Literary resolutions for 2013
For the last few years, I’ve been making literary new year’s resolutions — and following up the following year to...
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“Do you secretly hope th...
I’m spending a lot of time these days looking at old editions of The New Yorker, where Shirley Jackson published a number of...
read moreHarry Potter and the Literary ...
Today at TNR.com, I wrote about J.K. Rowling’s new novel for adults. The Casual Vacancy certainly qualifies as R-rated, if not...
read more“Melancholy Notes on the...
While looking up a piece Stanley Edgar Hyman wrote for the magazine Tomorrow in 1947, I stumbled upon this article. With a title...
read moreShirley Jackson road trip, day...
Through a course of somewhat random events, I found myself in upstate New York this week with a few days to kill. So I spent Wednesday...
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