Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
“I did an Infinite Summer, but I took an experimental approach. I just read the footnotes. Have you read the exquisite forward by Dave Eggers?”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“How can I expect to produce the next great American novel without reading the first one? I feel like it has never been more relevant than it is today, what with the war and the peace and all.”
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
“The whale is a metaphor, you know?”
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
“Colonialism, you know?”
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
“Walter White…he is like THE REASON I started writing poetry..”
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
“I didn’t like it, but I think that’s because I’m a feminist.”
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“Keira Knightly wouldn’t have been my first choice for Anna.”
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