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Articles and newsletters mentioned:
- Hermans and Le Carré (The Guardian)
- The Great Gatsby Glut (NYT)
- Read Like the Wind (Vulture)
- The State of the Literary Jonathans (Vanity Fair)
Books mentioned:
- John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Willem Frederik Hermans, The Darkroom of Damocles
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
- Elena Ferrante, The Lying Lives of Adults
- Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies; Matrix
- Yukito Ayatsuji, The Decagon House Murders.
- Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
- Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons
- Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch
- Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads; Purity; The Corrections
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