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Liquid Repetition: Drew Johnson on the Experience of Reading Marguerite Young’s <em>Miss Macintosh, My Darling</em>

Liquid Repetition: Drew Johnson on the Experience of Reading Marguerite Young’s Miss Macintosh, My Darling

"The book was an artifact upon arrival, a tricky thing for the new of avant-garde to be."

By Drew Johnson | November 7, 2023

Everything Dies Baby, That’s a Fact: On the Elusive Train Dreams of Claire Denis and Mike Brodie

Everything Dies Baby, That’s a Fact: On the Elusive Train Dreams of Claire Denis and Mike Brodie

“Most memories die and most objects are lost, many by design.”

By Drew Johnson | September 30, 2022

How to Fit Balzac’s Magnificent Universe Onto the Big Screen?

How to Fit Balzac’s Magnificent Universe Onto the Big Screen?

Drew Johnson on Lost Illusions (1843) and Lost Illusions (2021)

By Drew Johnson | June 13, 2022

This Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac

This Wild and Crazy Summer, Give in to the Chaos of Balzac

Drew Johnson in Praise of a “Disorderly, Conflicted, Brilliant Clod”

By Drew Johnson | April 20, 2021

Reality is Not Conventional: An Interview with Deborah Eisenberg

Reality is Not Conventional: An Interview with Deborah Eisenberg

"I Never Both Think and Write—I’m Like the Gerald Ford of Fiction Writers"

By Drew Johnson | September 25, 2018

Reading Henry Dumas After Trayvon Martin

Reading Henry Dumas After Trayvon Martin

On the Genius of a Black Writer Killed by NYC Police in 1968

By Drew Johnson | November 4, 2015

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