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Straight Outta Stockton
... stories, read together, feel like an homage to one of the largest diasporic Cambodian communities. Like James Joyce’s Dubliners, So’s collection is a short-story cycle about an ethnic community...
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Tonight: Kwame Anthony Appiah talks with author Sarah Schulman
... James Joyce’s story “The Dead” is set. The house, which once belonged to Joyce’s aunts, was used in John Huston’s 1987 film adaptation of the story. Government protection will prevent it from being...
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What forms of art, activism, and literature can speak authentically today?
... versa?), an addition to a list that for me includes, inevitably, James, Conrad, and Woolf, but also, at different points, Gordimer, Spark, Coetzee, Tyler, Pynchon, Adler, Murdoch, DeLillo, Penelope...
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Danielle Belton named new editor of HuffPost; the latest round of Substack discourse
... Republican talking points.” LitHub has announced a new five-part podcast, Finnegan and Friends, a consideration of the James...
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A Ghost Is Born
... John Casey, in whom he now sought a surrogate father. Pancake started graduate school at UVA in the fall of 1976, where he also worked with James Alan McPherson and Peter Taylor. He had a stint as...
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The Varieties of Musical Experience
... subtexts in the work of Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf. This history of listening becomes a history of consciousness--and ultimately collides with a...
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Comedy of Heirs
... damn way he wants. Laurence Sterne is a funny guy and there is a devastating presentness to this work. The list of Shandean admirers includes Karl Marx, Thomas Jefferson, James Joyce, Goethe...
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The Rest Is Silence
... sheaf of loose pages into a manuscript). Fénéon would go on to publish early work by Proust, Alfred Jarry, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Léon Blum, as well as the first French translation of James Joyce...
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Stockholm, Are You Listening?
... their sins of omission. Writers the Academy have passed over include Leo Tolstoy, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Henrik Ibsen, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Graham Greene, Vladimir...
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Electric Irish DMT Test
... on a boat named Ulysses, which is leaving a wake--get it?) is vexed because these “twats” haven’t read James Joyce, or so he assumes. Finnegan’s mist of genius eventually dissipates, his loathing...
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Very Fine House
... preferred to term them) suggested amalgams of almanacs, the backs of cereal boxes, and pages from Life magazine, by way of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, James Joyce, the chronicles of Oz, and the...
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Dorothea Lasky reads new work; Edwin Frank reflects on the NYRB Classics series
...-nine point nine percent of the time. This, however, was probably the one time I decided not to listen!” James Joyce fans are concerned about the recent sale of the Dublin townhouse that served as...
