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Invisible Man is great, one of my favorites. The chapter "Battle Royal" is amazing. Ellison was a great writer.

Raymond Carver. For the whole blue collar thing.

Well the poetry especially is my preference over the past. Eliot, Hughes, Sandburg, Moore, etc. I'm a big Kafka fan.

I don't know, hard to argue against the American Renaissance as the pinnacle (Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson). Though for personal preference the early 20th century is...

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury. I tried reading it about 5 years ago, couldn't get through it.

Like saw but with a W.

I find his character diabolical in the novel. And I mean diabolical literally...I get the sense that Waugh uses him as a sort of devilish tempter; not innocently decadent like Charles or Sebastian,...

Best college for a future writer? The Public Library.

Any other fans of Brideshead Revisited / Evelyn Waugh? Brideshead Revisited is probably my favorite novel. The story and theme of the book are very meaningful to me. I want to read more Waugh. I've...

I have nightmares of reading Middlemarch. Maybe I need to give George Eliot another try, but it was a chore getting through her prose. And yet I hear she was a genius.

"Notebook of a Return to my Native Land." A book length poem by Martinique poet Aimé Césaire. Read it in a class on Afro-Caribbean literature. One of the great poems of the 20th century IMO. Césaire...

lol. Alexander Pope one of my favorites.

The dogma of Papal Infallibility was defined in 1870 at the First Vatican Council in the document "Pastor Aeternus." The dogma is actually very precise. It's not a blanket infallibility attached to...

St. Peter. He was imperfect and humble, but God chose him as an Apostle nonetheless.

The Pope is not a god, and Catholics do not worship the Pope.

Realize that after 2,000 years of Christian history the papacy has become complicated and has changed form over time. But always at...

Nella Larsen's "Quicksand." It's about a biracial woman who goes to Harlem in the 1920s to find her way in the world. The first half is really good but it jumps the shark at the end and undoes its...

I second "Jane Eyre." Such a great novel and deeper than Austen (though Austen is great too).

Well I think both Mr. Bennet and St. John Rivers are facing the same problem: how to be happy in marriage. They have different personalities, of course, and different situations. Mr. Bennet is stuck...

hmmm. Would be interesting to compare Mr. Bennet with St. John Rivers in "Jane Eyre." That question of a man's vocation.

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds, turned...

Yeah I wasn't meaning to put down Mr. Bennet as a character. But I do think his sarcasm is his sport in life (I think Austen uses that exact description somewhere in the novel, wish I could find it)....

Been a while since I've read "Pride and Prejudice" but I think her concern has to be put into the context of the society she lives in. What are her daughter's prospects if they do not marry well?...