Sunday, August 17, 2008

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N., Vadim Vadimovich: Tamara (1925), Pawn Takes Queen (1927), Plenilune (1929), Camera Lucida (Slaughter in the Sun), The Red Top Hat (1934), (1950), The Dare (1950), See under Real (1939), Esmeralda and Her Parandrus (1941), Dr. Olga Repnin (1946), Exile from Mayda (1947), A Kingdom by the Sea (1962), Ardis (1970)
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Look at the Harlequins!

NASO, Ovidius: "a poem...written in the Getick language during his exile at Tomi and found wrapt up in wax at Sabaria..."
—in Thomas Browne's Musæum Clausum, from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn



NIMMO, Franklin Saltonstall: Incidents of Jersey History; with an etymological gazeteer of Atlantic, Cape May & Cumberland Counties; with four folding maps and many figures. To be had of the Author at his bookshop, 2 Bivalve Gate, Cape May, Jersey. 1926.
—from Robert Kelly's The Scorpions

NOORDIN, Maulvi: One Thousand Ways of Producing Money
—from Muhammad Khalid Akhtar's "The 'Monthly Ulloo'"

NOVACK, Chandler: Care of Wooden Floors
—from Will Wiles's Care of Wooden Floors

NUTTER, Agnes: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
—from Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens

O

OAKLEY, Oscar: [Unknown, featuring "Toughs talking out of the corners of their mouths in synthetic American that had neither the wit nor the pungency of the real thing....Very remarkably bunk."]
—from Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time

O'FALLON, Vendla:
Daddy's Girl (New York Times: "astonishing" and "courageous" and "deeply satisfying")
—from Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections

OWEN, Michael: Accidents Will Happen, The Loving Touch, The Winshaw Legacy: A Family Chronicle (Peacock Press, 1991)
—from Jonathan Coe's The Winshaw Legacy: What a Carve-Up!

P





PARLOV, D.C.: The Skyfire Cycle
—from Brooklyn Nine-Nine (season 4, episode 8; season 5, episode 8)

PASHLEY-DRAKE, Colonel Francis: My Life with Rod and Gun
—from P. G. Wodehouse's "A Good Cigar is a Smoke"


PATOVA, Anna: I Thought of Architecture

—from Renee Gladman's The Ravickians

PATTERSON, M. Halsey: Yes, I Drank the Kool-Aid—and I Went Back for Seconds
—from Ed Park's Personal Days

PEEK, PROWCOSH, WITAMOOR, SIRIN, GRAE (Bros.)
: The Refraction of Light in a Prison (Being an Account of the Truffidian Monks Held in the Dungeons of the Kalif, For They Have Not Given Up Sanity, or Hope)
—from Jeff VanderMeer's City of Saints and Madmen

PEIFER, Rob: Callistra: The Hunt for the Devil’s Eye
—from Jack McDevitt's The Devil's Eye

PEMBURY, Evangeline (Mrs. Egbert Mulliner): Parted Ways
—from P.G. Wodehouse's "Best Seller," in Mulliner Nights

PENNYMAN, Adam: The Catalogue of Obsolete Entertainments
—from D.B. Weiss's Lucky Wander Boy

PENROSE, Robin:
Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females: Woman as Sign and Commodity in Victorian Fiction
The Industrious Muse: Narrativity and Contradiction in the Industrial Novel
—from David Lodge's Nice Work

PFARRER, Sandra: Point of Order, Oliver
—from the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading

PINCKNEY, Leila J.:
Heather o' the Hills
The Love Which Prevails
Rupert's Legacy
Scent o' the Blossom (wherein Edgar saves Maud from drowning)
. . . and 136 more novels whose titles are lost to posterity
—from P. G. Wodehouse's "Honeysuckle Cottage"

PLATOCRATES, The World Beyond the Suburbs of Glendale
—from Joe Daly's Dungeon Quest (Book One)

PLOVER, Christopher: The World in the Walls, The Girl Who Told Time, The Flying Forest, The Secret Sea
—from Lev Grossman's The Magicians

POISSEL, Paul: Journals, Antinomies, Scottish Sketches, Divan Divin (play), History of Misunderstanding
—from Paul La Farge's "The Effect of Winter," afterword to Paul Poissel's The Facts of Winter

POLTON, Dub: So This Is Omaha, Hoosier Wizard
—from Charles Portis's Masters of Atlantis

POLYP, Asterios: Modernism With a Human Face, The Seeds of Design
—from David Mazzucchelli's Asterios Polyp

POPPER, Amelia: Practical Exercises for Young Magicians
—from Lev Grossman's The Magicians

POTTAGE, Reverend J. W. : Plinths, Plinths, Plinths; So You Think You Know about Plinths?
—from Jonathan Coe's The Winshaw Legacy: What a Carve-Up!

