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Umberto Eco

By: Mark Kingwell

Big man, big brain, big appetites.

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Isaac Asimov

By: Jerrold Freitag

Science is a humanist’s playground.

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William Gaddis

By: Brian Berger

His obsessions: Christian theology, art, authenticity.

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Alfred Bester

By: Suzanne Fischer

Teleportation, space travel, and the id.

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Ford Madox Ford

By: Kio Stark

“this is the saddest story I have ever heard”

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John Kennedy Toole

By: Devin McKinney

“Where you keep them motherfuckin broom?”

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George MacDonald

By: Suzanne Fischer

His constant concern was the other side of the dark mirror.

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James Thurber

By: Ingrid Schorr

That is no St. Bernard, madam; that is a bear.

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André Gide

By: Joshua Glenn

He rejected the either/or choice of conventional morality vs. cynicism.

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William Hope Hodgson

By: Joshua Glenn

He gave us the weird tentacle and the occult detective.

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Kurt Vonnegut

By: Robert Wringham

“Love may fail, but courtesy will prevail.”

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Zadie Smith

By: Tor Aarestad

She wrote the new millennium’s first perfect novel.

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Nathanael West

By: David Smay

The great striker of sentences between Joyce and Nabokov.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Jerrold Freitag

Existential fidgeting as wallpaper.

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Julio Cortázar

By: Ingrid Schorr

“I don’t like turgid, voluminous sentences.”

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