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• Commercial Fiction

  Occasionally I will look at commercial fiction on recommendation or to see what the hubbub is about. But perhaps more this catagory offers me the opportunity to separate commercial from literary endeavors.

  • Delillo, Don. Underworld
    A review from the Literature Drawer.
  • Kostova, Elizabeth. Swan Thieves
• Literary Fiction

  Works that are striving for something more than the best-seller lists.

  • Broch, Hermann. The Death of Virgil
  • Catling, B. The Vorrh
  • Crowley, John. Little, Big
  • Ellis, Bret Easton. American Psycho
  • Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man
  • Endo, Shusako. Silence
  • Helperin, Mark. Winter's Tale
  • Kawabata, Yasunari. The Master of Go
  • Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird
  • Lawrence, D.H.. The Rainbow
  • McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
  • Pamuk, Orhan. The Black Book
  • Simon, Claude. The Flanders Road
• Poetry

  I separate out commercial fiction; should I separate out commercial poetry?

  • Heaney, Seamus. The Burial at Thebes and "Hercules and Antaeus"
  • Smith, Tracy K. Life on Mars
• Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror

  All works that might fall under what is sometimes "imagintive fiction": a useful term, but not one I like. Note that some of these may appear also in "Literary Fiction," above.

  • Butcher, Jim. Storm Front
  • Catling, B. The Vorrh
  • Crowley, John. Little, Big
  • Gaiman, Neil. American Gods
  • Herbert, Frank. Dune
  • Jemisin, N.K. The Fifth Season
  • Rothfuss, Patrick. The Name of the Wind
  • Sanderson, Brandon. Mistborn
  • Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash
  • Tolkien, J.R.R. Lord of the Rings
  • Valente, Catherynne M. Radiance
• Criticism and Theory

  I will not seperate Literary Criticism from Art or Music Theory/Criticism, or even that of Film. They are too entwined.

  • Barfield, Owen. Poetic Diction
  • Torgovnick, Marianna. Gone Primitive
  • Tuan, Yi-Fu. Passing Strange and Wonderful
• Books on Writing

  Books on the craft of writing.

  • LeGuin, Ursula K. Steering the Craft
  • Truby, John. The Anatomy of Story
• Non-Fiction: Social Sciences

  At times I am sure the distinction between this and Criticism and Theory will be arbitrary.

  • Jacoby, Susan. The Age of American Unreason

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• Cinema

  As of now, I will not subdivide. Though I may in the future.

  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Blood Creek
  • Fantastic Beasts
  • Gone Girl
  • The Mist
  • Sacred Flesh
  • Salò: or, 120 Days of Sodom
  • Sicario
  • The Sandman
  • Silence
  • The Tree of Life
  • The Ugly

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• Music

  Placeholding.

  • Album