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kurt vonnegut
marilyn robinson
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herman melville
tobias wolff
flannery o'connor
cormac mccarthy
john barth
bill bryson
richard brautigan
vladimir nabokov
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carson mccullers
walker percy
david foster wallace
john fante
charles bukowski
sherwood anderson
paul auster
geoff dyer
harper lee
henry david thoreau
willa cather
saul bellow
charles portis
j.d. salinger
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john steinbeck
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