Thursday, October 6, 2011

Straight Man


Book Menu for Straight Man by Richard Russo

ISBN of edition I read: 0375701907 (trade paperback)

Food mentioned in Straight Man:
Coffee, 14, 26
Cookies, 26
Popcorn, 70
Tea, 75
Peach, 75
Corned beef sandwich, 79
Pimento cheese spread sandwich, 91
Beer, 116
Margaritas, 116
Pancakes, 140
Scrapple, 182
Iced tea, 255
Cream soda, 272
Prime rib, 310
Sugar Pops, 327

Books/Authors mentioned in Straight Man:
The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald, xi, 128, 155
Stephen Spender, 1, 207
Mark Twain, 16
   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 43
   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 67, 144
On the Road / Jack Kerouac, 27
The Red Badge of Courage / Stephen Crane, 41
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 53
The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne, 53
Bartleby / Herman Melville, 53
Ernest Hemingway, 98, 346
William Shakespeare
   MacBeth, 100, 203
   King Lear, 334
D.H. Lawrence, 136
Emily Dickinson, 145
William Butler Yeats, 149
James Joyce, 149, 343
Sean O'Casey, 149
Charles Dickens, 158, 213
   Oliver Twist, 158
   David Copperfield, 214
James Thurber, 203
Moby-Dick / Herman Melville, 218
Virginia Woolf, 259
Bronte sisters, 259
Joseph Conrad, 259
Marcel Proust, 343
H.L. Menchen, 373
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 381
Beowulf, 385

Music mentioned in Straight Man:
Rigoletto (opera) / Verdi, 109
"Gimme Some Lovin'" / Spencer Davis Group, 123
"Just One of Those Things" / Cole Porter, 132
Buffalo Springfield, 177
Patsy Cline, 180
   "Crazy", 342
Willie Nelson, 181
Johnny Mathis, 184
Everly Brothers, 272