The Evan Dara Affinity

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  • Decisions Made Too Fast

    This week, I’ve been consumed by the works of a pair of powerful storytellers, whose devotion…

  • Postscript on Dara and Gaddis

    Last month, I sketched out the case that Manuel Puig may have had more to do…

  • American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000

    After reading the accounts of the attendees of this year’s 4th annual David Foster Wallace Conference,…

  • 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…