PRATT, Chester: Burn All Your Cities
—from Richard Yates's Disturbing the Peace

PRICE, Gertrude: The Francine Odysseys
—from Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom

PRINN, Ludvig: Mysteries of the Worm (De Vermis Mysteriis)
—from Robert Bloch's "The Secret in the Tomb" and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark"

PRODE THE YOUNGER: Baron Lepessi
—from Iain M. Banks's Matter

PROPP VictorNew Haven Evenings ("A delicate coming-of-age novel...The story of a Propp-like second-generation American who goes to Yale to become a poet and falls in love with a duplicitous Daughter of the American Revolution, it collected respectful, encouraging reviews.")
—from Jay McInerney's Brightness Falls

PUTTER, Mr.: The Mystery of Lighthouse Cove (unfinished); Good Things
—from Cynthia Rylant's Mr. Putter & Tabby Write the Book

PYTHEAS OF MARSEILLES: "fragment of an account...according to which all the air beyond Thule is thick, condensed and gellied, looking just like sea lungs."
—"referred to in Strabo," in Thomas Browne's Musæum Clausum, from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn

Q

QUIGGIN, J. G.: Unburnt Boats
—from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

QUILTY, Clare: The Little Nymph, The Lady who Loved Lightning (in collaboration with Vivian Darkbloom), Dark Age, The Strange Mushroom, Fatherly Love, The Enchanted Hunters (plays)
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

QUINN, Bly: Hesitation Cuts: Short Stories

—from Samuel Holt's What I Tell You Three Times Is False

R

RASH, Charles Cheatham: The One Who Is Watching Me Through the Window
—From Kelly Link's "The Specialist's Hat"

RAWCLIFFE, A.: Balls and Talk: Poems 1936 (listed in "the catalogue of the ill-fated Gorgon Press, which specialised in verse printed at the author's own expense")
—from Anthony Burgess's Enderby

RAY, John, Jr., PhD: Do the Senses Make Sense?
—From Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita


REESE, Thomas: Radio Mary ("A homicide detective hunting for a new kind of killer gets involved with a woman with telepathic abilities, his link to the killer")
—from Gary Walkow's film Crashing

RICH,
Aristotle: Girls, Grapes, and Snow
—from Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew

RODMAN, James: The Secret Nine
—from P. G. Wodehouse's "Honeysuckle Cottage"

ROSENBAUM, Benjamin: "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes"
—from Benjamin Rosenbaum's "Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes,' " in The Ant King

ROSENKRANTZ, Shem: Encolpius, In Justice (play), Only 'Til Seven, Sweet as Summer
—from Ariel S. Winter's The Twenty-Year Death

ROSENWALD, Severin: Cruising the Flat Surface, Kangaroo MusicPeckerhead (Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award)
—from Matthew Specktor's American Dream Machine

ROSENBLAB, Ron: Hitler Was a Jerk
—from Simpleton's "The Noodgy Neoplatonist: The Lesser Goldsboro: Watcing Bobby Grow"

ROSS, Mattie: “You will now listen to the sentence of the law, Odus Wharton, which is that you be hanged by the neck until you are dead, dead dead! May God, whose laws you have broken and before whose dread tribunal you must appear, have mercy upon your soul. Being a personal recollection of Isaac C. Parker, the famous Border Judge"
—from Charles Portis's True Grit

ROTH, Hampton: The Decline of Almost Everything
—from Adam Brooks's film Definitely, Maybe

ROUGE, Rupert: Bells on Her Toes
—from Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time

ROUSSELOT, Alvaro: The Archives of the Calle Peru, The Juggler's Family, Life of a Newlywed, Solitude
—From Roberto Bolano's "Alvaro Rousselot's Journey"

RUM-BUBBA, X.: Dioretix: The Science of Matter Over Mind

—from Alex Cox's Repo Man




S

S_________: "The Red Button" (in "an anthology of Palestinian literature...one of those plump, poorly printed, catchall UNESCO jobs")
—from Jonathan Tel's "A Story About a Bomb," in Arafat's Elephant

