by Tom Nissley
Peanuts (Schulz), 114, 121, 187, 313, 393, 400
Peary, Robert, 114
Peau de chagrin, La (Balzac), 298
Peden, William, 116
Pekar, Harvey, 220, 410
Pelecanos, George, 57, 109, 206
Penrose, Roger, 251
People, 75, 263
People of the Deer (Mowat), 162
Pepys, Samuel, xv, 62, 82, 116, 209, 285
Percy, Walker, 44, 70, 71, 149, 386
Perec, Georges, 74, 196
Père Goriot (Balzac), 336
Perelman, S. J., 328
“Perfect Day for Bananafish, A” (Salinger), 27
Periodic Table, The (Levi), 397
Perkins, Maxwell, 82, 115, 190, 212, 217, 254, 364
Perlman, Elliot, 263
Perrotta, Tom, 85, 126, 256
Personal Matter, A (Ōe), 186
Personal Memoirs (Grant), 111
“Personal Poem” (O’Hara), 270
“Personism: A Manifesto” (O’Hara), 270
Persuasion (Austen), 39
Pessl, Marisha, 294
Pessoa, Fernando, 79, 186, 300, 363
Peterson, Roger Tory, 132, 236
Petit, Philippe, 250
Petrarch, 131, 227, 389
Petry, Ann, 133
Peyton Place (Metalious), 163, 271, 301, 311, 313
Phelps, Robert, 17, 272, 352
Phillips, Arthur, 183
Phillips, Caryl, 84
Phillips, Jayne Anne, 227
Phillips, Julia, 6
Phillips, Moses, 144
Phillips, Pauline, 212
Physiology of Taste, The (Brillat-Savarin), 220
Picasso, Pablo, 90, 286
Pickup, The (Sullivan), 395
Picture (Ross), 268
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde), 57, 335
Pictures from an Institution (Jarrell), 139
Pierre (Melville), 40
“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” (Borges), 307
Pilcher, Rosamunde, 299
Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), 379
Pilot, The (Cooper), 357
Pinck, Dan, 74
Pinker, Steven, 295
Pinkwater, Daniel, 360
Pinter, Harold, 403
Pioneers, The (Cooper), 357
Pirandello, Luigi, 389
Pirenne, Henri, 94
Pirsig, Robert M., 283
Pisan Cantos (Pound), 163
Plague, The (Camus), 146, 245
Plain, Belva, 323
Plainsong (Haruf), 314
Plath, Sylvia, 50, 64, 103, 165, 192, 338
Plato, 213
Playboy, 147, 166
Player Piano (Vonnegut), 63
Plimpton, George, 14, 89
Plot Against America, The (Roth), 67
Pnin (Nabokov), 42
Poe, Edgar Allan, 24, 26, 56, 77, 91, 140, 155, 165, 212, 236, 247, 259, 318, 320, 364
“Poem on the Lisbon Disaster” (Voltaire), 346
Poems and Ballads (Swinburne), 247
Poems by Two Brothers (Tennyson and Tennyson), 125
Poet in New York, A (García Lorca), 279
Poetry, 35, 82, 261
Poetry Review, 374
Poet’s Pub (Linklater), 238
Poirier, Richard, 258
Political Justice (Godwin), 164
Pollan, Michael, 5, 45, 84
Polo, Marco, 14
Poniatowska, Elena, 158
Poor No More (Ruark), 7
Poor Richard’s Almanack (Franklin), 4
Pope, Alexander, 83, 160, 187
Popeye, 22
Popper, Karl, 336
Popp Upon Pope, A, 187
Portable Faulkner, The, 134, 144, 252
Porter, Katherine Anne, 154
Porter, William Sydney. See Henry, O.
