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: Foundation; Hushed Farewells; Full 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