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2017

  • Satirizing Modernism

    Emmett Stinson’s new book, Satirizing Modernism: Aesthetic Autonomy, Romanticism, and the Avant-Garde, comes out in June, and…

  • Counterevidence

    Earlier this year, I happened upon the audiobook of William Gaddis’s JR, a 37-hour tour de…

  • Author/Editor

    On copyedits and compromise, through the lens of Evan Dara’s The Easy Chain.

  • Preparing for The Easy Chain

    Without knowing exactly where to start, I’ll begin at the beginning and wend my way through…

  • Against Readability?

    Last week, Ben Roth published an essay on The Millions entitled “Against Readability,” which was provocative…

  • El Cuaderno Perdido: An Interview with José Luis Amores

    An interview with Jose Luis Amores, who translated Evan Dara’s first novel, The Lost Scrapbook.

  • The Easy Chain

    I’m in the midst of a re-read of Dara’s The Easy Chain, which has been slowed…

  • Flee: A Playlist of Sorts

    While I don’t visit Largehearted Boy’s site as often as I did a few years ago, I’m…

  • Flann O’Brien and Secured Reputations

    Last week, Mark O’Connell shared a quote attributed to Anthony Burgess about the Irish shapeshifter, Flann O’Brien, which…

  • El Cuaderno Perdido

    Thanks in large part to the efforts of its tireless publisher, Palido Fuego, links to numerous…