The Believer:Hotel Theory, Koestenbaum’s latest offering, is the grand summation of his lingering thought. Less hard theory than ...

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Dan Green discusses an interesting book.Shining at the Bottom of the Sea is, it seems to me, an experimental novel in the purest sense of the term. It bypasses alm...

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Like Maud Newton, we've been dipping into and thoroughly enjoying the Library of America's new collection of Edmund Wilson's brillia...

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In its golden age, Hollywood excelled at manufacturing stars, large and small. This book explains how the machine worked.

"A novel?  No.  I don't have the endurance any more.  To write a novel you have to be like Atlas, holding up a ...

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The excellent literary journal SUBTROPICS has just unveiled its newly revamped website.  Do go and visit the new site, which i...

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New Orleans News Eye (NONE) reporter Natalie Severin has a nose for news, although her beat takes her into unusual places. ...

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Right when I've burrowed in to two works of criticism that I just know are going to be slow reads and a lengthy novel, what arrives...

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