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      The consummate "author's author" Stewart O'Nan

     
Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz

      Fellow Atticus Author Steve Himmer

      Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin

      LA Times Book Prize winner Philipp Meyer







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the great lenore is...

"Beautiful...in the same way that J.D. Salinger's books are beautiful."

~New York Journal of Books



"As gorgeous and enduring as a classic...I still feel the sea mist, still worry about the characters and their choices and still wonder about Lenore. This is a must-add to your summer reading list. "

~Marjean Murray



"Crafted with an expert's touch...you find yourself asking 'Why?' You rub your face. You hurt. You care."

~The Rookie Scrivener


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"...a page-turner that introduces the literary world to an author with a clear and profound appreciation for the American literary canon."

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"...perfect when you want to get absorbed in a book. It doesn’t so much take you away as take you into itself."

~Erin Reads



"...a book about life. It explores dreams, opportunity, and decisions. The characters make you feel; they take on a form outside the ink housing their DNA cells and become part of your daily interactions."

~Paul Joseph Writes



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What Is The Point Of Writing?

The Best Writing Advice. Ever.

The Ten Commandments Of Writing

The Biggest Mistakes Writers Make When Querying Agents

How We Arrived At The Publishing Deal For The Great Lenore

The Storyteller - A Community Storytelling Experiment!

If You Write Silly Puff Novels, Please, Keep Your Opinions To Yourself

A Query Letter That Works

The Top 2 Habits Of Amazing Writers

To Read...

(books i own and plan to read soon)

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Inferno
by Dante Alighieri

Honor Among Thieves
by Jeffrey Archer

Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess

Acts of Faith
by Philip Caputo

Lost Boys
by Orson Scott Card

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon

Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad

Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton

The Andromeda Strain
by Michael Crichton

Disclosure
by Michael Crichton

Charlie Wilson's War
by George Crile

Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe

White Noise
by Don DeLillo

Notes From Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamozov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas

Relativity
by Albert Einstein

Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers

Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Last Tycoon
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jack Daws
by Ken Follett

The Man From St. Petersburg
by Ken Follett

A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster

The Innocent Man
by John Grisham

Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson

A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking

Death In The Afternoon
by Ernest Hemingway

Winner Take Nothing
by Ernest Hemingway

The Iliad
by Homer

The Odyssey
by Homer

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo

The Quiet Game
by Greg Iles

A Prayer For Owen Meany
by John Irving

Ulysses
by James Joyce

Lake Wobegon Days
by Garrison Keilor

Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally

Desolation Angels
by Jack Kerouac

Fear and Trembling
by Soren Kierkegaard

Repetition
by Soren Kierkegaard

Either/Or
by Soren Kierkegaard

Wizard and Glass [Dark Tower Book IV]
by Stephen King

Wolves of the Calla [Dark Tower Book V]
by Stephen King

Song of Susannah [Dark Tower Book VI]
by Stephen King

The Dark Tower [Dark Tower Book VII]
by Stephen King

Different Seasons
by Stephen King

The Trap
by Tabitha King

A Wind In The Door
by Madeline L'Engle

A Drink Before The War
by Dennis Lehane

The Silver Chair
by C.S. Lewis

The Horse And His Boy
by C.S. Lewis

The Magician's Nephew
by C.S. Lewis

The Last Battle
by C.S. Lewis

The Armies of the Night
by Norman Mailer

The Mystery of Being [Volume 1: Reflection and Mystery]
by Gabriel Marcel

Suttree
by Cormac McCarthy

Saturday
by Ian McEwan

Moby Dick
by Herman Melville

Paradise Lost
by John Milton

Paradise Regained
by John Milton

Beloved
by Toni Morrison

Everything that Rises Must Converge
by Flannery O'Connor

The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama

1984
by George Orwell

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert Pirsig

Gravity's Rainbow
by Thoman Pynchon

Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand

Portrait of Hemingway
by Lillian Ross

Nine Stories
by J.D. Salinger

Slip and Fall
by Nick Santora

The Age of Reason
by Jean-Paul Sarte

Being and Nothingness
by Jean-Paul Sarte

Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare

The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair

Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck

The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck

The Red Pony
by John Steinbeck

The Moon Is Down
by John Steinbeck

Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula
by Bram Stoker

Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Walden
by Henry David Thoreau

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

The Witches of Eastwick
by John Updike

The Poorhouse Fair
by John Updike

Timequake
by Kurt Vonnegut

Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace

My Turn At Bat
by Ted Williams

To Buy...

(books i'd like to own)

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Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson

The New York Trilogy
by Paul Auster

The Sea
by John Banville

Factotum
by Charles Bukowski

Ham on Rye
by Charles Bukowski

Post Office
by Charles Bukowski

Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote

James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl

House of Leaves
by Mark Danielewski

Underworld
by Don Delillo

Falling Man
by Don Delillo

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
by T.S. Eliot

Collected Poems, 1909-1962
by T.S. Eliot

Imperial Bedrooms
by Bret Easton Ellis

Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis

Lunar Park
by Bret Easton Ellis

Glamorama
by Bret Easton Ellis

The Informers
by Bret Easton Ellis

Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison

The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford

Howl
by Allen Ginsberg

Tinkers
by Paul Harding

Horns
by Joe Hill

High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby

The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka

The Trial
by Franz Kafka

The Castle
by Franz Kafka

Amerika
by Franz Kafka

My Happy Life
by Lydia Millett

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
by Daniyal Mueenuddin

Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

The Violent Bear It Away
by Flannery O'Connor

them
by Joyce Carol Oates

Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
by Ezra Pound

The Cantos of Ezra Pound
by Ezra Pound

Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell

Requiem for a Dream
by Hubert Selby Jr

Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart

Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein
by Gertrude Stein

Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout

Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift

Rabbit, Run
by John Updike

Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh

The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton

The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe

Look Homeward, Angel
by Thomas Wolfe

Moldy Words...

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