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Hemon 50 fictionalize 50 allusiveness 50 impressionistically 50 narrative arcs 50 Oedipus myth 50 exhaustively researched 50 mise en scene 50 dryly witty 50 psychological acuity 50 wonderfully readable 50 limning 50 pastiche 50 ruminative 50 mawkishness 50 wonderfully evocative 50 sly wit 50 Madison Smartt Bell 50 Gothic horror 50 Millhauser 50 Widow Story 50 rigorously researched 50 surrealism 50 Ebershoff 50 Flaubert 50 diaristic 50 idiosyncratic 50 Nabokov Lolita 50 dystopian sci fi 50 Specimen Days 50 nouveau roman 50 avoids sentimentality 49 VS Pritchett 49 sardonic humor 49 compulsively readable 49 densely plotted 49 postmodernist 49 limns 49 overly melodramatic 49 impressionistic portrait 49 overfamiliar 49 theatricality 49 unabashedly sentimental 49 representational painting 49 fabulist 49 narratives 49 absurdist humor 49 hagiographical 49 Dew Breaker 49 artful 49 Capra esque 49 decidedly unsentimental 49 epistolary 49 Marías 49 transcendentalist 49 poetics 49 formalist 49 stylisation 49 emotional heft 49 Flaubert Madame Bovary 49 Bergmanesque 49 visually ravishing 49 playwright Donald Margulies 49 masterful storytelling 49 avant gardism 49 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 49 absurdism 49 Benito Cereno 49 Dostoevskian 49 Proustian 49 satiric 49 film noir 49 illuminatingly 49 Swiftian 49 Louvish 49 Abstinence Teacher 49 Echo Maker 49 engagingly 49 self reflexive 49 Bezmozgis 49 Philip Lopate 49 Georgette Heyer 49 novel Housekeeping 49 DeLillo 49 intricately layered 49 Pesthouse 49 Rashomon style 49 unflinching honesty 49 faux naif 49 expository 49 doubleness 49 dialogue crackles 49 wryness 49 Baricco 49 thematic coherence 49 Marivaux 49 novelist 49 Collected Stories 49 unconventionality 49 Dostoyevskian 49 rhyming verse 49 self reflexivity 49 evocation 49 aestheticized 49 Edmund Spenser 49 Gravedigger Daughter 49 Loncraine 49 interweaving 49 Jean Claude Carrière 49 poetic imagery 49 St. Urbain Horseman 49 ludic 49 vivid evocation 49 riveting 49 dialogic 49 uncinematic 49 stylistic 49 Gaitskill 49 Pelevin 49 Pérez Reverte 49 espionage thrillers 49 fictional 49 tautly constructed 48 Emily Brontë 48 Hugh Whitemore 48 improvisatory 48 Némirovsky 48 cartoonishness 48 Etzioni Halevy 48 beautifully wrought 48 Holmesian 48 Alan Furst 48 Aristotle Poetics 48 character arcs 48 Exit Ghost 48 Chang rae Lee 48 literalness 48 darkly humorous 48 literalized 48 seeming effortlessness 48 perspectival 48 rhapsodic 48 dandyism 48 Pessl 48 Winesburg Ohio 48 Schubertian 48 miniaturist 48 weaves tale 48 Hitchcock Rear Window 48 deftly weaves 48 cogitations 48 Partisan Daughter 48 diagrammatic 48 mordant 48 chiaroscuro 48 fictionalized autobiography 48 finely etched 48 Mary Gaitskill 48 Impressionistic 48 Anita Brookner 48 cinema vérité 48 whimsy 48 nonfiction bestseller 48 Donna Tartt 48 Hitchcockian 48 sly humor 48 moral ambiguity 48 densely layered 48 Palahniuk 48 overemphatic 48 po mo 48 filmable 48 Håfström 48 Orpheus myth 48 richly imaginative 48 blackly humorous 48 evocative 48 unsentimental 48 alternating chapters 48 Vertov 48 limn 48 pointillistic 48 medias res 48 existential anguish 48 stagy 48 nuanced 48 nuanced portrait 48 vividly captures 48 Mervyn Peake 48 Italo Calvino 48 