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Bellow in His Dream Car: An
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695:Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather
683:Debriefing: Collected Stories of Susan Sontag,
612:, was published in May 2020 by Penguin Books.
604:Debriefing: Collected Stories of Susan Sontag,
583:a memoir of one year in Taylor's childhood in
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1058:"The Epistolary Adventures of Saul Bellow"
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523:was also named a Best Book of 2012 by
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1052:"Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor"
550:Taylor's biography of Marcel Proust,
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503:Benjamin Taylor's travel memoir,
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