Portinari, Beatrice, 181
Portis, Charles, 311
Portnoy’s Complaint (Roth), 72, 197
Portrait of a Lady, The (James), 79, 170, 385
Positively Fifth Street (McManus), 157
Possessed, The (Batuman), 222
Possession (Byatt), 194, 332
Postman, Neil, 316
Postman Always Rings Twice, The (Cain), 176
Postmortem (Cornwell), 180
Postwar (Judt), 19
Potok, Chaim, 231
Potter, Beatrix, 31, 89, 236, 282, 395
Pound, Ezra, 29, 35, 163, 170, 260, 261, 346, 352
Powell, Anthony, 99, 214
Powell, Dawn, 10, 359
Powell, John Wesley, 273
Powell, Padgett, 130
Powers, Richard, 191
Powers, Tim, 68
Pragmatism (James), 265
Prairie, The (Cooper), 357
Prayer for Owen Meany, A (Irving), 403
Prescott, Oliver, 146, 247, 261
Prévost, Abbé, 402
Price, Reynolds, 25
Price, Richard, 173, 323
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 245, 371, 384, 403
Priestley, J. B., 178
Primary Colors (Klein), 225
Prince, The (Machiavelli), 389
Principia Mathematica (Newton), 160
prison and jail, 76, 133, 150, 154, 163, 179, 219, 224, 278, 331, 352, 391, 398, 410; debtor’s, 59, 249, 340; escapes, 7, 9, 67; protest, 94, 121, 200, 258, 408; released, 106, 232, 284, 330, 335
Pritchett, V. S., 55
prizes, 77, 102, 188; Academy Award, 333; (Man) Booker Prize, 15, 30, 49, 157, 194, 210, 350; Guggenheim Fellowship, 99, 398; Hubert Church Memorial Award, 405; Hugo Award, 6, 54; National Book Award, 44, 49, 175, 230, 364; Newbery Medal, 132; Nobel Prize, 15, 51, 132, 140, 148, 186, 190, 252, 322, 325, 349; Observer short-story prize, 400, 402; Pulitzer Prize, 65, 70, 117, 157, 186, 203, 208, 262, 274, 287, 364, 386, 393; Tournament of Books, 67
Prochnau, William, 203
Professor, The (Bronté), 212
Prokosch, Frederic, 175
Proulx, Annie, 197, 265, 371
Proust, Marcel, 16, 60, 80, 118, 145, 168, 218, 257, 307, 363
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Bangs), 110
Public Burning, The (Coover), 21, 173
Puig, Manuel, 230
Pulitzer, Joseph, 340
Pullman, Philip, 96
Pulphead (Sullivan), 295
Punch, 334
Purdy, James, 84
Pushkin, Alexander, 32, 380
Put Out More Flags (Waugh), 23
Puzo, Mario, 269
Pye, Michael, 88
Pyle, Ernie, 123, 396
Pylon (Faulkner), 101
Pym, Barbara, 16, 91, 128, 242, 243, 391
Pynchon, Thomas, 80, 147, 179, 242, 267
Queenan, Joe, 239
Queen Mab (Shelley), 158
Queen’s Gambit, The (Tevis), 252
Queneau, Raymond, 90, 225
Quest for Corvo, The (Symons), 337
Quicksand (Larsen), 354
Quiet American, The (Greene), 393
Quindlen, Anna, 216
Quinn, Anthony (writer), 364
Quinn, Paul, 179
Rabbit Is Rich (Updike), 196
Rabbit Redux (Updike), 196, 224, 395
Rabbit, Run (Updike), 71, 224, 395
Rabelais, François, 114
Rachel Papers, The (Amis), 384
Racine, Jean, 220
Rackham, Arthur, 283
Rafferty, Terrence, 199
Rafinesque, Constantine, 295
Ragtime (Doctorow), 28, 93, 114
Rahv, Philip, 40
Raintree County (Lockridge), 77, 206
Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry), 47
Rakoff, David, 149, 372
Ralph 124C41+ (Gernsback), 259
Rand, Ayn, 21, 77, 153, 360
Rand McNally Auto Chum, 120
Rape of the Lock, The (Pope), 83
Raskin, Ellen, 251
Ratcliffe, Michael, 318
; Rather, Dan, 315
Raven and Other Poems, The (Poe), 91, 364
Ravens in Winter (Heinrich), 39
Raw, 165
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 393
Raymond, Alex, 34
Read, Piers Paul, 393
Réage, Pauline, 300
Real Tadzio, The (Adair), 165
Re-awakening, The (Levi), 32
Reborn (Sontag), 139
Rechy, John, 58
Record of a School (Peabody), 250
Red Alert (George), 347
Red and the Black, The (Stendhal), 135
Red Badge of Courage, The (Crane), 70, 268, 332
Red Cavalry (Babel), 222
Red Harvest (Hammett), 40
“Red-Headed League, The” (Doyle), 320
Red Rackham’s Treasure (Hergé), 223
Red Rover, The (Cooper), 357
Reed, Ishmael, 61, 73
Reed, John, 96, 311
Reed, Rex, 251
Reich, Wilhelm, 42, 222, 266, 348
Reine Margot, La (Dumas), 135
Religio Medici (Browne), 212
Remainder (McCarthy), 219
Remarque, Erich Maria, 302
Rembrandt van Rijn, 21
“Renascence” (Millay), 389
Renault, Mary, 281
Rendell, Ruth, 56
“Report on the Barnhouse Effect” (Vonnegut), 338
Republic (Plato), 213
Requiem for a Nun (Faulkner), 336
Return of Martin Guerre, The (Davis), 289
Return of the King, The (Tolkien), 27
Return of the Native, The (Hardy), 350
Revolt in the Desert (Lawrence), 158
Revolution, American, 15, 208
Revolution, French, 6, 205, 218, 348
Revolution, Russian, 64, 311
Revolver, 281
Rexroth, Kenneth, 179
Rey, H. A., 229, 293
Rey, Margret, 229
Rhys, Jean, 88, 153, 331, 350
Rice, Anne, 315
Rich, Adrienne, 40, 155
Richard III (Shakespeare), 84, 214
Richardson, Dorothy, 156
Richardson, Maurice Lane, 360
Richardson, Samuel, 212
Richler, Mordecai, 211, 319
Richter, Conrad, 324
Richter, Gerhard, 379
Ricketts, Ed, 147
Ricks, Christopher, 395
Riddle of the Sands, The (Childers), 290, 369
Riders in the Chariot (White), 388
Rieff, Philip, 8
Right Stuff, The, 229
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 56, 151, 383, 408
Rimbaud, Arthur, 152, 166, 218, 331, 352, 355
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The” (Coleridge), 316, 358
Rings of Saturn, The (Sebald), 21, 212, 241–42, 243
Ripley, Robert, 166
Ritter, Lawrence, 180
Road, The (McCarthy), 311
Road to Wigan Pier, The (Orwell), 42
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 261
Robbins, Harold, 325
Robbins, Tom, 230
Roberts, Nora, 321
Robinson, Marilynne, 117, 181, 371
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 120, 155, 184
Rochester, Earl of, 397
Rock Crystal (Stifter), 404
Rockefeller, John D., 66
Roethke, Theodore, 125, 132, 244
Rogers, Mary, 236
Rogers, Will, 349
Roget, Peter Mark, 289
Rolfe, Frederick. See Corvo, Baron
Rolling Stone, 110, 120, 177, 334, 346, 354
Rolling Stones, 195, 350
Romains, Jules, 176
Rombauer, Irma, 341
Romola (Eliot), 155
Room Temperature (Baker), 254
Roosevelt, Theodore, 74, 164, 355, 369
Roots (Haley), 306, 328
Rosemary’s Baby (Levin), 198
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 173, 192, 200, 222
Ross, Harold, 47, 385
Ross, Lillian, 160, 268
Rossetti, Christina, 408
Rosy Posy—Mama’s Girl (Herriman), 234
Roth, Henry, 324
Roth, Joseph, 279
Roth, Philip, 67, 72, 90, 179, 195, 197, 284, 379
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 201
Rowling, J. K., 178, 199, 201, 235, 239, 296, 342
Roy, Arundhati, 369
Roy, Gabrielle, 221
Royko, Mike, 134, 143
Ruark, Robert, 7
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The (FitzGerald), 380
Ruby, Jack, 304
Rule, Ann, 313
Rumi, 307
Runaway Bunny, The (Brown), 358
Running in the Family (Ondaatje), 257
Runyon, Damon, 389
Rush, Norman, 335
Rushdie, Salman, 53, 154, 192, 258, 324, 325
Ruskin, John, 25, 356
Russ, Joanna, 134, 267
Russell, Bertrand, 289
Russo, Richard, 223
Ryder (Barnes), 287
Sacco, Joe, 183
Sacks, Oliver, 139, 217, 233
Sackville-West, Vita, 80, 249, 316
Sacred and Profane Love Machine, The (Murdoch), 11
Safarnama (Khusraw), 76
Safe Area Gorazde (Sacco), 183
Safire, William, 304
Sagan, Carl, 354
Sagan, Françoise, 301
Sage, Lorna, 288
Said, Edward, 297
Sailing Alone Around the World (Slocum), 129
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 145, 158
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 202, 262, 409
Saint Genet (Sartre), 224
Saki, 359
Salih, Tayeb, 57, 259
Salinger, J. D., 6, 27, 32, 40, 54, 59, 116, 224, 226, 286, 321, 379
Salten, Felix, 319
Salter, James, 183, 352
Samuels, Charles Joseph, 185
Sand, George, 133, 181
Sandburg, Carl, 109, 140, 157
Sand County Almanac, A (Leopold), 4, 41, 344
Sanders, Ed, 251
Sandoz, Mari, 150, 188
