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From "The Bell Jar" to "Moneyball," from Gore Vidal to Tom Wolfe, countless books and authors have guest-starred on America's longest-running sitcom...
The focal point for the show's cultural awareness is, of course, Lisa, precocious bookworm and perennial conscience of the family, who laments that she's destined for a life without friends or, even worse, a life confined to "grown up nerds like Gore Vidal, and even he's kissed more boys than I have."
My appreciation for Lisa's bookishness led me and Michelle Legro of Lapham's Quarterly to create the Lisa Simpson Book Club, a single-serving Tumblr devoted to Lisa's ever-expanding catalogue and the best literary references in the show's history. Below, a selection of some of the best shoutouts to the world of literature.