autobiographical essays 48 Pregnant Widow 48 evocations 48 hyper realism 48 John LeCarre 48 Rita Charon 48 Masterfully 48 Ordinary Heroes 48 stylistics 48 contextualizes 48 darkly poetic 48 Unaccustomed Earth 48 wry wit 48 Posy Simmonds 48 Eimbcke 48 hagiography 48 nonfiction 48 liminality 48 boiled noir 48 Brontë sisters 48 graphic novel Maus 48 wholly believable 48 La Boheme Baz Luhrmann 48 Hemingwayesque 48 objective correlative 48 Mrs Dalloway 48 Javier Marías 47 Barthes 47 hyperrealism 47 Paul Bernbaum 47 Kubrickian 47 Dessaix 47 Roiphe 47 breakneck pacing 47 Cinematically 47 Painted Drum 47 Tarantino esque 47 mimesis 47 Imperfect Birds 47 minute intermissionless 47 melodrama 47 mordant wit 47 Loren D. Estleman 47 Joycean 47 mordantly funny 47 expressionist 47 Penelopiad 47 chronological 47 dreamlike sequences 47 self referential humor 47 subtly nuanced 47 dramaturgical 47 Trezza Azzopardi 47 confessional songwriting 47 Imperfectionists 47 archness 47 Jerzy Kosinski 47 SN Behrman 47 psychoanalytic 47 exquisitely rendered 47 Ammaniti 47 sentimentalized 47 ironic detachment 47 imagist 47 explicates 47 novel Divisadero 47 Ronald Firbank 47 incantatory 47 dystopian vision 47 philosophical musing 47 Beethovenian 47 Len Deighton 47 Benjamin Markovits 47 X'ed Out 47 Homeric epic 47 WG Sebald 47 Dos Passos 47 epigraph 47 allusive 47 page turner 47 Austen novels 47 familial dysfunction 47 Director Gregory Hoblit 47 Slawenski 47 Sonderberg Case 47 philosophical ruminations 47 lush orchestral 47 profundity 47 Tomine 47 neorealism 47 Mozartian 47 uncanniness 47 richly evocative 47 Baroque Cycle 47 Herzogian 47 Inherent Vice 47 unashamedly sentimental 47 portentousness 47 masterly 47 Antonya Nelson 47 nuance 47 ambivalences 47 metanarrative 47 Magical realism 47 Wildean 47 unnamed narrator 47 supernatural overtones 47 von Mahlsdorf 47 vérité style 47 grittily realistic 47 stylization 47 droll 47 finely nuanced 47 reductive 47 fin de siecle 47 Ellingtonian 47 inescapability 47 Junot Díaz 47 master storyteller 47 Robert Ludlum novel 47 Bright Shiny Morning 47 sentimentalize 47 Camera Lucida 47 roundelay 47 Evelyn Waugh 47 acidulous 47 allegorical tale 47 languid pacing 47 intricately constructed 47 epigraphs 47 sardonically funny 47 plotwise 47 refreshingly straightforward 47 savage satire 47 Techine 47 darkly satirical 47 mythic 47 escapist fiction 47 allegory 47 unbearably sad 47 attraction repulsion 47 child's eye view 47 plain spokenness 47 Almereyda 47 datedness 47 highbrow lowbrow 47 Anaïs Nin 47 Cotard 47 bravura 47 Martha Gellhorn 47 Italian giallo 47 heavily footnoted 47 wry humor 47 Verdian 47 neo realism 47 noir detective 47 expositional dialogue 47 elegaic 46 Pressfield 46 urbane wit 46 banal 46 Alfred Kazin 46 ungraspable 46 vivid descriptions 46 prose poem 46 psychohistory 46 antiheroic 46 Brontës 46 Kehlmann 46 tragi comedy 46 unflinchingly honest 46 Nancy Mitford 46 deftly captures 46 illusionistic 46 David Mazzucchelli 46 Christopher Guest mockumentaries 46 Stoppard 46 terseness 46 counterplots 46 narratively 46 André Bazin 46 Tolkien esque 46 nonfiction filmmaking 46 neo realist 46 contempo 46 Kunzru 46 verité style 46 verite 46 densely textured 46 Charlotte Brontë classic 46 historiographical 46 academicism 46 Un Lun Dun 46 mytho