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. . .I began to see Gabriel García Márquez in a new light, as a…
The Spiral: Avathoir and wallflower Talk About Thomas Pynchon, 2: Slow Learner (Early Stories)
Avathoir: Welcome back to our continuing read through of the works of Thomas Ruggles Pynchon!…
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When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
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wallflower: V. (no relation to the Vendetta or the TV series with all the sexy…
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In Underworld, Don deLillo tried to do what John le Carré did with The Secret…
New Modes for Old Truths: James Ellroy’s America
Mr. Campbell, who cares? Even if this were true, who cares? This country was built…
Justice and Prosperity: The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs
The Hamiltonaissance continues with Elizabeth Cobbs’ The Hamilton Affair, a historical novel that traces the…
Decomposing in Real Time: Waste by Andrew F. Sullivan
There are only victims. (last line of Scott Turow’s Pleading Guilty) The modern industrial age…
Always Business, Always Personal: John Gregory Dunne’s Monster: Living Off the Big Screen
But that is the writer’s life. You write. You finish. You start over again. (Dunne,…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: the authors of FULL METAL JACKET
The writing credit on Full Metal Jacket reads “by Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav…