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<url><loc>https://daveastoronliterature.com/2026/07/26/unlikable-characters-return-with-a-vengeance/</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>Dave Astor on Literature</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-07-26T11:14:34+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>Unlikable Characters Return with a Vengeance</news:title><news:keywords>authors, books, fiction, literature, novels, Donna Tartt, emile-zola, agatha-christie, hilary-mantel, wolf-hall, cormac-mccarthy, john-kennedy-toole, a-confederacy-of-dunces, and-then-there-were-none, shirley-jackson, andre-dubus-iii, house-of-sand-and-fog, daphne-du-maurier, the-secret-history, gone-girl, the-parasites, unlikable-characters-in-literature, unlikable-characters-in-fiction, gillian-flynn, we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle, blood-meridian, therese-raquin</news:keywords></news:news></url></urlset>
