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John Updike

“In a way, what Melville did for whales, Updike did for upper-middle-class life in suburban America.”—Orhan Pamuk

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George S. Kaufman

Kaufman & Co.: Broadway Comedies

Jack Kerouac

Maxine Hong Kingston

The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life
The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Hawai‘i One Summer, Other Writings
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar & Peace Writing
Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can

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