Sunday, August 17, 2008

U

UNDT, F.: Decrepitude I, Decrepitude II, Decrepitude III (books); "Compensation for Unlawaful Arrest," "The Judged and the Condemned" (articles); "Body and Chaos" (essay)
—from Thomas Bernhardt's Playing Watten

UNKNOWN: 300 Years of Halitosis (Peacock Press)
—from Jonathan Coe's The Winshaw Legacy: What a Carve-Up!

UNKNOWNThe Book of Holy Prayer
—from George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire

UNKNOWN: The Book of Next Lines, A Lexicon of Cadence, Metaphor Conversion Tables, Rare and Unused Images
—from Don Paterson's Best Thought, Worst Thought

UNKNOWN: The Fiend of the Second Floor Flat, Blood on the Cauliflower, The Case of Ash on My Petticoat
—from the Pat Jackson film What a Carve Up!

UNKNOWNFlung RosesAll Quiet on the Don, Straight Flush ("that robust satire"), Through Towns and Villages ("the book club selection")
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister

UNKNOWN: Great Plumbers of Albania (Peacock Press)
—from Jonathan Coe's The Winshaw Legacy: What a Carve-Up!

UNKNOWN: How to Stand and Understand Texans: Their Fantasies, Foibles, Folkways, and Fixed Ideas as Seen in Their Own Writings

from Fritz Leiber's A Specter Is Haunting Texas

UNKNOWN: Hiding Your Arms, Hiding Your Anger: Dating Over 35
—from 30 Rock (season 4, episode 17)

UNKNOWN: King Crap
—from Francine Prose's Blue Angel

UNKNOWN: A Life in Packaging--Fragments of an Autobiography, Volume IX--The Styrofoam Years (Peacock Press)
—from Jonathan Coe's The Winshaw Legacy: What a Carve-Up!

UNKNOWNMoss Off a Rolling Stone

—from Anthony Powell's Books Do Furnish a Room

UNKNOWN: Murder in the Fog
—from P. G. Wodehouse's Uncle Dynamite

UNKNOWN: Nancy Drew and the Missing House Keys, Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Eight Pounds, Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Computer
—from Roz Chast's Theories of Everything

UNKNOWN: The Pnakotic manuscripts
—from H.P. Lovecraft's "Polaris," et al.

UNKNOWNPurged Not in Lethe


—from Anthony Powell's Books Do Furnish a Room

UNKNOWN: Rusty Hoover Goes to Peru, Rusty Hoover Goes to Portugal, Rusty Hoover Goes to Law School, Rusty Hoover Goes to Indiana
–from Mark Leyner's The Tetherballs of Bougainville

UNKNOWN: Scone Henge, The Polonium 260 Diet, Castor Oil for the Groin
—from Tim Hensley's "Shh!"

UNKNOWN: The Seven-Pointed Star
—from George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire

UNKNOWNSlow on the Feather

—from Anthony Powell's Books Do Furnish a Room

UNKNOWNA Stockbroker in Sandals
—from Anthony Powell's Books Do Furnish a Room

UNKNOWN: Topographical Legend and Location of Food Nooks
—from Ben Marcus's The Age of Wire and String

1 comment:

Marianaria Sra. bibliotecaria said...

Umphelby, Patrice. The Years Between; The Years of the Red Cat.

From Sweet Death, Kind Death by Amanda Cross.

Underwood, Zara. Bang, Bang, Baby.

From The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion, by Alice Kimberly.