Notable Online: 10/18–10/24
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Angela Chen
Memoir Monday Online: Dixon, Kasbeer, Chen, Faliveno
Watch September’s online Memoir Monday reading!
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Notable Online: 9/20–9/26
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Language Is All Convention: Talking with Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman discusses her new novel The Idiot, what it means to be a writer, and the artifice of language.
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Homer understood in the 8th century BCE what modernity has yet to accept—love can be an addiction, and when it is, we need substantial outside help. Angela Chen writes for Aeon on romantic love as addiction, and the taboos around “curing” people of romantic love.
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The Rumpus Interview with Alice Dreger
Alice Dreger discusses her latest book, Galileo’s Middle Finger, the relationship between science and social justice, and the state of modern academia.
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