poetic 46 lyrical passages 46 painstakingly researched 46 visuality 46 Laurence Sterne 46 Darkness Visible 46 easeful 46 Ian McEwan novel 46 Odyssean 46 screwball comedy 46 John Updike Rabbit 46 screenwriter Deborah Moggach 46 cinematically 46 fictions 46 stagey 46 Dercourt 46 Breillat 46 Flaubert Parrot 46 tragicomedy 46 Guare 46 Van Dormael 46 Estleman 46 graceful prose 46 interweaves 46 Gum Thief 46 vivid portrait 46 Peter Ackroyd 46 ethereality 46 rhymed verse 46 Chabon 46 bravura filmmaking 46 intertwines 46 unremittingly bleak 46 retelling 46 auteurism 46 Grand Guignol 46 florid prose 46 literal minded 46 drollness 46 Larry McMurtry novel 46 absorbingly 46 performativity 46 Tolstoyan 46 bathos 46 Shteyngart 46 Python esque 46 Mrs. Dalloway 46 Melville Moby Dick 46 Tyrant Novel 46 García Márquez 46 craftsmanlike 46 playwright Robert Schenkkan 46 sumptuous visuals 46 Slouching Towards Bethlehem 46 novelists 46 textural richness 46 literary fiction 46 Edith Wharton novel 46 cleareyed 46 Gothic melodrama 46 Márai 46 Mr. Sammler Planet 46 Aleichem 46 profoundest 46 Anthologist 46 Barthelme 46 opera libretto 46 wryly humorous 46 Kepesh 46 De Quincey 46 Buñuel 46 cleverly woven 46 pulp noir 46 acutely perceptive 46 Panych 46 Mary Shelley Frankenstein 46 talky 46 Arturo Pérez Reverte 46 Ophüls 46 Jacob de Zoet 46 self dramatizing 46 minutely observed 46 lyrical sensibility 46 Raymond Carver 46 subtly shaded 46 semiautobiographical 46 Larry Beinhart 46 Dostoevsky novel 46 Feiffer 46 Mozartean 46 What Maisie Knew 46 readable biography 46 wry 46 Lindsay Abaire 46 LeCarre 46 copiously illustrated 46 jeu d' esprit 46 fleetly 46 aperçu 46 Aciman 46 neo noir 46 Whistling Season 46 emotionally resonant 46 artfulness 46 virtuosic 46 evocative imagery 46 belabors 46 Alphonse Daudet 46 faux naïf 46 sociopolitical commentary 46 Don Delillo 46 concreteness 46 Resnais 46 Shiva Naipaul 46 Ethan Canin 46 hagiographic 46 Etienne Comar 46 l' amour fou 46 screwball romantic comedy 46 richly detailed 46 coloristic 46 foregrounding 46 digressions 46 con brio 46 visually inventive 46 Abdel Raouf Dafri 46 speculative fiction 46 intimate camerawork 46 Lisztian 46 interweave 46 seeming contradictions 46 wry witty 46 cleverly plotted 46 Max Beerbohm 46 Téchiné 46 naturalistically 46 George Eliot Middlemarch 46 literary novelists 46 gothic horror 46 scholarly tomes 46 Tirard 46 self referential 46 Lewycka 46 darkly comical 46 Fabulist 46 grows wearisome 46 Cesare Pavese 46 overwrought prose 46 wonderfully imaginative 46 Henryson 46 structuralist 46 geometric abstraction 46 Joyce Dubliners 46 Dr. Preeti Kishore 46 Cervantes Don Quixote 46 melancholic 46 subtlety 46 uninvolving 46 Jane Hirshfield 46 photojournalistic 46 seamlessly weaves 46 Daphne Merkin 45 neoclassicism 45 minutely detailed 45 unshowy 45 bodice rippers 45 unheroic 45 Mieville 45 soap operatic 45 précis 45 compellingly 45 Walter Pater 45 Larry McMurtry 45 Isaac Babel 45 quiddity 45 Mavis Gallant 45 bitingly satirical 45 Studs Lonigan 45 Lispector 45 Théophile Gautier 45 dramatist 45 Wineapple 45 metaphysical 45 metaphoric 45 Chéreau 45 theatricalized 45 philosopher Henri Bergson 45 vérité 45 blackly funny 45 indeterminacy 45 cinematic storytelling 45 effaces 45 copious footnotes 45 serialized storytelling 45 