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This Is a Testament
... epistolary account of the life of the Reverend John Ames, Congregationalist pastor in a small town in Iowa, superior in every way to its fan-favorite predecessor, which I read next. I’ve since decided...
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True Grift
... the level of mere forms, rarely venturing to probe what might be troubling the waters beneath such glistening stillness. Indeed, Cline’s narration might be described as literally superficial—her...
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Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel Erasure; David Treuer on an Indigenous history of the US
.../11/08/john-waters-filmmaker-first-novel> with filmmaker John Waters about his debut novel, Liarmouth: “When I ask Waters, who has a book collection in the five figures, the dull but obligatory...
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Day four of the Penguin Random House antitrust trial; Lynne Tillman on Jane Bowles and other favorite authors
...-evaristo-sarah-waters-ian-rankin>. John Williams has joined the Washington Post as books editor. Williams was...
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A Bloop and a Blast
... my modest offerings at the baseball gods’ altar: a red cap I captioned “Hat,” some sketches of John Kruk and Pete “Inky” Incaviglia that make them look like identical-twin clowns, and, in...
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John Waters on his debut novel; Jacqueline Rose on war
... In the New York Times Magazine, a conversation with John Waters, whose debut novel, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad...
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Doctor Strange Love
... Mueller”). John Waters, whose films she acted in, said of “Ask Dr. Mueller,” “She totally made it up and told people to do things that made people go crazy, stuff that was really bad for you!” Dennis...
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Emily J. Lordi on the Black psychedelic movement; Cookie Mueller’s previously unpublished story “Narcotics”
... we glitzed it up.” The Paris Review has posted a previously unpublished story by Cookie Mueller, the John Waters film star and downtown...
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Tonight: Colson Whitehead in conversation with Kevin Young
... the letter has been signed by more than a hundred authors, including Laura van den Berg, Tracy Chevalier, Jorie Graham, Lauren Groff, Mark Haddon, John Keene, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Katie Kitamura...
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Search and Destroy
... BP by 20 percent; Total by 12. Over a decade ago, the novelist John Lanchester found it “strange and striking that climate-change activists have not committed any acts of terrorism.” He gamely...
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A Ghost Is Born
... a new edition from the Library of America. But let’s linger a while longer in 1975. Pancake had introduced himself to John Casey, who chaired the creative-writing program at the University of...
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Immodest Proposals
... cinema, too: John Waters, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Morrissey, Pedro Almodóvar, Quentin Tarantino, and Bong Joon-ho don’t seem quite possible without him. The studio system was a mixed blessing for...
