David Duchovny
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5 Books That Made A Difference to David Duchovny
The sexy bad boy of Californication —Agent Mulder, to X-Files fans—enjoys brilliant essays and American authors with provocative conspiracy theories.
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Split Screen
… the multiplex: Having narrowly escaped an icy Antarctic death in the first X-Files movie, Mulder and Scully ( David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) give us the shivers again in the snowbound sequel The X-Files: I Want to Believe. At the …
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The Crying of Lot 49
Pynchon's satirical, weirdly inventive novel centers on Oedipa Maas, a woman who stumbles onto what may or may not be a wide-reaching conspiracy by a secret mail-delivery organization. It's a wild ride, but at its core, it is a surprisingly poignant story
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Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Duchovny calls Emerson the American Nietzsche. "I think he's kind of underrated as a philosopher." His essays provide a counterbalance to today's shrill public discourse. Also, they fit into a busy schedule.
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American Tabloid
Set during the Kennedy administration, this novel imagines a country covertly controlled by rogue intelligence and law enforcement officers.
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The Great Gatsby
It's about the human imagination being sparked by nature and God, but also by this woman." What's more, the story seems to tell itself.
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American Pastoral
"It is epic in that it encapsulates America in the 20th century," Duchovny says of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The story, which takes place in the Jewish community of Newark, New Jersey, in the era after WWII, examines the American dream as pursued
