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Leigh Ledare
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Lucy Liu
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Susan Bernofsky
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Lydia Davis
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Gustave Flaubert
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Manuel Puig
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Samuel Beckett
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Bram Stoker
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Thomas Bernhard
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Sherwood Anderson
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Cate Blanchett
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Philip Larkin
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Seamus Heaney
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Lucien Clergue
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James Salter
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Ralph Gibson
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Amy Gerstler
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Juan Rulfo
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