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Wayne Shorter Footprints 57 chiaroscuro lighting 57 Bildungsroman 57 rivetingly 57 uninflected 57 unerring ear 57 Ronald Firbank 57 Georges Perec 57 sestina 57 mercurial moods 57 writerly 57 Chrysanthemum Palace 57 wholly believable 57 O'Rowe 57 Schubertian 56 beguilingly 56 overwrought prose 56 confessional songwriting 56 Nesbø 56 satiric wit 56 Lispector 56 bitingly funny 56 lyrical sensibility 56 Ozick 56 wonderfully descriptive 56 Keats poem 56 Anthologist 56 wry asides 56 diaristic 56 harmonic sophistication 56 immensely readable 56 Gaitskill 56 rhapsodies 56 prose poem 56 singable melodies 56 rhymed couplets 56 formidable intellect 56 Le Carré 56 richly imagined 56 breeziness 56 melodic phrasing 56 delicately wrought 56 rhythmic cadences 56 melodic solos 56 morality tales 56 masterful storytelling 56 bildungsroman 56 ethereality 56 witty prose 56 eloquent prose 56 Messud 56 boundless imagination 56 literary pretensions 56 EL Doctorow Ragtime 56 biodrama 56 spareness 56 scrupulously researched 56 prose stylists 56 utterly captivating 55 earthily 55 Chandleresque 55 gifted wordsmith 55 wry wit 55 hokiness 55 Anita Brookner 55 drollery 55 evocative 55 hauntingly lovely 55 Shakespearean sonnet 55 prose poems 55 richly imaginative 55 humor pathos 55 Kadohata 55 versifier 55 pulp noir 55 sublime silliness 55 faux naif 55 Antonya Nelson 55 taut muscular 55 engagingly 55 soaringly 55 unflinchingly honest 55 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 55 beguiling 55 florid prose 55 utterly unsentimental 55 master storyteller 55 fictionalized autobiography 55 Henryson 55 sensualist 55 autobiographer 55 Posy Simmonds 55 Lavishly illustrated 55 X'ed Out 55 heartbreakingly poignant 55 wordplay 55 Aimee Bender 55 invigoratingly 55 tonal contrasts 55 painterliness 55 unornamented 55 finely wrought 55 richly layered 55 enchantingly 55 Miéville 55 winsomeness 55 Lewycka 55 vivid imagery 55 grippingly 55 melodiousness 55 rhythmic interplay 55 cartoonishness 55 oboe solo 55 Hemon 55 Albert Goldbarth 55 Oedipus myth 55 Vendler 55 meta theatrical 55 Dercourt 55 unnamed narrator 54 Pessl 54 watercolor illustrations 54 earthy sensuality 54 homespun homilies 54 Partisan Daughter 54 gothic novels 54 Baricco 54 Sybille Bedford 54 arrestingly 54 crisp articulation 54 neo Romantic 54 Kleinzahler 54 melodic motifs 54 urbane wit 54 achingly lovely 54 ingenuousness 54 dryly witty 54 craftsmanlike 54 Amy Hempel 54 Benjamin Markovits 54 Unknown Terrorist 54 solitariness 54 clever wordplay 54 humorous asides 54 overdetermined 54 idiosyncratically 54 Blakean 54 heartrendingly 54 evocation 54 sarcastic wit 54 copious footnotes 54 Ellingtonian 54 Harold Brodkey 54 subversively funny 54 luminously 54 Shavian 54 cinematographer Andrij Parekh 54 introductory essay 54 collage illustrations 54 fictionalized memoir 54 self deprecating charm 54 interiority 54 Rechy 54 Puckish 54 lyric poetry 54 refreshingly straightforward 54 crystalline clarity 54 bluesy vocals 54 Gods Behaving Badly 54 Biblical allusions 54 doubleness 54 rhyming couplets 54 fussily 54 attraction repulsion 54 florid descriptions 54 epigram 54 avoids sentimentality 54 magical realist 54 Thousand Autumns 54 beautifully nuanced 54 wry observational 54 picaresque 54 dustjacket 54 reedy voice 54 captivatingly 54 bewitchingly 54 quippy 54 lyrical 54 irresistibly charming 54 precise diction 54 Beautifully illustrated 54 utterly beguiling 54 miniaturist 54 Herzogian 54 contemporary resonances 54 Leanne Shapton 54 Beautifully crafted 54 pop songcraft 54 sardonically funny 54 digressive 54 narratives 54 Cinnamon Kiss 54 omniscient narrator 54 preternaturally wise 54 amour fou 54 JP Donleavy 54 thoroughly engrossing 54 roman clef 54 droll deadpan 54 terrifically