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laura miller

21 posts
  • Notable New York

Notable NYC: 4/7–4/13

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 7, 2018
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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Where Writers Rule

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • July 11, 2016
At Slate, Laura Miller discusses the TV showrunner as novelist, focusing specifically on Noah Hawley. Hawley, showrunner for the FX show Fargo, has also published multiple novels, including Before the…
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The Dreamer Gazing

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • May 9, 2016
Using examples like John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim Progress and Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Laura Miller analyzes our modern concept of what an “allegory” is, in comparison to how the…
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Rooted Elsewhere

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • May 3, 2016
Most of the rest of the stories in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked, with major characters in one story later turning up as minor characters in another. This loose,…
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No New Friends

  • Roxie Pell
  • April 12, 2016
A connection so fundamentally optional doesn’t provide the same ambivalence and tension you get with alcoholic parents, narcissistic spouses, or resentful bosses. If your friend abuses you or your trust,…
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Fan Fiction Gone Wild

  • Katie O'Brien
  • February 19, 2016
Slate’s Laura Miller details the bizarre tale of the copyright lawsuit between two No. 1 New York Times best-selling fantasy authors, showing the potential messiness of fan fiction going mainstream:…
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Exhausted, Frustrated, Probably Depressed

  • Kyle Williams
  • January 18, 2016
The housewife is to the novelist what the still life is to the painter. For the Slate Book Review, Laura Miller writes a piece exploring the history and resurgence of a…
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Writing on Old Age

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • January 11, 2016
For Slate, Laura Miller reviews the way old age is explored and rendered through literature, especially by those of old age themselves: The essays in Alive, Alive Oh! resolve in a…
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The Complexities of Litchat

  • Lyz Lenz
  • September 10, 2015
Laura Miller writes in the New Yorker about litchat and legacy: In fact, litchat has assumed an ever-greater role in criticism because so much of what once happened privately and…
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Word of the Day: Miasma

  • Sara Menuck
  • May 13, 2015
(n.); noxious exhalations from putrid organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere; a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere “If the Internet is a bridge to the…
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If It Quacks like a Dragon

  • Claire Burgess
  • March 6, 2015
Kazuo Ishiguro insists his new novel, The Buried Giant, is not a fantasy novel. Laura Miller at Salon agrees. Ursula K. Le Guin does not (and is a little insulted).…
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Between the Lines

  • Roxie Pell
  • December 16, 2014
While some bibliophiles hold books as sacred artworks to be carefully preserved, others can’t read without a little back-and-forth. Laura Miller makes a case for defacing pages: Marginalia is a…
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