SANTIAGO, Bento: History of the Suburbs

—from Machado de Assis' Dom Casmurro


ST. CLAIR, Raleigh: Dudley's World; The Peculiar Neurodegenerative Inhabitants of the Kazawa Atoll
—from Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums

ST.-PHALLE, Alexis Payne de: Dictionary of the Devils, Deities and Daemons of Mankind
—from John Crowley's Aegypt cycle


SCABIUS, Peter:
Already Too Late
Beware of the Dog
Guilt
Iniquity
Night Train to Paris
The Red and the Blue and the Red
The Slaughter of the Innocents
Three Days in Marrakesh
—from William Boyd's Any Human Heart

SCHWITTERS, T. Azimuth: Eventualism
—from Steven Soderbergh's film Schizopolis

SEAMAN, Barry: Eating Ribs with Barry Seaman
—from Roberto Bolano's 2666

SEARCH, Alexander: "A Very Original Dinner" (to be translated by Vicente Guedes)
—from Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet

SERENGETI, Chico: Tuna's Not the Only Fish in the Sea!
—from Adam Rapp's The Year of Endless Sorrows

SEURAT, Raymond: Toi
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

SFAX
, Léopold: Either/Either, The Vicious Spiral (literary criticism)
—from Gilbert Adair's The Death of the Author

SHADBOLD
, G.F.H.: Beyond Narcissus, Reticences of Thersites ("published notebooks"); Unweeded Gardens ("the slimmest of slim volumes of verse"), Irregular Conjugation (play); two novels, Trip The Pert Fairies ("mostly conversations in the Peacock tradition") and Thumbs ("described in review as 'experimental')
—from Anthony Powell's O, How the Wheel Becomes It!


SHAKESPEARE
, Mona: The Rubber Slipper.
—from The Thin Pink Line, by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
SHAKESPEARE
, William: The Prince of Antioch, or An Old Way to New Identity (ed. by Miss Blanche Tray)—from Nigel Dennis's Cards of Identity
The Tragedy of Arthur (ed. by Arthur Phillips)—from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur 

SHEFFIELD, (Professor) Peter: Who Indeed: A Critical Analysis of Television's Who's the Boss?; What WAS Happening: An Analysis of What’s Happening?;
—from Community (season 2, ep. 20)


SHEPHARD, Harrison: Vassels of Majesty (1945)—from Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna

SHERMAN, Henry: Accounting for Everything: A Guide to Personal Finance
—from Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums

SHUCKERLY
, Quentin: Athlete's Footman ("the best queer novel since Sea Urchins")
—from Anthony Powell's Temporary Kings (ADTMOT)

SHRAPNEL,
D.M.S.: The Pegasus Plan: How To Get the Job You Want, the Respect You Deserve, and the Employees You Need to Succeed for Life ("with an introduction by Whittles Langley, CEO of Ptarmigan Group")
—from Ed Park's Personal Days

SILENT DICTIONARY: Parchment That Knows the Tongue
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

SILETTE, Jacques: Détection
—from Sara Gran's Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead and Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway

SILLERS: City State and State of City ("had achieved some slight success at a time when works popularising political science and economic theory were beginninng to sell")
—from Anthony Powell's A Question of Upbringing

SINGLEYET, Florence: There Is No Birth ("a book on Spirtualism")
—from George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody

SINDT: Craven Words ("the introductory study of novelist Roger Craven that he had been commissioned to write by Craven himself")
—from Brian Evenson's "In the Greenhouse," in Fugue State

SINNEL: The House of Many Roofs
—from Iain M. Banks's's Matter

SLURRY, Randall: Office Politics 101
—from Ed Park's Personal Days


SMUFF, Dirk: see Topliss, Ed

SOLITO, Angel: The Crossing: A Picto-Narra-Graphic Allegory
from Matthew Klam's Who Is Rich?

