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Nathan Blum

Nathan Blum is a writer from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. His work appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Chicago Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is currently an MFA Candidate in Fiction at Vanderbilt University, where he teaches creative writing and serves as an advisory editor at Nashville Review.

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Nathan Blum

Jun 25, 2025

On Exteriority: David Szalay’s “Flesh”

After a few more one-liners, it becomes clear István is living in pandemic-era England (he vapes now, etc.) and trying to log on to a Zoom meeting with his therapist
Criticism

Nathan Blum

Nov 5, 2024

Danger Down Under: Fiona McFarlane’s Highway Thirteen

According to a website that calculates such things, the furthest city on the globe from my hometown in New York is Perth. Perth—I’ve heard of Perth.

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