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Jonathan Russell Clark

Jonathan Russell Clark
Jonathan Russell Clark is the author of Skateboard and An Oasis of Horror in a Desert of Boredom. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, and Esquire. He's also a columnist for Tasteful Rude.


102 Indispensible Works of Literary Criticism

A Highly Subjective and Idiosyncratic List Created Upon Moving House
March 4, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
10

Where is Wisława Szymborska’s Teeming Crowd?

Remembering the Great Poet 20 Years After Her Nobel Prize
January 8, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
2

A Reader’s Manifesto for 2016

Literary Resolutions from a Straight, White Male
January 4, 2016  By Jonathan Russell Clark
21

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
2

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
2

The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell

One Novel Out of Many, Filled With Eternally Recurring Characters
November 16, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
6

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
3

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
5

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
5

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
21

In Praise of the New Modernists

Alexandra Kleeman, George Saunders... Experimental and Deeply Felt
August 26, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
4

Reclaiming David Foster Wallace from the Lit-Bros

Has Anyone Actually Read Infinite Jest?
August 20, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
38

Happy Birthday, Gary Larson: A Far Side Appreciation

Weiner Dogs, Smoking Dinosaurs, and Other Deep Truths
August 14, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
3

In Praise of the Unlinked Story Collection

Two New Collections Create Vast Moral Worlds
July 23, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
3

The Best Books About Books

Reading About Reading is Sometimes Better Than Reading
June 22, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
20

On the Fine Art of the Footnote

From Nabokov to Danielewski, Beyond the Experimental
June 3, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
11

The Eternal Mystery of the Reclusive Writer

From Mitchell to Pynchon to Ferrante, Why We Love the Hermits
May 28, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
12

Did Mark Z. Danielewski Just Reinvent the Novel?

The Author of 'The Familiar', on his 21,000-Page Book
May 13, 2015  By Jonathan Russell Clark
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