What to Read When You Want to Go to College
College is a rite of passage for many young people, and it’s also a part of the American Dream for many families. Here is a list of books that tackle those fraught four years.
...moreCollege is a rite of passage for many young people, and it’s also a part of the American Dream for many families. Here is a list of books that tackle those fraught four years.
...moreRumpus contributor Daniel Roberts has two pieces on David Foster Wallace in honor of what would have been his 50th birthday. This Berfois essay examines The Marriage Plot‘s Leonard Bankhead character as a representation of DFW. And, at Salon, Roberts asks us to consider Wallace’s journalism. “Whether or not Wallace fully believed in the shtick […]
...moreEugenides aims not just to retell the “marriage plot” novel of a former era, but, of course, to subvert it. And this, of course, he does.
...moreJeffrey Eugenides, who has never written a novel that wasn’t well-received, has a new title called The Marriage Plot coming out in October, eight years since everybody first loved Middlesex. October may seem like forever away, but fortunately The Millions published the first couple lines of the book to tie you over until then. It’s […]
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