Nothing New Under the Sun: The Russian Formalists’ Guide to Prose Craft
With a fixation on abstract novelty, our students call to us from a crowded space of so many like tales and so much pressure to spit out some shiny new thing.
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Ben Nadler
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Ben Nadler is a writer working between New York City and the Philadelphia area, where he teaches at Widener University. He is the author of The Sea Beach Line: A Novel and Punk in NYC's Lower East Side, 1981–1991. His next novel is forthcoming this year from American Buffalo Books. He can be found at bennadler.com/.
A General Truth Through a Particular Lie: An Interview with the Creators of the Podcast Penknife
I personally find this myth of authenticity extremely insidious and damaging, because it often leads to purity tests and the constant need to prove one’s cred . . . rather than leading to constructive thought and action—