On Writers and Writing 2012 Desk Diary

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Fear of Flying (1973) is a revolutionary feminist novel that shocked the world in the 1970s with its open advocacy of female sexuality and independence. A classic of modern times, a book that fundamentally changed our understanding of sexuality.

Pustolovine Toma Sawyera

Mark Twain

Mark Twain's classic, set in the small Missouri town of St. Petersburg in the late 19th century. Through the eyes of mischievous boy Tom Sawyer, Twain imaginatively portrays boyhood, freedom, and adventures along the Mississippi River.

U Americi

Susan Sontag's latest novel, inspired by the real-life Polish woman Helena Modjeska. Sontag, through an ironic, erudite style, explores emigration as an existential escape: America is not a paradise, but a mirror of European weaknesses.

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Čistoća

Fourteen years after "Corrections" and five years after "Freedom," Franzen wrote another great novel, "his most intimate yet, in which he added some new tones to his voice.

Topaz

Topaz is a Cold War suspense novel by Leon Uris, published in 1967 by McGraw-Hill. The novel spent one week atop The New York Times Best Seller List, and was Uris's first New York Times number-one bestseller since Exodus in 1959.