222, 266
Original Bliss (Kennedy), 23
Orlando (Woolf), 316, 322
Orlean, Susan, 208, 379, 400
Orton, Joe, 133, 252
Orwell, George, 26, 42, 55, 119, 141, 181, 198, 238, 253, 285, 295, 321, 398, 403
Osborne, John, 403
Oscar Wilde (Harris), 301
Ossian, 25
Othello (Shakespeare), 346
Our Mutual Friend (Dickens), 182
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter (Roosevelt), 355
Outlaw, Wyatt, 65
Out of Africa (Dinesen), 148
Out of Sheer Rage (Dyer), 282
Out of Sight (Leonard), 7
Outsiders, The (Hinton), 270
Ovid, 91
Owen, Harold, 54
Owen, Wilfred, 349
Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, The (Muir), 7
Oxford-Duden Japanese Pictorial Dictionary, 91
Oxford English Dictionary, 304
Oz, Amos, 11, 143
Ozick, Cynthia, 122
Packer, Z. Z., 327
“Pafko at the Wall” (DeLillo), 314
Page, Jimmy, 42
Paine, Thomas, 15, 184, 287
Palahniuk, Chuck, 60
Pale King, The (Wallace), 95, 104, 105
Paley, Grace, 265, 390
Pallandt, Nina van, 53
Palliser, Charles, 391
Pamuk, Orhan, xiv, 132, 180
Pancake, Breece D’J, 113
Paolini, Christopher, 362
Paretsky, Sara, 181
Parini, Jay, 332
Paris Review, 300, 386
Paris Stories (Gallant), 208
Parker, Dorothy, 10, 180
Parker, Hershel, xv
Parker, Robert B., 294
Parkman, Francis, 168
Parliament of Fowls (Chaucer), 38
Parrado, Nando, 393
Parrot and Olivier in America (Carey), 150
Party Going (Green), 14
Pascal, Blaise, 262
Passage to India, A (Forster), 33
Pasternak, Boris, 169
Pastors and Masters (Compton-Burnett), 193, 317
Patchett, Ann, 333, 381
Paterson (Williams), 66, 192
Paton, Alan, 117
Pattern Recognition (Gibson), 180
Patterson, James, 93
Paulsen, Gary, 156
Pavannes and Divisions (Pound), 260
Paz, Octavio, 102
Peabody, Elizabeth, 250
Peace, David, 229
Peake, Mervyn, 144, 362
