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The Millions

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Elena Ferrante and the Picture on the Back Cover

  • Rosamund Lannin
  • October 10, 2016
Essayist Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s obsession with author photos leads to authorial reflections on gender, representation, and what writers owe the public in “Occupy Author Photo: On Elena Ferrante, Privacy, and…
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Fates and Hashtags

  • Tamara Matthews
  • October 4, 2016
What would the main characters from Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies be like on Twitter? At The Millions, Claire Cameron imagines what sort of missives Lotto and Mathilde Satterwhite would tweet out…
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One More Time

  • Adam Keller
  • September 30, 2016
At The Millions, Shivani Radhakrishnan reviews Mauro Javier Cardenas’s novel The Revolutionaries Try Again, which takes a Soviet Montage-esque approach to budding and dissipating revolutionary impulses: You’re never directly informed…
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Navigating French

  • Stephanie Bento
  • September 28, 2016
Over at The Millions, Hannah Gersen interviews Lauren Collins about her memoir, When in French; learning a foreign language; and writing about herself. As Collins recalls: I wanted to describe…
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When 2 Become 1

  • Guia Cortassa
  • September 27, 2016
One day I went to work on my novel and, to my surprise, a part of it had been rewritten. My boyfriend, seeing my unease, told me that he had…
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Coming Home to Proust

  • Adam Keller
  • September 23, 2016
At The Millions, J.P. Smith describes the singular effect that Marcel Proust has had on his growth as a writer: This isn’t a rambling, stream-of-consciousness book of memories lost and found;…
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Structure as Lightning Rod

  • Kirstin Allio
  • September 1, 2016
Writing for The Millions, M.C. Mah turns over all the cards in the deck on structure in storytelling. He gathers words of wisdom—and many metaphors—from luminaries like John McPhee, Borges,…
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From Reading to Reading

  • Guia Cortassa
  • August 30, 2016
Over at The Millions, Alex Lockwood shares what he learned from reading and readings during his first American book tour: I packed The Wave in the Mind into my luggage…
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It Was a Joke

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • August 24, 2016
In an essay on author authenticity for The Millions, Alcy Levy examines Percival Everett’s satirical novel Erasure—about a black author whose own satirical novel is taken seriously—in light of recent literary identity…
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Ragtime and the Mysterious Teenage Highlighter

  • Jake Slovis
  • August 24, 2016
At The Millions, Jacob Lambert shares a letter written to an unknown teenager who annotated and “ruined” his secondhand copy of Ragtime. Lambert expresses bewilderment over the passages that the teenager highlighted,…
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Fappetizers

  • Adam Keller
  • August 19, 2016
When does food porn become a problem? For The Millions, Davey Davis looks at the spread of the pornographic sensibility to Instagram cuisine: The cumshot is replicated in Instagram food porn,…
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What Not to Wear

  • Jake Slovis
  • August 17, 2016
For The Millions, Rosa Lyster analyzes the “dos and don’ts” of writing about clothes, arguing that strong descriptions of clothing can help enliven a narrative and provide clues about a character’s…
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