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The Book You Would Like to Be Written

An Ongoing Survey

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  1. A Call for Submissions
  2. Contribute your own suggestion
  3. Index of Contributors
  4. Index of Titles
  5. Index of Authors
  6. Start reading
  7. Bibliography
  8. Letters to The Seven by Nine Squares about The Book You Would Like to Be Written

A Call for Submissions

In April 1995, the following request was posted to several mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups: 

To: ht_lit@spiff.ccs.carleton.ca, pynchon-l@sfu.ca
From: cantsin@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Florian Cramer)
Subject: SURVEY: Which book would you like to be written?
Sender: ht_lit-Owner@spiff.ccs.carleton.ca
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: ht_lit@spiff.ccs.carleton.ca

AN INQUIRY INTO POTENTIAL LITERATURE
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For the "imaginary library" research section 
of my Web site "The Seven by Nine Squares," I greatly 
welcome any answers to the question:

  >> Which book would you like to be written?

I first presented this problem to Harry Mathews at 
Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and had further disputes with 
Al Ackerman, John Berndt, Arthur Berkoff and Philippe Billé 
who conducted a survey of favourite readings for his paper 
"Lettre Documentaire."

Please post your reply by e-mail, too, and it will be incorporated 
into the Seven by Nine Squares.

Cramer.

Readings: