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Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith | Northwest Review Tracy K. Smith’s exquisite memoir Ordinary Light primarily traces three narrative threads—her relationships with her mother, with religion, and with...
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The Best Books About Books | Literary Hub I love books. More than anything else. More than food. Shit, more than cleanliness. More than friends (sorry, everyone). I’d rather read about a city than...
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Women Writers on Twitter: In Their Own Words | Literary Hub So, so proud of this piece. Literary Hub sent a series of open questions to writers, journalists, editors—women in and around the literary...
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Just Who is This Oscar Wilde Person, Anyway? | The Georgia Review, Summer ’15 My essay review of three books on Oscar Wilde––David M. Friedman’s Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of...
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In Praise of Unlinked Story Collections | Literary Hub But what I want to praise are collections in which the stories are unrelated, in which the characters are distinct, and the whole of the book...
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Happy Birthday, Gary Larson! | Literary Hub For exactly 15 years—from January 1, 1980 to January 1, 1995—Gary Larson wrote and drew The Far Side, a comic strip so funny and daring and biting that it...
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Genoa (1965) by Paul Metcalf | Northwest Review We as a nation would do well to follow the lead of Paul Metcalf, an experimental writer who died in 1999. His 1965 novel Genoa, reissued by Coffee House...
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Has Anyone Actually Read Infinite Jest? | Lit Hub Has Infinite Jest become the kind of book that people own but haven’t read? Is it like War and Peace or The Recognitions or Gravity’s Rainbow or...
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In Praise of the New Modernists | Literary Hub More recently—say, in the last 20 years or so—numerous so-called postmodern novels have contained this distinctly non-postmodern quality—not that the...
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Lucky Alan by Jonathan Lethem | PANK The short story form serves Jonathan Lethem well. An imagination and intellect as keen as fertile as Lethem’s can take any idea and run with it for as long as he...
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In Search of the Real Truman Capote | The Atlantic Music for Chameleons is Capote’s most idiosyncratic book, his flat-out weirdest, but it’s also his most honest, and, in many ways, his best. It’s a...
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The Time I Got Really Stoned and Interviewed Jesse Eisenberg | Literary Hub The idea of me interviewing Jesse Eisenberg for this website had been floating around for a while. At first I was going to do...
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Why Salman Rushdie Should Win the Nobel Prize in Literature | Literary Hub To recap: Rushdie is a politically engaged novelist whose books vividly evoke not only his homeland, India, but also London,...
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Here Be Dragons: On Literary Cartography | LA Review of Books An essay-review of Andrew DeGraff’s beautiful and witty book of literary maps Plotted: A Literary Atlas for LA Review of Books: “For...
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The Bearable Lightness of Joe Meno | Literary Hub I always feel a satisfying melancholy after finishing a great book, a wave of loss comes over me, yet too does a sense of accomplishment, of having...
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Roxane Gay Wins PEN Center USA’s Freedom to Write Award | Literary Hub You may know Roxane for her acclaimed novel An Untamed State or her bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist, or you may know her...
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An Interview w/ National Book Award-nominee Karen E. Bender | Literary Hub According to herself, Karen E. Bender feels “more natural” as a short story writer, and, according to me, she’s a fantastic...
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The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell | Literary Hub But as I read The Bone Clocks, and his latest novel Slade House, I realized that Mitchell now was after something grander and even more...
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So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano | Northwest Review of Books Modiano’s investigation into memory has earned him comparisons with Marcel Proust, but where In Search of Lost...
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Writers at Work | Literary Hub On 12 books and 4,500 pages of essay collections from Jessica Hopper, Richard Hell, Christopher Hitchens, Saul Bellow, Lillian Ross, John Lahr, Joni Tevis, Greil Marcus,...
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