Great First Pages in Literary History
From In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
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From Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles.
From The Illogic of Kassel by Enrique Vila-Matas.
From Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
From The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
From Paris Red by Maureen Gibbon.
Great First Pages in Literary History.
From The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere (review).
From The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman.
From So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away by Richard Brautigan.
From The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (review).
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