J. Robert Lennon has a great piece on why young writers should not immerse themselves in contemporary literary fiction. He wrote it in response to a piece by Dan Chaon....
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Read MoreI suppose you could say Helen Dewitt’s Lightning Rods is a dirty book. Deliciously, scrupulously dirty. But I wouldn’t say that. True, it has the tang of illicit...
Read MoreStraight No Chaser: Helen Dewitt The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt, is an unusual and eccentric novel that breaks most of the rules of conventional literary fiction. It...
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THE MAN WHO CAN'T DIE
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GAHA: BABES OF THE ABYSS
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SPECIMEN TANK
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