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Alex Norcia
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The Woman Who Did Not Burn Down New York
For Vice, Catherine Lacey sits down with Renata Adler to discuss Adler’s new nonfiction collection, After the Tall Timber.
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O Adjunct! My Adjunct!
In the New Yorker, Carmen Maria Machado writes about the poor adjunct situation throughout American universities.
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Fanfiction in the Classroom
At The Millions, Elizabeth Minkel shares her take on fanfiction and its place within the classroom.
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The Year the Future Began
Reviewing W. Joseph Campbell’s 1995: The Year the Future Began, Louis Menand explores, among other things, the different conceptions and strategies for recording history.
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The Art of Interruptions
For The Millions, Steve Himmer writes about “the narrative possibilities of networked life.”
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Wolf Hall Onstage
For the New York Times, Alexis Soloski profiles Ben Miles, who plays Thomas Cromwell in the production of “Wolf Hall, Parts One and Two,” the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s prizewinning novels.
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A Single Sentence
For Tin House’s blog, Jacob Rubin deconstructs a single sentence from Charles D’Ambrosio’s Loitering.
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The Middle of Things
Amending Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, Andrew Solomon offered advice to young writers at this year’s Whiting Writers’ Awards. An adaptation of the speech appears in the New Yorker.
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The Second Saga
The New York Times Magazine has the second part of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s slow American road trip.
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Writing Dies Again
For the LA Times, David L. Ulin responds to Tom McCarthy’s Guardian article on “the death of writing.”
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Monkeying Through Literature
For The Millions, Daniel O’Malley examines the appearance of monkeys in literature, dividing them into two categories: “the first involves stories that feature monkeys as prominent characters or focal points”; and the second, the one he is “most interested in,” concern…