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  It is a cheap trick merely to surprise and shock the reader, especially at the expense of logic. And a lack of invention on the writers’ part cannot be covered up by sensational action and clever prose. It is also a kind of laziness to write the obvious, which does not entertain, really. The idea is an unexpected turn of events, reasonably consistent with the characters of the protagonists. Stretch the reader’s credulity, his sense of logic, to the utmost — it is quite elastic — but don’t break it. In this way, you will write something new, surprising and entertaining both to yourself and the reader. — Patricia Highsmith

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  • The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington

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    Collected Stories by Saul Bellow

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    The Early Stories: 1953-1975 by John Updike

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    The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel

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    Blue Angel: A Novel (P.S.) by Francine Prose

  Recent books:

  • An American Tragedy (Library of America #140) by Theodore Dreiser
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Max Beerbohm
  • The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Penguin Classics) by Joseph Conrad
  • What Maisie Knew (Penguin Classics) by Henry James

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