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10 best books like The Portable Faulkner (William Faulkner): Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol), Where the Rivers Flow North, One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner, Toys in the Attic, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, Lilith, Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century, Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot, The Rise of Life on Earth, Selected Tales and Sketches

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)
AuthorBreanne Fahs
ISBN1558618481
Too drastic, too crazy, too "out there," too early, too late, too damaged, too much—Valerie Solanas has been dismissed but never forgotten. She has become, unwittingly, a figurehead for women's unexpressed rage, and stands at the center of many worlds. She inhabited Andy Warhol's Factory scene,...
Where the Rivers Flow North
AuthorHoward Frank Mosher
ISBN1584653639
The stories of Where the Rivers Flow North are “superior work, rich in texture and character,” says the Wall Street Journal; “the novella is brilliantly done.” That novella, the title story of the collection, was also made into a feature film starring Rip Torn and Michael J. Fox. These six stories,...
One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner
AuthorJay Parini
ISBN0060935553
“Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It’s an eye-opener. Anecdotal without being tawdry, analytical without being academic, it captures the essence of Faulkner’s life with the narrative drive of a novel.” — Houston Chronicle

“A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not...
Toys in the Attic
AuthorLillian Hellman
ISBN0822211637
I wasn't really thrilled with this play and I think it's flatness on paper can only be fixed by really good acting. I had heard this was inspired by Chekhov and initially it definitely echoes Three Sisters - with the sisters talking about a trip to Europe that never happens. But the play is spoiled by extremely...
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
AuthorVirginia Spencer Carr
ISBN0820325228
The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented,...
Lilith
AuthorJ.R. Salamanca
this is, without question, one of the most haunting books that I've ever read. I just thought about it again, and I became unsettled again. I got a literal shiver. This is a fantastic read. It is like Lolita, but the story has a better narrative arc and a more dramatic feeling instead of satirical. This book...
Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century
AuthorRobert Penn Warren
ISBN0440378648
Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories...
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot
AuthorCarole Seymour-Jones
ISBN0385499930
This astonishing portrait of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of poet T.S. Eliot, gives a voice to the woman who, for seventeen years, had shared a unique literary partnership with Eliot but who was scapegoated for the failure of the marriage and all but obliterated from historical record. In so doing, Painted...
The Rise of Life on Earth
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0811212130
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches...
Selected Tales and Sketches
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected...
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
AuthorR.A. Robinson
ISBN0985399538
After the death of his father, Rich Kid takes his destructive, malicious, and loyal team of hustlers, known amongst them-selves as The Family, to the next level of thuggin. Using his relationships within the drug distribution realm, Richard catapults his growing empire, taking down anyone who stands...
Eudora Welty
AuthorSuzanne Marrs
ISBN0151009147
I heard mediocre things about this when it came out so I didn't bother, but I found it on a sale table so picked it up and found out for myself that it is mediocre.

It's useful for facts facts facts, and so it will become yet another one of those bios I flip through the index to find out what I want to find...
Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa
AuthorColin Grant
ISBN0195367944
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer...
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
AuthorJerrold E. Hogle
ISBN0521794668
Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic...
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories
AuthorNella Larsen
ISBN0385721005
A light-skinned beauty who spends years passing for white finds herself dangerously drawn to an old friend's Harlem neighborhood. A restless young mulatto tries desperately to find a comfortable place in a world in which she sees herself as a perpetual outsider. A mother's confrontation with tragedy...
State of Grace
AuthorJoy Williams
ISBN0679726195
Nominated for the National Book Award in 1974, this haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness. It is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than...
The Lottery and Other Stories; The Haunting of Hill House; We Have Always Lived in the Castle
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN0965011798
"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse." Jackson's characters-mostly unloved daughters...
Dorothy Dandridge
AuthorDonald Bogle
ISBN1567430341
Dorothy Dandridge -- like Marilyn and Liz--was a dream goddess of the fifties. All audiences ever had to do was take one look at her -- in a nightclub, on television, or in the movies -- and they were hooked. She was unforgettable, Hollywood's first full-fledged African American movie star.

This...
The Portable Henry James
AuthorHenry James
ISBN0142437670
Henry James wrote with an imperial elegance of style, whether his subjects were American innocents or European sophisticates, incandescent women or their vigorous suitors. His omniscient eye took in the surfaces of cities, the nuances of speech, dress, and manner, and, above all, the microscopic...
The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
AuthorF. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN0684717379
A selection of twenty-eight of Fitzgerald's finest stories, representing all periods of his career.

I. Early Success
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
The Ice Palace
May Day
Winter Dreams
"The Sensible Thing"
Absolution

II. Glamour...
The Collected Short Stories
AuthorJean Rhys
ISBN0393306259
3.5/5 I have never gone without food for longer than five days, so I cannot amuse you any longer.

How rum some English people are! They ask to be shocked and long to be shocked and hope to be shocked, but if you really shock them...how shocked they are!

But when I discovered that though...
Great American Short Stories
AuthorMary Stegner
ISBN0440330602
A well-composed anthology of American Short Fiction. Wallace and Mary Stegner, have done a commendable effort, in attempting to present stories, that are representative of the progressive stages of development of the form in America. Stegners also provide an informed introductory essay, which...
The Complete Navarone 4-Book Collection: The Guns of Navarone, Force Ten From Navarone, Storm Force from Navarone, Thunderbolt from Navarone
AuthorAlistair MacLean
The Guns of Navarone and its three sequels, in which the same characters are sent on other wartime missions, together in one volume for the first time to mark the 50th anniversary of the original book .THE GUNS OF NAVARONE
Mallory, Miller and Andrea are united into a lethally effective team. Their...
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