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Kevin Evers

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Kevin Evers writes essays, reviews, fiction and nonfiction. His work has previously appeared at The Millions. He lives in Somerville, MA.
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The Blurb #20: Joy Is a Job

  • Kevin Evers
  • November 18, 2010
I, too, want to feel a buzz, but I have no illusions. It takes effort. Reading good books requires discipline.
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Listen to This

  • Kevin Evers
  • October 7, 2010
Whether writing about Mozart or Björk, punk rock or opera, Alex Ross urges readers to search for the moments when the familiar becomes strange.
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Renewed, Transfigured

  • Kevin Evers
  • August 26, 2010
Like boxes in storage, Andrea Scrima’s memories are itinerant. Wherever she resides, nothing seems to be in the right place.
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The Work of the Day, Which is Slaughtering

  • Kevin Evers
  • July 12, 2010
In Joshua Cohen’s hyperreal world of kitsch, the Sabbath becomes law, Auschwitz becomes Whateverwitz, and the world’s last Jew is on the run.
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From Old Notebooks

  • Kevin Evers
  • May 4, 2010
“As the writer wrestles with his book and his family, we reexamine our thoughts about the writer. It’s a performance in which writer and reader have equal billing.”
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Faith in Withheld Meanings

  • Kevin Evers
  • April 8, 2010
What do nuclear waste, suicide, and Las Vegas have in common? John D’Agata searches for meaning in the heart of Yucca Mountain
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