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Literary
Kicks maintained by Levi Asher.
By far the most interesting site I have seen on the web. Mostly
concerned with the Beats, but much more than just the usual trinity of
Kerouac,
Ginsberg, and
Burroughs.
Neal Cassady, secret hero to the best
minds of his generation and role model to
Hunter S. Thompson,
Ken Kesey,
and a part of myself kept repressed by a protestant upbring and the
rules for
promotion and tenure of the University of South Carolina, is given
his due as a main catalyst of the Beat movement. Besides very complete
bibliographic information Mr. Asher has included original material obtained
by e-mail interviews.
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San Narciso College Thomas Pynchon Home Page. No book has ever
made a stronger first impression on me than Pynchon's V. A Novel
and many readings have only made it all the more wonderful. Even
better is Gravity's
Rainbow which has given me great enjoyment and pretty much
changed how I look at the world. The San Narciso page has much useful
information including links to the very helpful
Concordance to Gravities
Rainbow by Tim Ware and
Gravity's
Rainbow: Summary by Alec McHoul. Information about
Pynchon's other books
The Crying of Lot 49,
Vineland,
Slow Learner and
Mason & Dixon can also be found on the web.
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Zembla, The Nabokov Butterfly Net contians much on the life and
works of Vladimir Nabokov, including
Silvery Light: The Real Life of Vladimir Nabokov by
Charles Kinbote best known for his commentary on John Shade's Poem
Pail Fire. There are also links to things of interest to
the Nobokovian such as
Shakespeare, James
Joyce,
Proust,
Kafka, and butterflies.
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Tom Stoppard (originally Tomas
Straussler). About as much fun can be had in the theater
or else where (most of his plays are as rewarding to read as to view).
Some high points are
Rosencrantz &
Guildenstern Are Dead,
Travesties,
The Real
Thing, and
Arcadia.
Also worth reading are
The Real
Inspector Hound and Rough
Crossing.
The radio play In the Native State is as moving as many of his
stage plays. He is also a coauthor of the screen play for the film
Brazil
which was one of my favorites long before I knew Stoppard had anything
to do with it.
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The Patrick O'Brian Page
contains information about O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, set in
Lord Nelson's navy. Besides references and links to help with
nautical terms and Georgian language and customs, there is Lobscouse and Spotted
Dog an online guide to recipes for dishes from the books which
is being added to at the rate of a dish a month. A Sea of Words: A
Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales by
Dean King is also great fun to browse in. |
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The Cormac McCarthy
Home Pages. This is the electronic residence of the the Cormac
McCarthy Society and has biographical information on McCarthy along
some interesting essays on this work. Two of his novels,
Suttree and
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West are wonderful
and a third
Child of God is by far the most sensitive treatment of
necrophilia in American letters.
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The Rosa Maria Garica
Memorial Page
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