On Cult Books « Biblioklept
I’ve been reading a number of so-called “cult books” lately– William Gaddis’s The Recognitions, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, and John Crowley’s Little, Big. But I’m not really sure what a “cult book” might be. It got me to thinking, … David Foster Wallace’s Girl with Curious Hair, a book literally pressed on me my freshman year by a friend who simply could not believe I had never read Wallace . To some embarrassment, I suppose, Irvine Welsh. Thomas Pynchon. …
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