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Literary Man's healing list by Alex Perez

"The great American masculine writers lived in this space. A man is strong; a man is weak; a man laughs, a man cries; he’s masculine, but he’s not afraid of the feminine." Recommended reading from Alex Perez's essay "The Rage of Literary Man."

A Childhood

A Childhood
ByHarry Crews(Illustrations),Michael McCurdy(Illustrator)

23 Readers 3.9

Airships

Airships
ByBarry Hannah

1978 • 14 Readers • 232 pages 4

Big Bad Love

Big Bad Love
ByLarry Brown

4 Readers 5

Elbow Room

Elbow Room
ByJames Alan McPherson

28 Readers 3.7

Erasure

Erasure
ByPercival Everett

2001 • 177 Readers • 320 pages 4.3

Fat City

Fat City
ByLeonard Gardner

34 Readers 3.4

Last Evenings on Earth

Last Evenings on Earth
ByRoberto Bolaño

1997 • 30 Readers • 228 pages 3.5

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Nine Stories

Nine Stories
ByJ. D. Salinger

1950 • 216 Readers • 302 pages 3.9

Portnoy's Complaint

Portnoy's Complaint
ByPhilip Roth

1969 • 158 Readers • 296 pages 3.4

Preparation for the Next Life

2014 • 23 Readers • 432 pages 4

Rock Springs

Rock Springs
ByRichard Ford

1987 • 17 Readers • 235 pages 4.5

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
ByRichard Pevear(Translator),Anton Chekhov,+1 more

1903 • 120 Readers • 496 pages 4.2

The Collected Stories

The Collected Stories
ByLeonard Michaels

2007 • 2 Readers

The Fight

The Fight
ByNorman Mailer

1975 • 25 Readers • 234 pages 3.6

The Journals of John Cheever

9 Readers

The Men's Club

The Men's Club
ByLeonard Michaels

1981 • 2 Readers 4

The Pugilist at Rest

1993 • 9 Readers • 240 pages 3.5

The Sarah Book

The Sarah Book
ByScott McClanahan

2017 • 17 Readers • 150 pages 4.5

Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark

2 Southwestern Writers Collection Series, The Wittliff Collections

2013 • 2 Readers • 401 pages

Where I'm Calling From

Where I'm Calling From
ByRaymond Carver

1988 • 47 Readers • 448 pages 4.3