>>24500418
3/6 here:—


>1. Sylvia Plath, Applicant
Correct. From Ariel.

>2.
>the old phedinkus
>Runyon (over Twain; plus, Twain was a lover)
Right. From ‘Tobias The Terrible’. Small-town guy is sad because his GF thinks he's a wimp. He travels to the big city hoping to hobnob with gangsters and rehabilitate himself in her eyes. Visits gambling den. There's a police raid. All the gangsters give him their guns so they don't get pinched for carrying weapons. Tobias gets arrested with twelve guns on him and becomes a celebrity. Goes home and marries girl LIKE A BOSS.

I'm going to go on posting DR until people like him. Then once they like him I will go on posting him *because* they like him.

>4. must be Robert Burton, AM
Correct.

>7. Creepy. Going Highsmith, but it isn't one of the Ripleys
It isn't creepy! It's heartwarming. Well it could be creepy I suppose but it doesn't have to be. Not PH, anyway. This is a hard one.

>9. Dang, checked (the guesses): this isn't Henry James....
Lots of good stuff out there that isn't HJ.

>10.
>logic
>logic
>Wilkie Collins
Nope. Pretty much contemporaneous, though.

>>24480629

>97
>James Ellroy LA Confidential
Correct. Prostitutes who look like film stars should ring a bell from the film.

>89
>Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove
Correct. Lorena learns to read (and becomes a schoolteacher) in Streets Of Laredo, so she does eventually discover Gus’s parting words.