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  JEAN RHYS · Till September Petronella

  FRANZ KAFKA · Investigations of a Dog

  CLARICE LISPECTOR · Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady

  RYSZARD KAPUŚCIŃSKI · An Advertisement for Toothpaste

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  JOHN STEINBECK · The Vigilante

  FERNANDO PESSOA · I Have More Souls Than One

  SHIRLEY JACKSON · The Missing Girl

  Four Russian Short Stories

  ITALO CALVINO · The Distance of the Moon

  AUDRE LORDE · The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

  LEONORA CARRINGTON · The Skeleton’s Holiday

  WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS · The Finger

  SAMUEL BECKETT · The End

  KATHY ACKER · New York City in 1979

  CHINUA ACHEBE · Africa’s Tarnished Name

  SUSAN SONTAG · Notes on ‘Camp’

  JOHN BERGER · The Red Tenda of Bologna

  FRANÇOISE SAGAN · The Gigolo

  CYPRIAN EKWENSI · Glittering City

  JACK KEROUAC · Piers of the Homeless Night

  HANS FALLADA · Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

  TRUMAN CAPOTE · The Duke in His Domain

  SAUL BELLOW · Leaving the Yellow House

  KATHERINE ANNE PORTER · The Cracked Looking-Glass

  JAMES BALDWIN · Dark Days

  GEORGES SIMENON · Letter to My Mother

  WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS · Death the Barber

  BETTY FRIEDAN · The Problem that Has No Name

  FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA · The Dialogue of Two Snails

  YUKO TSUSHIMA · Of Dogs and Walls

  JAVIER MARÍAS · Madame du Deffand and the Idiots

  CARSON MCCULLERS · The Haunted Boy

  JORGE LUIS BORGES · The Garden of Forking Paths

  ANDY WARHOL · Fame

  PRIMO LEVI · The Survivor

  VLADIMIR NABOKOV · Lance

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  These essays appear in Your Silence Will Not Protect You published by Silver Press, 2017

  This selection first published 2018

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  ISBN: 978-0-241-33973-2