(KING) SOLOMON, de Umbris Idærum ("treatise on the shadows cast by our thoughts")
—in Thomas Browne's Musæum Clausum, from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn

SONTAG
, Louis: Annunciata ("that remarkable cross between a certain kind of wafer and a lollipop")
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister

SPACEMAN
, Leo: The Cigarette Diet
—from 30 Rock (Season 4, episode 2)

SPALLANZANI
, Gian Carlo: Idiota—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

SPARROW, Roberta: The Philosophy of Time Travel
—from the film Donnie Darko

SPIEGEL, Léonard: FoundationHushed FarewellsFull Stop




from Olivier Assayas's film Non-Fiction

STALLINGS, Booth: Anatomy of Terror
—from Ross Thomas's Out on the Rim

STARK, Richard: Child Heist
—from Donald E. Westlake's Jimmy the Kid

STEADMAN, Slade: Trespassing
—from Paul Theroux's Blinding Light

STEPHENOR, Pinkus: Here Comes the Sun, and It's All Right; I Have to Admit It's Getting Better, a Little Better All the Time
—from Shalom Auslander's Hope

STEVENS, Herbert "Odo": Sad Majors (war memoir)
—from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

STRONG, Taura: Lances of Glory; Rising Sap
—from Russell Hoban's Turtle Diary

SUMERFIELD, Bruce, M.D.: The Me and God Diet
—from John Hindeman's The Answer Man

SUNDAYS: When the Week Is Spent
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

SWENSON, Ted: Blue Angel, The Black and the Black
—from Francine Prose's Blue Angel

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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

TENENBAUM, Margot: Three Plays (Erotic Transference, Nakedness Tonight, Static Electricity)
—from Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums

TESTIKOV, Yuri: Rimsky
—from Seinfeld, Season 5, Episode 14

THAINE, Tyrus: The Roumanian
—from Maxwell Bodenheim's New York Madness

THOMAX, Maester: Dragonkin, Being a History of House Targaryen from Exile to Apotheosis, with a Consideration of the Life and Death of Dragons
—from George R. R. Martin's A Feast for Crows



THORPE, Carey: Author and Auteur: Dynamism and Domination in Film, The Mob at the Movies: Down from Rico to Puzo
—from Donald E. Westlake's "A Travesty," collected in Enough

THOSS, Dr. Raymond: Winter Solstice: The Longest Night of a Society; "The Last Feast of Harlequin"
—from Thomas Ligotti, "The Last Feast of Harlequin"

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

THURING, Mary Elizabeth: Coarse-Cut Marmalade Enema Binge (opens with the erotic sonnet "The Wilted Crudités")
—from Mark Leyner's Et Tu, Babe

TIPTON, Virginia: The Light of Seven Matchsticks
—from Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom

TOD, Theodora: Princess, Princess
—from Gary Walkow's Crashing

TOLLIVER, Orson Card: The Accidental Chrononaut; Little Lost Lamb, Who Made Thee?; Timecode: Omega
—from John Wray's The Lost Time Accidents

"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

TOPLISS, Ed: Beachcomber Sin, Escape to Lust, Passion's Prisoner, Raving Passion, Summer Sex (all written as Dirk Smuff)
—from Donald E. Westlake's Adios, Scheherazade: A Serious Comedy

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.")
Venus on the Half-Shell
The Son of Jimmy Valentine
Pan-Galactic Three-Day Pass
How You Doin'?
The First District Court of Thank You; Oh Say Can You Smell?; The Gospel From Outer Space; The Gutless Wonder; Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension
The Big Board
The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank
Plague on Wheels
Pan-Galactic Straw Boss
The Smart Bunny
Now It Can Be Told
Sf-1, A Selective Bibliography

—first two titles from Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; remainder of the bibliography from "Kilgore Trout" (Philip José Farmer)'s Venus on the Half-Shell

TROUT, Theodore: "The Vilzar Matter," in nebulous 5
—from Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library (Vol. 19)

TUGGS, LeonGeneral Theory of Industrial Sex (“which posits . . . that civilization is based on the male piston and the female cylinder, the male bolt and the female nut"); General Theory of Mobility

—from Stanley Crawford's Petroleum Man

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

TUMKIN, BrianArthur the Anteater
—from Judy Blume's Superfudge

TURGIDITI, Ivan: Wet Socks
—from Michael Moorcock's "Pale Roses"

TURNER, Ethan: The Solitude of Trees, My Wild Animal Heart, Storm (unpublished), Wolf Trials (unpublished); Centaur Boy
—from Friends From College

TUTTLE, Benoit: "Of All the Skies That Weep," in nebulous 5
—from Chris Ware's Acme Novelty Library (Vol. 19)

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

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

V

VALDON, Richard: His Own Image, Never Dream Again

—from Rex Stout's The Mother Hunt

VAN HOUTEN, Peter: An Imperial Affliction
—from John Green's The Fault in Our Stars

VAN ZORN, August: The Abominations of Plunkettsburg and Other Tales
—from Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys

