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Andrea Scrima

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Andrea Scrima is the author of the novel “A Lesser Day” (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2010), literary critic for The Brooklyn Rail and The Rumpus, and co-editor of Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics. She lives in Berlin.
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The Walk by Robert Walser

  • Andrea Scrima
  • July 23, 2012
Robert Walser’s legendary novella Der Spaziergang (The Walk), the first work of his to appear in English and the only one to be translated during his lifetime, is now available…
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Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods

  • Andrea Scrima
  • February 16, 2012
Today in book review, Andrea Scrima reviews Helen DeWitt’s amazing new satirical novel, Lightning Rods. Read the review.
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A Preposterous Proposal, But No, Not Quite

  • Andrea Scrima
  • February 16, 2012
Helen DeWitt’s satirical novel Lightning Rods turns the quotidian American workplace into a cloaked prostitution ring and makes us wonder if it isn’t already one.
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Tales of Woe

  • Andrea Scrima
  • November 16, 2010
Tales of Woe descends from one circle of hell to the next, an act of sabotage against the Hollywood narrative of sin, suffering, and redemption.
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Something That Can Never Be Said with Words

  • Andrea Scrima
  • September 20, 2010
The darkness in Jon Fosse’s work is that of human consciousness confronted with mortality. Yet his characters seem to radiate with a luminous urgency.
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Celebration and Bitterness, Comfort and Dread

  • Andrea Scrima
  • September 16, 2010
In Please Come Back to Me, Jessica Treadway examines the ambiguities of the human heart, sometimes answering life’s dilemma’s too elegantly.
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