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January 30th, 2012

Write What You Don’t Know

Ann Beattie’s collagist new novel, Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, questions the inherent value of fiction. …more

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July 11th, 2011

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

In her new book, The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson draws upon a wide range of work (from Diane Arbus to Brian Evenson to name just two) as she grapples with what cruelty means and how its representation impacts us.

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February 22nd, 2011

THE BLURB #21: This Is Your Brain—on Books, on Screens

Will the ironies that plague the demise of print never end? …more

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December 21st, 2010

You Know Nothing of My Work!

Douglas Coupland’s new biography of Marshall McLuhan bends the rules of the medium—but what, exactly, is the message? …more

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May 13th, 2010

From Russia with Love

Elif Batuman offers a rogue’s gallery of Russian writers, scholars, and literary characters—the only oddball missing is herself. …more

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Thomas Larson is the author of The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings." His previous book, The Memoir and the Memoirist, is in its third printing. He's also a journalist for The San Diego Reader.

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