entertaining 54 mordantly witty 54 crystalline prose 54 Etzioni Halevy 54 aperçu 54 impenetrable dialect 54 soulful baritone 54 Boo'ya Moon 54 Nabokov Lolita 54 Emily Brontë 54 Bostridge 54 richly atmospheric 54 arioso 54 gorgeously crafted 53 noir genre 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Estleman 53 wonderfully droll 53 profundities 53 insouciant charm 53 directorial flourishes 53 Jeff VanderMeer 53 unpretentiously 53 Judith Krantz 53 beatnik poet 53 idiomatically 53 Darkly funny 53 rhythmic riffs 53 Carlo Gesualdo 53 nasally whine 53 mordantly funny 53 Steven Millhauser 53 bitingly satirical 53 penetratingly 53 widescreen cinematography 53 Djuna Barnes 53 Melancholic 53 Galchen 53 Polanski Oliver Twist 53 gruff vocals 53 wildly imaginative 53 Adam Mansbach 53 Théophile Gautier 53 musicianly 53 stylistic tics 53 Tomine 53 neo romanticism 53 self reflexivity 53 finely etched 53 SN Behrman 53 Riddley Walker 53 concision 53 sly humor 53 Handelian 53 unexpected juxtapositions 53 aching tenderness 53 Nick Bantock 53 prolixity 53 hyperrealism 53 charming witty 53 billet doux 53 weaves tale 53 childlike whimsy 53 interpretively 53 Cinematically 53 Jacob de Zoet 53 inflects 53 Imperfect Birds 53 scholarly tome 53 rhythmic verve 53 cleareyed 53 dissonant harmonies 53 velvety tones 53 charmingly self deprecating 53 Nancy Mitford 53 aperçus 53 unsentimental portrait 53 chaste romance 53 philosophical musings 53 luxuriance 53 epigrammatic 53 poetic monologues 53 Pynkoski 53 agelessness 53 witty urbane 53 impish humor 53 plaintiveness 53 weaves tapestry 53 viscerally thrilling 53 rawly 53 Un Lun Dun 53 densely textured 53 consummate artistry 53 Loren Estleman 53 bleakly humorous 53 bookishness 53 Edmund Gosse 53 illuminative 53 teacherly 53 coloristic 53 autobiographical essay 53 trenchant wit 53 threnody 53 lush romanticism 53 po mo 53 allusiveness 53 tuneful melodies 53 entrancingly 53 Hofmannsthal 53 suspenseful thriller 53 Gary Giddins 53 fingerwork 53 UA Fanthorpe 53 serio comedy 53 evocatively 53 Austen heroine 53 visualist 53 Helen Vendler 53 Buru Quartet 53 absurdist humor 53 layerings 53 Heidi Julavits 53 Jane Hirshfield 53 Kafka Metamorphosis 53 wordsmithery 53 Magical realism 53 heavily footnoted 53 contralto voice 53 lacerating wit 53 florid 53 self mythologising 53 unshowy 53 unflinching honesty 53 farceur 52 Anathem 52 Ford Madox Ford 52 compulsively readable 52 wistful ballad 52 unreliable narrators 52 hardboiled detective 52 aphorist 52 seraphic 52 Maharidge 52 Monkish 52 wonderfully eccentric 52 page turner 52 orchestrally 52 exquisitely rendered 52 songful 52 descriptives 52 succeeds admirably 52 didacticism 52 terza rima 52 easeful 52 vocal timbre 52 orchestral textures 52 AE Houseman 52 faintly amused 52 droll 52 insightfulness 52 Unaccustomed Earth 52 melodicism 52 Keythe Farley 52 melodic invention 52 Tóibín 52 le Carré 52 inexhaustibly 52 picaresque tale 52 dancerly 52 gifted storyteller 52 mythologist 52 unflinching realism 52 inventive choreography 52 novel Housekeeping 52 electrifyingly 52 felicities 52 intricately constructed 52 Suite Française 52 Cesare Pavese 52 familial dysfunction 52 Brontë sisters 52 cadenced 52 sparely 52 Svevo 52 thematic resonance 52 shimmeringly 52 koans 52 cantankerousness 52 Asterios Polyp 52 contrapuntal 52 devilish wit 52 orotund 52 visually ravishing 52 beautifully textured 52 overly melodramatic 52 Charmingly 52 impishness 52 dialogue crackles 52 Annie Dillard 52 punctuations 52 Roiphe 52 dottiness 52 le mot juste 52 evocations 52 Crisply 52 richly expressive 52 jazziness 52 Walter Pater 52 melodist 52 Krafft Ebing 52 hyper literate 52 sumptuous cinematography 52 Keats Ode 52 Sea Interludes 52 slyly funny 52 witty erudite 52 jeu d' esprit 52 childlike simplicity 52 limning 52 Logan