Ali Smith
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An Elaborately Constructed Artifice: Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall
Slipstream may as well be what we call our bewilderment.
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Misery Loves Company: A Conversation with Sarah J. Sloat
Sarah J. Sloat discusses her new collection of erasure poetry, HOTEL ALMIGHTY.
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Heartbreak and Hair Dye: Talking with Amy Feltman
Amy Feltman discusses her debut novel, WILLA & HESPER.
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We Wish You A Literary Christmas
From Dickens to Nabokov to Ali Smith, Kate Webb traces the history of authors pondering Christmas, and the 21st century revival of the Christmas story: Even in our prickly individualism, hemmed in by consumer goods, there are moments when we…
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How to Fail at Writing about Movies
If I have any advice, now, for writing about other media, it’s this: Go ahead and try.
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How to Be Both by Ali Smith
Jonathan Russell Clark reviews How to Be Both by Ali Smith today in Rumpus Books.
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“Artful,” by Ali Smith
In one of the more memorable passages of Ali Smith’s Artful, the narrator notes how “surprisingly lightly” we treat books “in contemporary culture. We’d never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe…