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American literature (n.) is like a teenager's diary, loud about freedom and anxious about who's watching.
American literature (n.) keeps writing the great novel about a man who reinvents himself and gets found out.
American literature (n.) is a country talking itself into being older than it is.
American literature (n.) is a lot of men deciding that the whale means something.
Autobiography (n.) is not about the months and years appearing; it is in the form they have at the moment of commemoration.
An Autobiography (n.) is rarely well-written — A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one . .
An Autobiography (n.) is something one writes only when they have lost all curiosity about the future.
Autobiography (n.) is not just about reminiscences, even extensive ones. It has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life, with all its moments and discontinuities.
Avant-garde literature (n.) is a book whose blurbs are easier to read than the book.
Avant-garde literature (n.) is taught a century later by the institutions it was written against.
Avant-garde literature (n.) is writing that arrives before its audience has manners for it.
Avant-garde literature (n.) is admired mostly in summary.
Biography (n.) is history seen through the prism of a person.
Biography (n.) is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
Biography (n.) is a form by which little people take revenge on big people.
Biography (n.) is cutting people down to size. Getting an unruly quart into a pint pot.
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