Siri Hustvedt, The Blindfold (1st novel MM likes a lot) Ross Lockridge, Raintree County Thomas Hegan, Mr.

William Kotzwinkle, The Fan Man Ben Hogan's Power Golf Claire Bee's Chip Hilton series (children's?) Love and Death in the American Novel The Stranger in Shakespeare Waiting for the End Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading John Barth, The Floating Opera (Leslie Fiedler's favorite modern American First Novel) Stop-time Body and Soul Midair, Short storiesĪlfred Kazin, On Native Grounds Leslie Fiedler, critic Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead James Jones, The Thin Red Line Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night Joseph Heller, Catch-22 Frank Conroy, Iowa Writer's Workshop Palm Sunday, autobiographical War-Themed: Dan Simmons, Hyperion tetraologyĬat's Cradle Mother Night (book Moscowitz read on his trip to Iowa in search of Dal Mossman) - war memory A common theme that emerges is that of the Remarkable One Book Authors and Remarkable First Books

The film in its search for Dal Mossman, from the University of Iowa, in the Writer's Workshop, crosses the paths of other authors from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, advisors or facilitators of the workshop, librarians and libraries, and critics. For that book, due to be released in September, please go to Mark Moscowitz' site for the film, If you have a pop-up blocker on, right click on the book titles to read the information.įirst of all, of course, Stones of Summer, by Dal Mossman, the impetus for the film. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Ali Baba's Books: 'Stone Reader' Recommends Books and authors recommended by/in Mark Moscowitz' 'Stone Reader: The Search for Dal Mossman and The Stones of SummerĬlick on book titles below to enter Amazon books and read descriptions and reviews in cases where availability is limited, hardcover, softcover, and sources are linked.

Farragan's Retreat by Tom McHale