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Can literary essays be a form of "creative writing"?   The Book of Life talks with Aranka Siegal, who shares some of the childhood memories upon which her award-winning books are based. Click here to listen. Also, visit The Book of Life's web page.  Novelist and critic Melvin Jules Bukiet knows a thing or two about literary ambition. Therefore we asked him to compile and annotate a list of his some of his favorites. Bukiet's choices, and his comments, follow.
BUKIET'S AMBITIOUS LIST 1. HARRY KAPLAN'S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND By Steve Stern Flooded Memphis is under water in an uncanny foreshadowing of Katrina-era New Orleans. Harry, an adolescent Jewish boy, is ferried to the dark side of Beale Street. There he meets Negroes and prostitutes as well as the the world's most fabulous talking boy. A delirious journey and extravagant language. 2. RED CAVALRY By Isaac Babel What could be more ambitious than a spectacled intellectual riding with Cossack marauders? Yet Isaac Babel did exactly that in the 1920's and chronicled his gruesome witnessings in very short of stories of gut-wrenching power. 3. IN THE DAYS OF SIMON STERN By Arthur A. Cohen No less than the Messiah appears on the Lower East Side. His saga is told by--who else?--his acolyte and PR man, blind Nathan. It's Gershom Scholem's The Mystical Messiah (arguably the most ambitious work of Jewish scholarship of the last century) turned to fiction. 4. "INNOCENCE," FROM STORIES IN AN ALMOST CLASSICAL MODE By Harold Brodkey Nothing like its title, Brodkey's story is about a young man's attempt to bring his cold girlfriend to orgasm. Twenty, thirty, however many densely packed pages of pure oral sex. Literally jaw-dropping. 5. PHILIP ROTH By Bess Roth Whatever she did, whatever she aspired to, the lady from Newark created the most fecund literary creature of our time. 
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