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Jonathan Russell Clark

Jonathan Russell Clark is a staff writer for Literary Hub. His work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Tin House, The Georgia Review, The Millions, The Rumpus and elsewhere. He can be heard from @jrc2666


The Best Books About Books: Part 3

From the Critical to the Personal, Reflections on Reading
May 10, 2017  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Entering Scoundrel Time: A New Literary Site Takes on Trump

"Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did."
February 1, 2017  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn’t Need Them

On Misguided Spoiler Panic and Why We Should All Calm Down
September 6, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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The Best Books About Books: Part 2

On Works of Criticism by Cynthia Ozick, C.D. Wright, Teju Cole, and More
July 21, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Borges is Still Dead. (Or Is He? And Which Borges?)

On the 30th Anniversary of the Death of Jorge Luis Borges
June 14, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Will Anyone Read Chuck Klosterman
in 100 Years?

Even When Pop Culture Fades, Its Best Critics Don't
June 10, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Actually, Criticism Is Literature

Writing About the Art of Writing is an Art Unto Itself
June 2, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Skateboarding in Fiction: A Brief History of Failure

On Accuracy and Authenticity in Art
March 24, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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The Women of the World Poetry Slam Comes to Brooklyn

On Creating a Safe Space for All Voices to Be Heard
March 9, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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102 Indispensible Works of Literary Criticism

A Highly Subjective and Idiosyncratic List Created Upon Moving House
March 4, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Where is Wisława Szymborska’s Teeming Crowd?

Remembering the Great Poet 20 Years After Her Nobel Prize
January 8, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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A Reader’s Manifesto for 2016

Literary Resolutions from a Straight, White Male
January 4, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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The Literary Star Wars, a History

George Lucas and His Heroes, From Flash Gordon to Francis Ford Coppola
December 18, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Writers at Work: The Year in Collected Essays

On 12 Books (and 4,554 Pages) by Journalists, Critics, Columnists, and Contributors
December 14, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell

One Novel Out of Many, Filled With Eternally Recurring Characters
November 16, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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This Year’s Charming National Book Award Underdog: Karen E. Bender

On Money, Craft, and Characters Who Can’t Stop Stealing
November 12, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Roxane Gay Wins the PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award

"For Demonstrating exceptional courage in the defense of free expression.”
November 4, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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The Bearable Lightness of Joe Meno

Sentimental, Almost Cloying, Occasionally Saccharine, Often Wonderful
October 22, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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Why Salman Rushdie Should Win the Nobel Prize in Literature

A Last-Minute Plea on Behalf of Secular Miracles
October 7, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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The Time I Got Really Stoned and Interviewed Jesse Eisenberg

Sunday Night, You're Totally Baked, and a Movie Star Calls
September 29, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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