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This is Norman Mailer’s library

>> No.19355966

>>19355950
hi mrs mailer can norman come out and play?

>> No.19357815

>>19357778
Jesus. Wtf happened to talk shows.

>> No.19357763

is this where based Mailer stabbed his wife

>> No.19357778
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>https://youtu.be/Nb1w_qoioOk
It's battle of the pseuds and Mailer is losing out to the fag and the old bag.
Nigga even gets mogged by the fucking midwit host, oh no no no.

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Hemingway’s

>> No.19358190

>>19358060
would love to know what old hemmie had in his shelfs

>> No.19358204

>>19358190
Not exactly what you asked for, but Hemingway recommended these books for aspiring writers

“The Blue Hotel” by Stephen Crane
“The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Hail and Farewell by George Moore
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Oxford Book of English Verse
The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson
The American by Henry James

>> No.19358219

>>19358204
Also
“Midshipman Easy” by Captain Marryat
“Frank Mildmay” by Captain Marryat
“Peter Simple” by Captain Marryat
“L’Education Sentimentale” by Flaubert
“Portrait of the Artist” by James Joyce
“Le Rouge et Le Noir” by Stendhal
“La Chartreuse de Parme” by Stendhal
“Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain
“Autobiographies” by W.B. Yeats
“All the good Kipling”
“All of Turgenev”
“The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James
“The Portrait of a Lady” by Henry James

>> No.19358522
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IKEA has ruined personal libraries

>> No.19358546

>>19357815
People's tastes moved away from the more mellow, gentlemanly appeal of guys like Cavett and Carson to the hyper, silly appeal of guys like Fallon and Oliver.
idk why though...maybe it had something to do with Conan, who is pretty wacky and self-depricating/silly but imho these new guys have none of his charm lmao.

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>>19358522
I HATE BILLY I HATE BILLY

>> No.19358586

>>19355950

>cluttered shit hole

impressive

>> No.19358656

>>19355950
What's with the glass unicorn?

>> No.19358658
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George Martin's. Notice the lack of books, he's just a manchild.

>> No.19358659

>>19358522
Holy onions

>> No.19358667

>>19358522
this is just female autism, nothing to sperg out about

>> No.19358687

>>19358204
>>19358219
Thanks for sharing.

>> No.19359780

>>19358060
that big bookcase looks like its gonna fall

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>> No.19360251

>>19358204
>>19358219
He also thought that O. Henry's stories were essential.

>> No.19360269

>>19360233
Who’s that?

Also, How can intellectuals afford big houses with dedicated studies and libraries? I thought you earned dogshit from being an academic and an author of literary fiction

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claude levi-strauss

>> No.19360272

>>19360233
holy shit clean your room anon

>> No.19360276

>>19360269
houses used to be cheap

>> No.19360289

>>19360269
most tenured professors have comfy houses in college towns.

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>>19358522
globohomo Swedish interior design chad reporting in

>> No.19360797

>>19360270
Meh

>> No.19360853

>>19358522
>NOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST LIKE HARRY POTTERINO IT'S LE CRINGE AND LE POPULAR

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Umberto Eco had a huge stockpile of shit, he must have spent a good third of each day reading to manage it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czc_KjWji8E