An essay collection with this title, which includes takedowns of Mad Men and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark among other "essays from the classics to pop culture," was written by noted UVA classics alum
An essay collection with this title, which includes takedowns of Mad Men and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark among other "essays from the classics to pop culture," was written by noted UVA classics alum Daniel Mendelsohn. The protagonist of a novel with this title repeatedly dreams of a faceless girl building a snow castle. In that novel of this title, the protagonist passes out giving oil rubs to a naked, scarred girl he keeps in his house. The line "They were, those people, a kind of solution" concludes a poem of this title shared by a novel pitting the Magistrate against Colonel Joll. For 10 points, give this title of a Constantin Cavafy poem later used for a novel by J. M. Coetzee.
An essay collection with this title, which includes takedowns of Mad Men and Spider-Man:
Waiting for the Barbarians