Sanford, John, 76
“SantaLand Diaries” (Sedaris), 378
Sarah (Leroy), 342
Saramago, José, 191
Saro-Wiwa, Ken, 355
Saroyan, William, 59, 179, 274
Sarton, May, 114, 165, 224
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 90, 194, 224, 252
Sassoon, Siegfried, 278
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), 53, 325
Satrapi, Marjane, 367
Saturday Evening Post, 115, 131, 286
Saturday Night (Orlean), 208
Saturday Review of Literature, 316
Saunders, George, 381, 389
Savage, Dan, 318
Savage, Richard, 244
Savage Detectives, The (Bolaño), 363
Savile, Sir Henry, 52
Sayers, Dorothy L., 82, 133, 164, 382, 396
“Scandal in Bohemia, A” (Doyle), 92
Scandella, Domenico, 46
Scanlan’s Monthly, 141
Scarry, Richard, 135
Schama, Simon, 52
Scharnhorst, Gary, 45
Schiller, Lawrence, 346
Schott, Ben, 165
Schreber, Daniel Paul, 127
Schreber Case, The (Freud), 127
Schreiner, Olive, 390
Schubert, Franz, 357
Schulberg, Budd, 248
Schulz, Bruno, 114, 121
Schulz, Charles M., xii, 51, 114, 126, 187, 313, 371, 393, 400
Schumacher, E. F., 281
Schuyler, James, 117
Schwartz, Delmore, 219, 333
Schwartz-Bart, André, 307
Schwartzwelder, John, 230
Scieszka, Jon, 285
Scott, A. O., 348
Scott, Paul, 72
Scott, Walter, 43, 258
Screw, 174
Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 187, 230
Seabiscuit (Hillenbrand), 82
Sea of Cortez (Steinbeck and Ricketts), 147
Season of Migration to the North (Salih), 259
Sea, the Sea, The (Murdoch), 15
Sebald, W. G., 21, 101, 157, 184, 212, 241–42, 243, 393, 409
Second Sex, The (Beauvoir), 98
Secret Agent X-9 (Hammett), 34
Secret History, The (Tartt), 334
Secret of the Old Clock, The (Keene), 303
Secret of the Unicorn, The (Hergé), 223
Sedaris, Amy, 100
Sedaris, David, 378, 405
Seduction of the Innocent (Wertham), 100
Segal, Erich, 189
Segar, E. C., 22
Selassie, Haile, 394
Selby, Hubert, Jr., 131
Selby, John, 57
Seligman, Craig, 229
Sellers, Peter, 347
Selznick, Brian, 222
Semi-Tough (Jenkins), 19
Semple, Maria, 392
Sendak, Maurice, 129, 147, 183
Sense and Sensibility (Austen), 130
“September, 1819” (Wordsworth), 275-6
September 11, 2001, 250, 276, 288, 297, 324
“September 1, 1939” (Auden), 276
“September, 1918” (Lowell), 275–76
“Seraph and the Zambesi, The” (Spark), 402
Serling, Rod, 404
Serpico (Maas), 42
Serpico, Frank, 42
Service, Robert W., 288
Seth, Vikram, 193
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 257
Seuss, Dr., 19, 73, 151, 163, 213, 301
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence), 158, 318, 381
Seven Samurai, The, 91
Seven Storey Mountain, The (Merton), 325
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Perlman), 263
Sewell, Anna, 101
Sex and the Single Girl (Brown), 90, 302
Sexton, Anne, 315
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Kinsey), 77
Shaara, Michael, 144, 208, 210
Shackleton, Ernest, 408
Shadid, Anthony, 55, 88
Shadow of Blooming Grove, The (Russell), 213
Shakespeare (Bloom), 83
Shakespeare, William, 36, 60, 69–70, 71, 84, 85, 103, 107, 128, 137, 149, 151, 152, 172, 181, 183, 189, 214, 217, 275, 288, 299, 346, 353, 373, 398, 406
Shand, Alexander Innes, 355
Shange, Ntozake, 329
Sharpe, Tom, 101
Shaw, Artie, 328
Shaw, George Bernard, 68, 83, 147, 158, 234, 268, 289, 318, 347
Shaw, Irwin, 155
Shawn, William, 18, 116, 160, 387
Sheed, Wilfrid, 24, 98
Sheehan, Neil, 203
Sheldon, Alice. See Tiptree, James, Jr.
Sheldon, Sidney, 35
Shelley, Mary, 40, 82, 189, 267, 273, 287, 313, 316, 345
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 96, 158, 189, 216, 267, 313, 316, 366
Shepard, E. H., 95, 264
Shepard, Sam, 350
Shepheardes Calender, The (Spenser), 4
Shepherd, Jean, 244, 327, 378
Shilts, Randy, 56
Shining, The (King), 310
Shipping News, The (Proulx), 371
shipwrecks, 155, 222, 227, 254, 293, 351
