Remembering literary critic Helen Vendler; student journalists covering protests at Columbia
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Student journalists at Columbia University have extensive ongoing coverage of the Gaza solidarity encampment /www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/24/gaza-solidarity-encampment-reaches-seventh-day/> ..read more
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Writers withdraw from the PEN Awards and World Voices festival; Anne Carson on her new book
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LitHub reports /lithub.com/the-pen-awards-are-on-the-brink-of-collapse/> on the PEN Awards and World Voices festival, which “are on the brink of collapse” over the organization’s response to Gaza. So ..read more
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Writers discuss abortion at Brooklyn Public Library event; leaked New York Times memo on Gaza coverage
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This Thursday at the Brooklyn Public Library, contributors to Choice Words, a collection of literature on abortion, will discuss /www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/writers-abortion-bpl> their work with ..read more
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Vinson Cunningham’s novel of the Obama campaign
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by Christian Lorentzen
2w ago
THE NOSTALGIA AMONG LIBERALS for the Obama presidency has lately crested such that it’s a surprise that proposals to overturn the 22nd Amendment haven’t gained traction, even in the fantasy realm of ..read more
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E. T. A. Hoffmann’s obsessive revolt against reason
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by Becca Rothfeld
2w ago
THE DILIGENT Prussian bureaucrat E. T. A. Hoffmann had a mischievous double. By day, he worked as a jurist in the courts of present-day Poland and Germany; by night, he wrote impassioned music criticism ..read more
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Vladimir Sorokin's high-risk fiction
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by Joy Williams
2w ago
VLADIMIR SOROKIN is genius, pure and simple. Or Daedalian. Slowly, slowly Sorokin has been introduced to us. At first he was suspected to be too “esoteric” for American tastes. Jamey Gambrell, who ..read more
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Marilynne Robinson goes back to the beginning
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by Michael Robbins
2w ago
“IN THE BEGINNING God created the heaven and the earth.” You have to admit it’s a hell of an opening line. “When I think there was a day when a human first wrote those words,” Marilynne Robinson says ..read more
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Justin Taylor’s novel takes on the celebrity memoir
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by Angelo Hernandez-Sias
2w ago
MEET THE CAST: David Crader, a washed-up child actor, author of the celebrity memoir that constitutes the bulk of Justin Taylor’s second novel, Reboot; Amber, David’s long-suffering second ex-wife ..read more
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The spring issue of Bookforum is online now!
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by The Editors
2w ago
The Spring 2024 issue /www.bookforum.com/print/3004> of Bookforum is online now! In this edition: Christine Smallwood on Constance Debré’s novels of transformation; Joy Williams on Vladimir Sorokin’s ..read more
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The life of Warhol Superstar Candy Darling
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by Melissa Anderson
2w ago
TO TRAVEL FROM Massapequa Park, a small town on Long Island, to Penn Station on the LIRR takes about an hour. It was a commute that Candy Darling made countless times between 1962, the year she turned ..read more
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