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Andrea Scrima

Andrea Scrima is the author of A Lesser Day (second edition 2018). She writes criticism for Music & Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, The Millions, Times Literary Supplement, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and others. As editor-in-chief of the online literary magazine StatORec, she recently edited Writing the Virus, a New York Times Sunday Book Review “New & Noteworthy” title of 2021. Her second novel, Like Lips, Like Skins, is forthcoming.


On the Weaponization of Language in a Traumatized Nation

Andrea Scrima Finds Connections Between American Mythmaking and Political Deceptions
June 18, 2021  By Andrea Scrima
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