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Sue Kaufman - Diary of a Mad Housewife , 1967 five quotes:

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Anne Richardson Roiphe – Up the Sandbox, 1970 A (164 word!)sentence that works nicely as a feminist response to the Bellow / Roth Jewish American (male) Writer style:

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Private Eye, 19 October 1962 Aesop Revisited by Willie Rushton and Christopher Booker The Snob's Dick Barton - satirical comic strip of the life of Ian Fleming ukjarry.livejournal.com/6998.html

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GKC - Man Who Was Thursday The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars."... most of [---]'s right-hand men are South African and American millionaires

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Alfred Kazin, The Atlantic, Aug 1968

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Slightly morbid reason, but maybe the most appropriate horror films to watch this Valentine’s Day are The Wicker Man and Robin Redbreast as it’s the 80th anniversary of the murder of Charles Walton in Lower Quinton – ground zero of a vein of Folk Horror. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

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Barbara Pym, A Glass of Blessings, 1958

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Richard McKenna - Casey Agonistes / The Sand Pebbles Journey With a Little Man (autobiographical essay) pulpflakes.com/blog/2024/01... good biographical summary /intro from posthumous collection www.carolinaalumnireview.com/carolinaalum...

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Pynchon in V (1963) neatly summarising Frank Wheeler in Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road (1961)

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1973 Panther paperback of "The Nephew" by James Purdy: last couple of pages list "Other Panthers for Your Enjoyment", but one of those pages is headed: American Violence indicating a rather specific readerly taste

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He could not forgive God for not existing. Peter De Vries, The Blood of the Lamb, 1961

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