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Beware of Book Blurbs - The Millions

March 4, 2023

Blurbs had been used in publishing long before they had a name. One of the earliest examples of a book blurb in the United States was penned by none...

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The Paris Review - A Place for Fire - The Paris Review

January 17, 2023

“I am sometimes amazed by the depths of my own self-pity..”

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Source: theparisreview.org

Poems in Practice and in Theory

August 5, 2022

Elisa Gabbert talks about her poetry criticism and her own poems, and Ian Johnson discusses Wang Xiaobo’s novel “Golden Age.”

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The Paris Review - Why Write? - The Paris Review

July 6, 2022

“I’ve been collecting these theories of why writers write because so many writers have written about it.”

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