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A Reader's Book of Days

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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

 

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