Index 79
Bless Me, Ultima, 75
Bling, 64
Blonde, 289
Blonde Faith, 34, 75
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose,
1979–1985, 314
Blood, Tin, Straw, 65, 126
“Blood Bay, The,” 309
“Bloodchild,” 169
Bloodline, 232
Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness
in the West, 276
Blood Pressure, 62
BLOODS: An Oral History of the Vietnam
War, 148
Bloodshed and Three Novellas, 65
Blue Horses Rush In: Poems and Stories, 68,
116
Blue Iris: Poems and Essays, 65, 127
Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birthyear, The, 225
Blue Mountain, 145
blues, 6, 119, 349
Bluest Eye, The, 4, 24, 51, 283
Bly, Robert, 139, 145
bobrauschenbergamerica, 47
Bodies of Water, 61
Body Artist, The, 199
Body Rags, 126
Bohemian Club, 207
Bollingen Foundation Fellowship, 315
Bollingen Prize, 237
Bollywood Conf idential, 67
Bone-Sculpture, 124
Bone Dance: New and Selected Poems,
1965–1992, 107, 116
Bones, 139
Bonesetter’s Daughter, The, 67
Bonnefoy, Yves, 118
Book of Common Prayer, A, 204
Book of Daniel, The, 5, 131, 211
Book of Days, 49
Book of Etiquette, A, 45
Book of Folly, The, 127
Book of Illusions, The, 137
Book of Light, The, 61
Book of My Nights, 266
Book of Nightmares, The, 126
Book Rights Registry, 16
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country,
225
bookstores
mega, 15
Booth (character), 37
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New
Mestiza, 52, 59
Borders, 15
Border Trilogy (McCarthy), 69, 276
Borges, Jorge Luis, 17, 349
Born on the Fourth of July, 140, 147
Boston Marriage, 39
Boston University, 237, 259, 301
Boswell, Marshall, 337
Boutan, Beau (character), 233
Bowen, Kevin, 13, 140, 145
Bowker, Norman (character), 296
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, 164–168, 370
“Boy Shooting at a Statue,” 193
Boys in the Band, The, 38, 44
Boys of Winter, The, 48
Boy Willie (character), 349
Brada-Williams, Noelle, 260
Brady Bunch, The (television show),
154
Bram Stoker Award, 71
Branch Davidians, 11
Brandeis Creative Arts Medal, 315
Brandeis University, 314
Branding Iron Award, 70
“Brass Ring, The,” 175
Brautigan, Richard, 5
Brave Orchid (character), 249
Breakfast of Champions, 138
Breaking Away, 48
Breaking Dawn, 70
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary
African American Fiction, 26, 33
Breathing Lessons, 68
Breeze from the Gulf, A, 44
Breeze Swept Through, A, 68, 116
Breton, André, 17
Brewer (fictional location), 335
Bricolage, 369
Bridget Jones’s Diary, 369
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 138
Bright Lights, Big City, 15
Brighton Beach Memoirs, 6, 48
Bright Room Called Day, A, 255
Brin, David, 70
Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk, 37,
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