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Adam Keller

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Adam Keller is a Wesleyan graduate currently based in Oakland, California. He's a founding editor of REELYDOPE and used to write for The Argus.
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Walk-In Closets

  • Adam Keller
  • November 4, 2016
We seem to find ourselves, as writers, standing amidst the last century’s discarded tropes of sexual identity. Recently, writers of all sexual permutations have been recycling this narrative architecture; reworking…
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Investigating the Network Form

  • Adam Keller
  • November 4, 2016
At the Los Angeles Review Of Books, Mary Pappalardo reviews Patrick Jagoda’s Network Aesthetics, an examination of networked art from Syriana to alternate reality games: Networked narrative forms—the novel, the…
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Ordinary (French) People

  • Adam Keller
  • October 28, 2016
If some have trouble coming to terms with what Mège has made or done, it could be useful to think of her work, as conceptual as it might be, as…
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Term Paper of Champions

  • Adam Keller
  • October 28, 2016
At Open Culture, Ayun Halliday introduces Kurt Vonnegut’s final assignment for his Iowa Writer’s Workshop class. Instead of a conventional essay, Vonnegut asks his students to role-play as short story…
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Shakespearacy Theory

  • Adam Keller
  • October 28, 2016
The New Oxford Shakespeare will credit Christopher Marlowe as a co-writer on all three parts of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, reports Dalya Alberge for the Guardian. In other news, the Illuminati have bought…
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Transportation Sobriety Assistance

  • Adam Keller
  • October 21, 2016
Writing for The Awl, Kristi Coulter gives sound advice on how to avoid airport bars: Once you’ve left the multiplex, you can swing by the Puppy Zone, or curl up…
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Leopard Print

  • Adam Keller
  • October 21, 2016
I couldn’t believe there could be a famous book that was so radically unsatisfying. I remember thinking, how can he even be a famous author if he fucks you over…
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You Cross Me, and There Will (Not) Be Consequences

  • Adam Keller
  • October 21, 2016
Zines come and go. Editors move around. It’s rare that a story can’t possibly sell to anyplace but Grandiose Editor’s Power Trip Quarterly. I know when you’re new, anyone ahead…
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Engdahl’s Game

  • Adam Keller
  • October 14, 2016
Another year, another Nobel Prize in Literature not given to Don DeLillo. At The New Republic, Alex Shephard argues that DeLillo should have been a contender: …of all the leading American Nobel…
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Born-Again Penguins

  • Adam Keller
  • October 14, 2016
If you could only bring one book to a remote island infested by penguins, what would it be? The Paris Review’s Dan Piepenbring has a write-up of Nobel Laureate Anatole…
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Baby Geniuses

  • Adam Keller
  • October 14, 2016
The concepts of genius and IQ have long been instruments of cultural and economic control. For Slate, Dana Goldstein examines how Donald Trump has bought into these ideas: Trump’s adoration…
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A Box Of Chocolates

  • Adam Keller
  • October 7, 2016
I think that every novelist of the kind of novels that I write has in them maybe one really good book… but the trouble with so many novelists is that…
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