Mountstuart 52 floridly 52 unpublished memoirs 52 Hölderlin 52 unembellished 52 sonnet 52 Gaston Bachelard 52 unworldliness 52 Márai 52 exegeses 52 sheer musicality 52 searingly honest 52 Almereyda 52 Mahlerian 52 stylizations 52 honeyed voice 52 Pelevin 52 archaisms 52 biographically 52 unfussily 52 Wickedly funny 52 Maupassant 52 Wildean 52 mot juste 52 Huneven 52 Dostoevskian 52 elisions 52 Hemingway esque 52 Kinderszenen 52 chronological narrative 52 Philip Lopate 52 delicately nuanced 52 affectingly 52 balladic 52 archetypally 52 rhapsodic 52 screamingly funny 52 purple prose 52 unaffectedly 52 meticulous craftsman 52 unflinching portrait 52 storytelling 52 lyric 52 ivory tickling 52 unforgettable melodies 52 Barbara Pym 52 sparse instrumentation 52 elegaic 52 quasi autobiographical 52 oneiric 52 soaring falsetto 52 singspiel 52 stylisation 52 Trezza Azzopardi 52 similes 52 Anouilh 52 Rainer Maria Rilke 52 wonderfully expressive 52 haiku poem 52 omniscient narration 52 delightfully witty 52 imagist 52 densely layered 52 allusive 52 caustic wit 52 Juliet Nicolson 52 Conradian 52 poetically inclined 52 subtle shadings 52 eminently likeable 52 Joyce Ulysses 52 chick lit heroines 52 snappy dialogue 52 fractured fairy tales 52 witty 52 wonderfully inventive 52 grand guignol 52 prolix 52 sonnet sequence 52 Mordden 52 intellectually nimble 52 autobiographical essays 52 Poledouris 52 Imperial Bedrooms 52 Lasdun 51 declarative sentence 51 Acclaimed poet 51 kitchen sink realism 51 nuanced portrayal 51 acutely perceptive 51 hieratic 51 Compositionally 51 sketchily drawn 51 wickedly witty 51 exhortatory 51 Gustave Flaubert 51 ruefulness 51 breathless prose 51 gravelly vocals 51 sonic textures 51 Templesmith 51 self effacingly 51 novel Divisadero 51 panegyric 51 Camera Lucida 51 sancharas 51 instantly likeable 51 anthologist 51 dry wit 51 unsensational 51 mesmerisingly 51 Whitmanesque 51 toweringly 51 Ellroy 51 mawkish sentimentality 51 cogitations 51 wryly amusing 51 Chris Raschka 51 jokiness 51 Kit Hesketh 51 sweetly sung 51 Thomas Pynchon Gravity Rainbow 51 unflinching gaze 51 Bobbsey Twins 51 richly melodic 51 melodic sensibilities 51 ee cummings 51 ruminative 51 Painted Drum 51 uncynical 51 wry witty 51 disarmingly funny 51 timelessly 51 Passionella 51 fascinatingly 51 melodic sensibility 51 Flaubert 51 Steinbeck novel 51 Digressions 51 guitar soloing 51 writes movingly 51 unabashedly romantic 51 kineticism 51 VS Pritchett 51 delightfully wicked 51 Thoroughly researched 51 Georgette Heyer 51 escapist fiction 51 lilting accent 51 lushly romantic 51 Carla Neggers 51 Nelly Bly 51 flyleaf 51 Plainsong 51 liltingly 51 clarinet solos 51 stylistics 51 piercingly 51 Mozartian 51 jazz inflected 51 succinctness 51 minute intermissionless 51 Trigorin 51 spunkiness 51 litheness 51 verbal repartee 51 Berni Wrightson 51 abstractness 51 Yanna McIntosh 51 stylistic flourishes 51 masterfully crafted 51 acoustic guitar riffs 51 Borgesian 51 innate musicality 51 archaism 51 juvenilia 51 unreliable narrator 51 bouncily 51 Charlotte Brontë classic 51 pensiveness 51 film noire 51 vampire mythos 51 Bök 51 Safran Foer 51 solipsist 51 Paddy Cunneen 51 razor wit 51 compellingly 51 EE Cummings 51 readerly 51 disarming honesty 51 Mavis Gallant 51 Zinnemann 51 screwball romance 51 Nussimbaum 51 songlike 51 Altmanesque 51 feminine flirty 51 catchingly 51 gorgeous harmonies 51 LeDray 51 Håfström 51 radiantly beautiful 51 poet ee cummings 51 tonal palette 51 Michel Faber 51 Ruders 51 rhapsodically 51 ghostliness 51 affectless 51 minutely observed 51 Gum Thief 51 thoughful 51 haiku poetry 51 Thomas Pynchon novel 51 poetic eloquence 51 visual puns 51 terrifically funny 51 chromatic harmonies 51 Alfred Kazin 51 beautifully modulated 51 ripping yarns 51 expository prose 51 Wordsworthian 