VANDELAY, Art: Venetian Blinds
—from Seinfeld, Episode 29

VANE, Harriet: Murder By Degrees, The Fountain-Pen Mystery, Death in the Pot, and Death 'twixt Wind and Water.
—in Dorothy L. Sayers's Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, and Gaudy Night

VEREKER, Hugh: The Right of Way
—from Henry James's "The Figure in the Carpet"

VICE, Oliver: Paradoxes of Self, The Fake
—from Lawrence Douglas's The Vices


VON JUNZT: Unaussprechlichen Kulten (Nameless Cults)
—from Robert E. Howard's "The Black Stone" and H.P. Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark" and "The Dreams in the Witch House"

VOTAR, Colloquo: Jade Compendium
—from George R. R. Mratin's A Feast for Crows

W

WALLACE, Hyacinth: Bubblegum Bimbos and Assembly-Line Meatballers
—from Megan McCafferty's Charmed Thirds

WAYNEWRIGHT
, Alastair: Being Inc.—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

WASHINGTON, John and ALAPIN, Ivan: Mother Earth, Father Space: A Short History of Circumluna
—from Fritz Leiber's A Specter is Haunting Texas

WEAVER, Miriam: The Return of Auntie Lorraine
—from Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom

WEEKLEY, Silas: The Sweat and the Furrow
—from Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time


WEISS, Melanie: Bagration Island
—from Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

WEISS
, Stacey (Ph.D.)—Mastering Small Talk (jacket copy: "Do you fear parties? Are you at a loss for words? Do your conversations die?")
—from Adrian Tomine's "Hawaiian Getaway," in Summer Blonde

WELLWOOD, Olive:
Dark Doings at Blacktowers
The People in the House in the House (1901)
The Shrubbery
—from A. S. Byatt's The Children's Book
WEST, Rex: The Mystery of the Pink Crayfish, Murder in Mauve, The Case of the Poisoned Donut, Inspector Biffen Views the Body, Blood Will Tell ("A novelette")
—from P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
WHARFINGER, Richard: The Courier's Tragedy
—from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49

WHITE (first name unknown): The Desire of Ages
—from Scott McGhee's film Suture


WIDMERPOOL, Kenneth: Pogrom of Youth
—from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time

WILSON, William: Clam Up, Good Guy/Bad Guy, Deceit ("A Max Work Mystery"), Undercover, Dead Man's Tale, Suicide Squeeze
—from Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli's graphic-novel adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass

WINTERWADE
, Cedric: The Welsons of Omdurman Terrace
—from Anthony Powell's O, How the Wheel Becomes It!

WILLOUGHBY, Carey: Baby, It's Cold Outside
—from Malcolm Bradbury's Eating People Is Wrong

WIRZBICKI, James: Empanadas in Worcester
—from Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist

WOMAN WHO RE-READS YOUR LETTERS: Memoirs of a Scab Picker
—from Carrie Olivia Adams's Intervening Absence

WORTHINGTON, Brian: Adventures in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
—from the Zachary Adler film Familiar Strangers


"THE WRITER": The Book of the Grotesque
—from Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

WURSUP, Frederick: Down the American Drain
—from Richard Stern's Natural Shocks

X-Y-Z


ZABALETA, Curzio: Neck in a Noose
—from Roberto Bolano's Nazi Literature in the Americas
ZELLABY, Gordon:
The British Twilight
While We Last
—from John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos
ZELLERMAN, Alfred: Gruppenführer Louis XVI
—from Stanislaw Lem's A Perfect Vacuum

ZUCKERMAN, Nathan: "Higher Education," Carnovsky
—from Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer and Zuckerman Unbound

Thursday, August 16, 2007

NEWS AND OTHER LINKS

Invisible Librarian Ed on "Titles Within a Tale," in the New York Times Book Review.

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INVISIBLE LIBRARY EXHBITION

13th JUNE - 12th JULY [2009—closed]

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Illustration collective INK and Literary foundation Real Fits take residency at the Tenderpixel Gallery for a month of unique events, construction of a hidden library filled with books that have been alluded to in novels by published writers but have never actually existed... until now. Once selected and written, the hidden novels will have their covers illustrated by INK. The Invisible Library will ask best selling writers Iain Sinclair and Saci Lloyd, cultural and musical figures, to be announced, and gallery attendees to write the opening or closing page of a 'hidden novel.'



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For a full program of events, press release and further details visit here.

Some more photos can be found here.

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Taking down the Invisible Library exhibit: