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TALBOT, Fleur: Warrender Chase
—from Muriel Spark's Loitering With Intent

TARSLAW, Pete: The Tornado Ashes Club
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

TAYBACK, F.L. ("Four Leaf"): Tropic Thunder
—from the Ben Stiller film Tropic Thunder

TENENBAUM, Etheline: Family of Geniuses
—from the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums

THREAD SOUND: What Is Beneath
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

"TOMCAT MURR": Thought and Intuition, or, Cat and Dog (a "philosophical and didactic novel of sentiment"), Mousetraps and their Influence on the Character and Achievement of the Feline Race (political work), Cawdallor, King of Rats (tragedy)
—from E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr

TOPSIUS, Dr. (first name unknown): An Annotated Walk Around Jerusalem
—from José Maria de Eça de Queiroz's The Relic

TRALPIS, Ashley, M.D., Ph.D.: Feeling GREAT!
—from Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections

TRAPNEL, X. (Frances Xavier): Bin Ends, Camel Ride to the Tomb, Dogs Have No Uncles, Profiles in String
—from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

TS’UI, Pên: The Garden of Forking Paths
—from Jorge Luis Borges's "The Garden of Forking Paths"

TRIGORIN, Boris Alekseyevich: Days and Nights
—from Anton Chekhov's The Seagull

TRIPP, Grady: The Land Downstairs
—from Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys

TROUT, Kilgore: 2BRO2B (featuring "an America in which almost all of the work was done by machiens, and the only people who could get work had three or more Ph.D.'s. There was a serious overpopulation problem, too); Pan-Galactic Three-Day Pass ("It was an exciting story, all about a man who was serving on a sort of Space-Age Lewis and Clark expedition.")
—from Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

TULA, N'Gome: Dreaming of Buck Owens ("A memoir by the Nigerian human rights activist about his time as a diamond miner and his love of American culture")
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

TULAFALE, Stanley: Cooking the Captain: The Colonialist as Yorkshire Pudding
—from James Hynes's Publish and Perish

TULIPS THAT WOULD BE ON THE TABLE: The Inside Before Unfurling
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

TULL, Richard: Dreams Don't Mean Anything, Untitled, The History of Increasing Humiliation (nonfiction)
—from Martin Amis's The Information

TYRELL, Cecil: Orange Steel ("It's supposed to be very difficult, what's the word, inaccessible.")
—from Gilbert Sorrentino's Odd Number