51 cinematic adaptations 51 mythologising 51 epigraphs 51 sensuous curves 51 sociopolitical commentary 51 sunniness 51 androgynously 51 Bucky Sinister 51 Tyrant Novel 51 youthful ardor 51 absurdism 51 Merry Widow Waltz 51 Dashiell Hammet 51 appealingly 51 Madison Smartt Bell 51 satirical wit 51 heartwarming tales 51 insipidity 51 epigrams 51 delightfully quirky 51 formalists 51 minimalist aesthetic 51 richly textured 51 catchy melodic 51 flowery prose 51 nu shu 51 hamminess 51 recognizably human 51 onomatopoetic 51 spellbindingly 51 fictionalized biography 51 suspenseful tale 51 percussiveness 51 inarticulateness 51 Mrs. Potiphar 51 sonic tapestry 51 Shakespeare sonnet 51 sparseness 51 Barrelhouse Blues 51 jazzy riffs 51 Nigel Farndale 51 instructively 51 whipsmart 51 Alphonse Karr 51 sonic collage 51 choreopoem 51 Dew Breaker 51 affectionate portrait 51 Robert Fagles 51 Whistling Season 51 subtextual 51 divertingly 51 overemphatic 51 unlikable character 51 breathiness 51 Schenkar 51 Fox Confessor 51 Dostoevski 51 Anais Nin 51 labyrinthine plot 51 laconic wit 51 beautifully photographed 51 Wartime Prayers 51 TS Eliot poem 51 avant gardism 51 Ghostwritten 51 artistic sensibility 51 Jordan Pettle 51 enthrallingly 51 Cookbook Collector 51 Douglas Sirk melodrama 50 bittersweet ode 50 mesmerizingly 50 Tharaud 50 obituarist 50 nameless narrator 50 wickedly clever 50 Fanny Burney 50 mythic resonance 50 vivaciously 50 Gravedigger Daughter 50 Laurie Colwin 50 ballet Pulcinella 50 Specimen Days 50 Truman Capote novella 50 bleakly comic 50 wistful melancholy 50 chicklit 50 harmonic vocabulary 50 angelic soprano 50 monologuist 50 engrossing tale 50 unconventionality 50 Horatio Alger tale 50 Ammaniti 50 journalese 50 rhythmic vitality 50 plainness 50 Queen Mab 50 Wullschlager 50 existential musings 50 Donald Harington 50 LeGuin 50 Millhauser 50 Orlandersmith 50 Bierds 50 lumpish 50 Hollywoodish 50 Enoch Arden 50 ballades 50 unknowability 50 Bernard DeVoto 50 Bel canto 50 rakish charm 50 overfamiliar 50 poetic lyrics 50 recites poetry 50 roguishness 50 sublimely silly 50 reductively 50 rumbling baritone 50 Germanic accent 50 explications 50 Yinglish 50 swooningly 50 Broadway.com Review 50 Tharp choreography 50 faux naïf 50 Rafael Yglesias 50 Miss Maudie 50 longueur 50 Trixie Belden 50 darkly witty 50 Max Beerbohm 50 autobiographic 50 jagged rhythms 50 Porcupine Quill 50 Alberto Manguel 50 Kent Haruf 50 melodic inventiveness 50 zanily 50 Flannery O'Conner 50 apercus 50 Kinks Lola 50 Caldecott Medalist 50 crisp diction 50 pellucid 50 Monk Mood 50 roman à clef 50 wryness 50 Orpheus myth 50 Oblomov 50 clever conceit 50 geometric patterning 50 formlessness 50 bodice ripper 50 Sophoclean 50 verbal dexterity 50 heartbreakingly beautiful 50 Disarmingly 50 supremely elegant 50 Kurtág 50 illustrator Edward Gorey 50 guileless charm 50 biography 50 Holmesian 50 Jerzy Kosinski 50 harrowing depiction 50 Ovid Metamorphosis 50 Giraudoux 50 piano accompaniments 50 characteristically understated 50 sans serif typeface 50 gothic melodrama 50 harmonically sophisticated 50 wry observations 50 Percy Bysshe Shelley 50 Zen koan 50 affable self deprecating 50 Denise Levertov 50 deliciously witty 50 Maeterlinck 50 Shelley Frankenstein 50 reviser 50 fictional sleuth 50 Pinteresque 50 Prosper Merimee 50 banally 50 serialist 50 dreamlike sequences 50 noir ish 50 sumptuous visuals 50 Slezkine 50 saturnine 50 Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy 50 Director Gregory Hoblit 50 authorial 50 visually inventive 50 emotive vocals 50 boundlessness 50 Edmund Spenser 50 slangy 50 Merilyn Simonds 50 polytonal 50 wordiness 50 limn 50 poetically 50 stylistic quirks 50 Au Hasard Balthazar 50 Visually stunning 50 grammatically correct sentences 50 gestural vocabulary 50 biblical allusions