• Gilbert Sorrentino (April 27, 1929 – May 18, 2006) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, professor, and editor. In over...
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  • writer; son of Gilbert Claudio Sorrentino (1945–2021), Italian actor Dario Sorrentino (1957–2021), Italian medical researcher Domenico Sorrentino (born 1948)...
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  • Mulligan Stew is a postmodern novel by Gilbert Sorrentino. It was first published in 1979 by Grove Press, simultaneously in hardcover and softcover. The...
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  • Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, James Remar, Darren Aronofsky, Uli Edel, Gilbert Sorrentino, Nick Tosches, Jerry Stahl, Richard Price, Amiri Baraka, James Ragan...
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    Sorrentino (born May 20, 1963) is an American novelist and short story writer of Italian and Puerto Rican descent. He is the son of novelist Gilbert Sorrentino...
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    writers associated with this group (John Ashbery, Richard Brautigan, Gilbert Sorrentino, and so on) appear often on lists of postmodern writers. One writer...
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  • Edgar Wideman 1991: Alexander Theroux 1991: Sandra Cisneros 1992: Gilbert Sorrentino 1992: Frank Chin 1993: Paul West 1993: Carole Maso 1993: Denis Johnson...
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    Brooklyn Dodger, rented 178 Marine Avenue during the baseball season Gilbert Sorrentino (1929-2006), novelist, poet, and editor Janet Yellen (born 1946),...
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  • Coetzee 93 1953 More Than Human Theodore Sturgeon 94 1979 Mulligan Stew Gilbert Sorrentino 95 1929 Look Homeward, Angel Thomas Wolfe 96 1925 An American Tragedy...
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  • Shirley Hazzard The Transit of Venus Walker Percy The Second Coming Gilbert Sorrentino Aberration of Starlight John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces...
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  • Deconstruction). He was especially interested in the fictional works of Gilbert Sorrentino and Thomas Pynchon. Mackey was known as an ardent lover of music and...
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  • to offer scholarly background to the fiction, while others, like Gilbert Sorrentino in Mulligan Stew, use digression to prevent the functioning of the...
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  • stew (food), a hobo dinner dish Mulligan Stew (novel), a novel by Gilbert Sorrentino Mulligan Stew (TV series), a children's educational television series...
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  • Options Dan Sleigh, Islands José Carlos Somoza, The Athenian Murders Gilbert Sorrentino, Mulligan Stew Muriel Spark, The Comforters Peter Straub, In the Night...
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    got a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. My big influence there was Gilbert Sorrentino..." —Jenny Offill, to Ellen Birkett Morris Offill's first novel, Last...
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  • his first novel, Platitudes in a creative writing class taught by Gilbert Sorrentino. He is a professor of Professional Practice in the Graduate School...
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    authors, such as Don DeLillo, Paul Gallico (Poseidon Adventure), Gilbert Sorrentino, Gay Talese, Camille Paglia and Mario Puzo (The Fortunate Pilgrim)...
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  • survive long because he "just didn't have enough lung capacity". Gilbert Sorrentino, a childhood friend who had become a writer, encouraged Selby to write...
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  • Finnegans Wake." Rüdiger Imhof has noted how works by B. S. Johnson, Gilbert Sorrentino, Alasdair Gray and John Fowles carry explicit references to At Swim-Two-Birds...
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    such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, LeRoi Jones, Paul Blackburn, Gilbert Sorrentino, and Robert Creeley. After five issues, Padgett, on his way to college...
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    Brendan Behan, Paul Blackburn, LeRoi Jones, Christopher Morley, Gilbert Sorrentino, and George Jean Nathan, frequented the tavern. Folk singer/guitarist...
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  • contrabass written for SONOR Ensemble, a group formed by Rands. Text by Gilbert Sorrentino. Tableau (1970), for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, viola & cello...
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  • Year Winner Ref. 1980 Graham Greene 1981 Gilbert Sorrentino 1982 Robert Stone 1983 Doris Betts 1984 Tom Wolfe 1985 Russell Banks 1986 John Edgar Wideman...
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  • her marriage to Duke Alaric Morgan. It is also the last word in Gilbert Sorrentino's novel Little Casino (2002), probably in homage to Dahlberg. In poet...
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    when he sat down to write for publication." The American novelist Gilbert Sorrentino based his 1994 work Red the Fiend on Renard's Poil de carotte. For...
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  • the most radically disruptive books in American fiction since, say, Gilbert Sorrentino in a work like Mulligan Stew (1979)." As opposed to other reclusive...
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  • Park Rangers, stabbed. Robert Reid, 81, American chemical engineer. Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, American novelist. Yitzhak Ben Aharon, 99, Israeli left-wing...
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    Grace Paley. O'Brien voted for Aberration of Starlight (1980) by Gilbert Sorrentino. Orr voted for Little, Big (1981) by John Crowley. Roxana Robinson...
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  • Bottom's Dream Viktor Shklovsky, Theory of Prose and Energy of Delusion Gilbert Sorrentino, Blue Pastoral and Mulligan Stew Boris Vian, Heartsnatcher Douglas...
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  • bringing new critical attention to writers such as William Gaddis, Gilbert Sorrentino, Paul Metcalf, Nicholas Mosley, Donald Barthelme, and many others...
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