insert yourself in the classics for a fee

"She’s right, there are an awful lot of headless girls in sundresses on the covers of contemporary fiction, although I hadn’t noticed the empty shoes."

First chapter of MacDonald Harris' unpublished posthumous novel, The Carp Castle

What was Italo Calvino? A prepostmodernist? Maybe it's time to dispense with modernism and all its prefixes. A young resistance fighter for the communists during the Nazi occupation of Italy, Calvino became and remained a consistently original writer of intellectual fantasy.

Let me put this bluntly: Hal Lindsey is a very, very bad novelist.

lovecraft's world described in detail, geographically

MacDonald Harris, 20th century novelist nominated for the National Book Award in 1977 for "The Balloonist."

"he's committed the literary equivalent of charging money for folks to watch him roll naked in a pile of dead and smelly fish..."

This article or section describes a work of fiction in a primarily in-universe style and may need CLEANUP. Also it's hilarious.

This is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors.

Site about "The Good Solder Svejk", including musical and film versions, etc

big page about genius writer of weird short stories

the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature, a group of writers and mathematicians.

Mark Twain's famous attack on Cooper

The death of Dumbledore in the style of many writers. I like Irvine Welsh a lot.

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