contemplativea list of books mentioned in this video
"The Diary Of Anais Nin" Six Volumes Edited and with Preface by Gunther Stuhlmann
"Don Quixote" a novel by Miguel De Cervantes
"City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara" biography by Brad Gooch
"The Collected Poems Of Frank O'Hara" Edited by Donald Allen
"Seek My Face" a novel by John Updike
"Mary" a novel by Vladimir Nabokov
"Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America" memoir by Ann Powers
"Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1974-1954" Edited and with an introduction by Douglas Brinkley
"Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive biography" by Norman Mailer
"Proust: A Biography" by Ronald Haymann
"Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait" by Francis Steegmuller
"Mason & Dixon" a novel by Thomas Pynchon
"Ambassador's Journal" by John Kenneth Galbraith
"Hermits: The Insights of Solitude" by Peter France
"Henry Miller: Stories, Essays, Travel Sketches" by Henry Miller (The Most Comprehensive Anthology Of America's Great Writer)
"Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller" by Norman Mailer
"Aldous Huxley: A Biography" by Sybille Bedford
"Vladimir Nabokov: The Russians Years" biography by Brian Boyd
"Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years" biography by Brian Boyd
"The Nabokov-Wilson Letters 1940-1971" Edited by Simon Karlinsky
"King, Queen, Knave" a novel by Vladimir Nabokov
"Speak, Memory" An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
"Ada" a novel by Vladimir Nabokov
"Gary Snyder: Dimensions Of A Life" biography Edited by Jon Halper
"Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company" biography by James R. Mellow
"Blonde" a novel by Joyce Carol Oates
"Faulkner and the Short Story" literary study Edited by Evans Harrington & Ann J. Abadie
"You Must Remember This" a novel by Joyce Carol Oates
"The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance" by Leon Chai
"Robert Penn Warren: A Biography" by Joseph Blotner
"Odd Jobs: Essays And Criticism" by John Updike
"Edith Wharton: A Biography" by R.W.B. Lewis
"Henry James: A Life" by Leon Edel
"The Jameses: A Family Narrative" biography by R.W.B. Lewis
"Arcadia" a novel by Lauren Groff
"John James Audubon: The Making Of An American" biography by Richard Rhodes
"Aububon's Birds of America" Indroduction and Descriptive Captions by Ludlow Griscom
"The Web And The Rock" a novel by Thomas Wolfe
"Vernon God Little" a novel by DBC Pierre
"The Human Stain" a novel by Philip Roth
"The Seven Storey Mountain: An Autobiography Of Faith" by Thomas Merton
"Nana" a novel by Emile Zola
"Ourselves To Know" a novel by John O'Hara
"Sentimental Education" a novel by Gustave Flaubert
"The Bride and the Bachelors: Five Masters Of The Avant-Garde Duchamp, Tinguely, Cage, Rauschenberg, Cunningham" by Calvin Tomkins
"From The Terrace" a novel by John O'Hara
"The Art Of Burning Bridges: A Life Of John O'Hara" by Geoffrey Wolff
"Renoir, My Father" biography by Jean Renoir
"The Middle Heart" a novel by Bette Bao Lord
"How to Write" by Gertrude Stein
"The Philosophy of Modern Art" by Herbert Read
"Look at the Harlequins!" a novel by Vladimir Nabokov
"A Clockwork Orange" a novel by Anthony Burgess
"Gravity's Rainbow" a novel by Thomas Pynchon
"V." a novel by Thomas Pynchon
"Them" a novel by Joyce Carol Oates
"An Area Of Darkness" by V.S. Naipaul (A classic of modern Indian travel)
"Three Tales" by Flaubert
"Ethan Frome" a novel by Edith Wharton
"Lolita" a novel by Vladimir Nabokov
"Salammbo" a novel by Gustave Flaubert
"Boyhood: A Memoir" by J.M. Coetzee
"Bleak House" a novel by Charles Dickens
"Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce" by Brenda Maddox
"The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play" by Wallace Stevens Edited by Holly Stevens
"Permanence of Yeats" essays Editors James Hall & Martin Steinmann
"Yeats: The Man And The Masks" biography by Richard Ellmann
"Pensees" by Blaise Pascal
"Gone To New York: Adventures In The City" by Ian Frazier
"Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose" by Wallace Stevens
"The Colledted Poems" Wallace Stevens
"Selected Poems And Two Plays" by William Butler Yeats
"Yeats" Literary Study by Harold Bloom
"Essays And Introductions" by W.B. Yeats