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433
      
Sonny Rollins, quoted in Ben Ratliff, “A Free Spirit Steeped in Legends,”
New York Times
438
      
D’Agata
439
      
“no ideas but in things”: William Carlos Williams,
Paterson
440
      
John Gardner,
On Moral Fiction
443
      
David Wojahn, “The Inside”
444
      
First part: Wallace, interviewed by Larry McCaffrey,
Review of Contemporary Fiction;
second part: Louise Glück,
Proofs and Theories
445–446
      
Lionel Trilling,
The Liberal Imagination
448
      
Borges,
Ficciones
450
      
Williams, quoted in Robert Coles,
Bruce Springsteen’s America
451
      
Gornick
452
      
Emerson
453
      
Emerson, except list of names
454
      
Heidegger
458
      
Nabokov,
Lolita;
in honor of the author’s Olympian hauteur, I corrected the grammar and punctuation.
459
      
Borges
461
      
Coetzee,
Doubling the Point
462
      
Oscar Wilde
467
      
Smith
468
      
New York Film Festival catalogue copy
469
      
Emerson
470
      
Yeats
472
      
Wilde, preface to
The Picture of Dorian Gray
474
      
Gornick
475
      
James Shapiro, “The Critic’s Teeth,”
New York Times;
Shapiro and I were colleagues on the National Book Award nonfiction panel a few years ago: all five of us utterly disagreed about what nonfiction was.
476
      
Samuel Butler
477
      
Anne Carson,
Glass, Irony, and God
478
      
Emerson
479
      
Raban,
Powells.com
interview
480
      
Montaigne
481
      
McElwee,
Cineaste
interview
482
      
Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Carson, Night by Night,”
New York Times
483
      
Lorin Stein, “Loves of the Lambs,”
New York Review of Books
484
      
Dan Georgakas, “The Art of Autobiography,”
Cineaste
485
      
Dickinson
488
      
Lopate
489
      
Yeats
491
      
Marshall
492
      
My crush? Sort of; more Paul Bravmann’s.
493
      
Mikhail Lermontov,
A Hero of Our Time
494
      
George Bernard Shaw
495
      
Dana
496
      
Dyer, self-interview
498
      
Keats
499
      
Emerson
501
      
Montaigne
502
      
Ad copy for
Curb Your Enthusiasm
510
      
My girlfriend and I shared the house with her brother; it was actually he who was wildly prolific all summer. Makes a better story the other way, though.
524–525
      
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
526
      
László Kardos, quoted in
More Reflections on the Meaning of Life
, ed. David Friend
527
      
Can’t quite remember where this is from, though it sounds like fourth-generation Sartre. Endless is the quest for truth.
528
      
Nietzsche
529
      
Woody Allen,
Side Effects
530
      
Tennessee Williams, preface to
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
531
      
Zadie Smith, “The Limited Circle Is Pure,”
New Republic;
“information bureau …”: Adorno
532
      
Nietzsche
533
      
Nirvana, “All Apologies”
534
      
Schopenhauer
535
      
Nabokov,
Pnin
538
      
Virginia Woolf,
A Room of One’s Own
539
      
Jean Cocteau
540
      
Robert Rauschenberg, quoted in Michael Kimmelman, “Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82,”
New York Times
541
      
Steinberg, quoted in Vonnegut
542
      
Denis Johnson, in conversation
543
      
Saul Bellow, “What Kind of Day Did You Have?”
544
      
Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
545
      
Barry Hannah, interviewed by James D. Lilley and Brion Oberkirch,
Mississippi Review
546
      
Jennifer Jason Leigh, quoted in Sylviane Gold, “Ready to Play Anyone but Herself,”
New York Times
547
      
Paul Elie,
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
548
      
Hass
549
      
Emerson
550
      
Adam Phillips,
Equals
551
      
Bellow, quoted at
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Culture/5286.htm
552
      
Beckett
554
      
Jim McBride,
David Holzman’s Diary
555
      
Robert Capa
556
      
Kierkegaard
557
      
Gass
558
      
Dillard, in praise of Maggie Nelson’s
The Red Parts
559
      
Gordon Lish, quoted in Amy Hempel, “Captain Fiction,”
Vanity Fair
560
      
D. H. Lawrence
561
      
Yeats
562
      
Emerson
563
      
Thomas Mann,
Tonio Kruger
564
      
Lopate
565
      
Ruth Behar,
The Vulnerable Observer
566
      
Flaubert,
The Writing Life
567
      
Antonin Artaud,
The Theater and Its Double
569
      
Bob Dylan, “Outlaw Blues”
570
      
The Wild Ones
571
      
King Lear
572
      
da Vinci
573
      
Prokofiev
574
      
Michelangelo
575
      
Nicholas Perricone, quoted in Alex Witchel, “Perriconology,”
New York Times Magazine
576
      
Vikram Chandra, quoted in Motoko Rich, “Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry’s Rules,”
New York Times
577
      
Goethe
588
      
O’Brien
589
      
Naipaul, quoted in James Wood, “Wounder and Wounded,”
New Yorker
590
      
First sentence: Benjamin
591
      
Richard Serra, quoted in Kimmelman, “At the Met and the Modern with Richard Serra,”
New York Times
592
      
Dyer
596
      
Marcus, “Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as We Know It,”
Harper’s
597
      
Robbe-Grillet
598
      
Gornick
599
      
Hannah
601
      
Williams,
Spring and All
602
      
Coetzee,
Summertime
603
      
Williams
604
      
Gornick
605
      
Sebald
606
      
All but last sentence: Naipaul, quoted in Donadio, “The Irascible Prophet,”
New York Times
607–608
      
Lopate
609
      
First five sentences except titles: D’Agata,
Collision
interview
610
      
Dyer,
Out of Sheer Rage
611
      
Except for titles, E. M. Cioran,
The Temptation to Exist
612
      
D’Agata,
The Next American Essay
613
      
Plutarch
614
      
Emerson
615
      
Gornick
616
      
Marcus, “The Genre Artist,”
Believer
617
      
Berger,
G
618
      
Carson,
Decreation

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