A non-comprehensive list of writers and books quoted or discussed on this blog. Sorted by last names:
—A–B–C–D–E–F–G–H-I-J–K–L–M–N–O–P-Q-R–S–T–U–V–W-X-Y-Z–
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Alexander, Scott
Amis, Kingsley
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Amis, Martin
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Arendt, Hannah
Austen, Jane
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Baker, Nicholson
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Barzun, Jacques
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Beckett, Samuel
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Beerbohm, Max
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Belloc, Hilaire
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Bellow, Saul
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Bloom, Allan
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Bloom, Harold
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Boswell, James
Brontë, Emily
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Bulgakov, Mikhail
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Bunyan, John
Burke, Edmund
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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Cain, James M.
Carpenter, Humphrey
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Chabon, Michael
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Chekhov, Anton
Chesterton, G.K.
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Chong, Kevin
Coetzee, J.M.
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Crichton, Michael
Crossman, Richard H. (editor)
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Darwin, Charles
Defoe, Daniel
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Derbyshire, John
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Dickens, Charles
Didion, Joan
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Diefenbaker, John
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Dreher, Rod
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Eliot, George
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Faulker, William
Fielding, Henry
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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Flaubert, Gustave
Forster, E.M.
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Fraser, George MacDonald
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Frayn, Michael
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Fukuyama, Francis
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Graves, Robert
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Greene, Graham
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Griffin, John Howard
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Hammett, Dashiell
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Hardy, Thomas
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Hazlitt, William
Heinlein, Robert A.
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Heller, Joseph
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Hemingway, Ernest
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Herodotus
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Hilton, James
Hitchens, Christopher
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Hitchens, Peter
Homer
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Huxley, Aldous
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Jacobs, Jane
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James, Clive
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James, Henry
James, M.R.
James, P.D.
James, William
Johnson, Paul
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Johnson, Samuel
July, Miranda
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Kagan, Donald
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Koestler, Arthur
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Kundera, Milan
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Lee, Harper
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Lethem, Jonathan
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Levin, Ira
Lewis, C.S.
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Littell, Jonathan
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MacLean, Katherine
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Mamet, David
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Marx, Groucho (and Richard J. Anobile)
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Maugham, W. Somerset
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McCarthy, Cormac
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Mencken, H.L.
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Miller, Frank
Miller, Walter M.
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Mitford, Nancy
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Monsarrat, Nicholas
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Moore, Alan
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Nabokov, Vladimir
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Newman, Peter C.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Niven, David
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Niven, Larry & Jerry Pournelle
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Orwell, George
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Pekar, Harvey & R. Crumb
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Plato
Plutarch
Pournelle, Jerry
Powell, Anthony
Pynchon, Thomas
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Renault, Mary
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Roth, Philip
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Runyon, Damon
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Russell, Bertrand
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Sailer, Steve
Salinger, J.D.
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Sayers, Dorothy L.
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Schulman, J. Neil
Shakespeare, William
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Shaw, George Bernard
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Shute, Nevil
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Simmons, Dan
Snow, C.P.
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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
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Steinbeck, John
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Stendhal
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Steyn, Mark
Stone, I.F.
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Stout, Rex
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Swift, Jonathan
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Tey, Josephine
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Theroux, Paul
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Thucydides
Tolstoy, Leo
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Trilling, Lionel
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Twain, Mark
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Updike, John
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Voltaire
Vonnegut, Kurt
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Wallace, David Foster
Watts, Peter
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Waugh, Evelyn
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Wells, H.G.
Wodehouse, P.G.
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Wolfe, Tom
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Wylie, Philip
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