interwoven storylines 45 maudlin sentimentality 45 chicklit 45 Monty Python esque 45 Komunyakaa 45 novellas 45 self mythologising 45 poetic monologues 45 gripping tale 45 psychological thrillers 45 Arabian Nights tales 45 Imperial Bedrooms 45 Philippa Gregory novel 45 novelette 45 Hollywood ized 45 witty wordplay 45 vampire lore 45 Wordsworthian 45 Foreskin Lament 45 surrealistic 45 bathetic 45 le Carre 45 titular protagonist 45 Drood 45 jokiness 45 repressed sexuality 45 triteness 45 LeDray 45 masterwork 45 autobiographical writings 45 didactically 45 Auster 45 foregrounds 45 sparseness 45 Douglas Hofstadter 45 hyperreal 45 Mallarmé 45 transgressive 45 playwright screenwriter 45 introductory essay 45 virtually plotless 45 acerbity 45 Aaron Sorkin screenplay 45 Rappeneau 45 Gombrowicz 45 Kristeva 45 novel Mrs. Dalloway 45 Yiddish Policemen Union 45 psychogeography 45 vividly evoked 45 unsentimental portrait 45 autobiographer 45 Daniel Deronda 45 snappy dialogue 45 fictionalized biography 45 bleakly humorous 45 Georges Simenon 45 theatrical artifice 45 Santlofer 45 become inexorably intertwined 45 bitingly funny 45 picaresque tale 45 Lonely Crowd 45 Uncommon Reader 45 visceral immediacy 45 Ryszard Kapuscinski 45 deliciously witty 45 Anathem 45 Divina Commedia 45 thinly sketched 45 sestina 45 mythic resonance 45 hallucinatory 45 Roland Barthes 45 arcs 45 sentimentalizing 45 disjunctions 45 Goldengrove 45 Rechy 45 Choderlos de Laclos 45 phantasmagoria 45 pulpy 45 overpainting 45 John le Carré 45 utterly captivating 45 throughline 45 betweenness 45 droll deadpan 45 metrical 45 nature morte 45 overplotted 45 Tresnjak 45 episodic 45 Strivers Row 45 thematic resonance 45 Dashwood sisters 45 nuanced portrayal 45 thinly fictionalized 45 self referentiality 45 Groag 45 viscerally thrilling 45 harmonic sophistication 45 Stead intricate 45 factuality 45 Lucy Grealy 45 afterword 45 thematically linked 45 Bolaño 45 Breathe Underwater 45 rhymed couplets 45 delicately wrought 45 Foucheux 45 fictionalized memoir 45 formlessness 45 Kavenna 45 talkiness 45 unembellished 45 interwoven narratives 45 dew breaker 45 heartbreakingly poignant 45 verite style 45 Zafón 45 Shock Corridor 45 visually sumptuous 45 Pulitzer prizewinning 45 wickedly funny 45 formalists 45 neo Romantic 45 hyper realist 45 Maisie Dobbs 45 suspenseful 45 slyly funny 45 Machinal 45 musicianly 45 Twilight Zone ish 45 artfully constructed 45 Buru Quartet 45 Kore eda 45 elaborately plotted 45 elliptically 45 archaisms 45 trenchant wit 45 Harlequin Romance 45 Ruders 45 musicalized 45 realism 45 theorization 45 absurdist playwright 45 Nesbø 45 mythmaking 45 overt theatricality 45 Agatha Christie whodunit 45 Whitmanesque 45 utterly engrossing 45 creator Jenji Kohan 45 reportorial 45 Schenkkan 45 Imaginatively 45 policier 45 Dashiell Hammet 45 opera buffa 45 Shakespearean 45 shaggy dog 45 bewitchment 45 poetic flourishes 45 novel Madame Bovary 45 Amenábar 45 poeticize 45 Toibin 45 Lorrie Moore 45 playlet 45 mannerist 45 slyness 45 Bezucha 45 Chrysanthemum Palace 45 ephemerality 45 pensiveness 45 child's eye 45 Hemingway esque 45 propulsive 45 vaguely autobiographical 45 Vile Bodies 45 florid descriptions 45 contemplative 45 exquisitely nuanced 45 inwardness 45 Clayton Frohman 45 boundlessness 45 Crabwalk