#opening lines list

Source: Fassler, The Atlantic - 2013

• Red Harvest-Hammott (chosen by M. Abbott)
• The Long Goodbye - Chandler (C. Ardai)
• Moby-Dick - Melville (M. Atwood, D. GIlbert)
• A Bend in the River - Naipaul (P. Blauner)
• Parker Novels - Westlake (L. Block)
• A Vision of the World - Cheever (E. Canin) 
• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber - Hemingway (R. Carlson)
• One Lonely Night - M. Spillane (M. A. Collins)
• Ulysses - Joyce (L. Davis)
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce (M. Simpson)
• The Trial - Kafka (J. Franzen)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Chabon (R. Gay)
• Charlotte’s Web - White (A. S. Greer)
• The Magic Mountain - Mann (P. Hardy)
• The Last Good Kiss - Crumley (J. Starr)
• The Wrong Case - Crumley (L. Lippmann)
• Waiting for the Barbarians - Coetzee (A. Marra)
• Blood-Burning Moon, from Cane - Toomer (A. Mathis)
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers (A. Mathis)
• True Confessions - Dunne (S. J. Rozan)
• Lolita - Nabokov (J. Santofler)
• I Remember - Brainard (J. Torres)