The Evan Dara Affinity

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  • The Embrace of Influence

    In the 22 years since Evan Dara published his first novel, he has granted no interviews…

  • One Mutual Sheaf

    “O let me teach you how to knit again/ This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,/…

  • 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…