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Kerri Arsenault

Kerri Arsenault
Kerri Arsenault is a literary critic, co-director of The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University; Democracy Fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History; fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia; contributing editor at Orion magazine; and author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. Her writing has been published in the Boston Globe, The Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, Freeman’s, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.


Writing in the Edgelands: A Conversation Between Kerri Arsenault and
Elizabeth Rush

“The intricate systems of reciprocity are gone.”
September 8, 2020  By Kerri Arsenault
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Kerri Arsenault on Life and Death in a Maine Mill Town

What We'll Never Know About Capitalism's Toxic Aftermath
September 1, 2020  By Kerri Arsenault
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How Will Restaurants Reinvent Themselves Post-Lockdown?

A Conversation with Critic and Restaurant Historian William Sitwell
May 11, 2020  By Kerri Arsenault
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New Growth: Life in a
Pandemic Spring

Kerri Arsenault With the View From the Orchard
April 15, 2020  By Kerri Arsenault
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Yiyun Li and Aleshea Harris are among this year’s Windham-Campbell Prize winners.

March 19, 2020  By Kerri Arsenault
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No Such Thing As a Free Lunch: On Food Insecurity in Small-town Maine

“Hunger is a stress we can’t measure.”
July 8, 2019  By Kerri Arsenault
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Remembering Edmund Morris, a great American biographer.

May 29, 2019  By Kerri Arsenault
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The New Center for Fiction Is Opening in Brooklyn

A One-Stop Spot for All Your Literary Needs
February 15, 2019  By Kerri Arsenault
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How My Father’s Strike Nearly Broke Our Town in Two

Kerri Arsenault on an Early Lesson in Labor and Loyalty
May 10, 2018  By Kerri Arsenault
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Wishing I Were John McPhee

How to Write Narrative Nonfiction About a Master of Narrative Nonfiction
November 15, 2017  By Kerri Arsenault
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New Yorker Cartoonist Barry Blitt: How Far is Too Far in the World of Political Satire

The Author of Blitt, in Conversation with Kerri Arsenault
October 24, 2017  By Kerri Arsenault
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At Oslo’s House of Literature, a Free Space for Ideas (and Writers)

How Can We Make This Kind of Thing Happen in America?
October 20, 2017  By Kerri Arsenault
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Interview with a Gatekeeper: Colin Dickerman Isn’t As Shy As He Thinks

Kerri Arsenault Talks to FSG’s Newest Vice President
September 28, 2017  By Kerri Arsenault
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Interview with a Gatekeeper: Jacques Testard

The Founder of Fitzcarraldo Editions on the Secret to
Dragging a Steamboat Over a Mountain
April 13, 2017  By Kerri Arsenault
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Growing Up in Maine’s “Cancer Valley”

Kerri Arsenault Living in the Shadow of a Smoke-Spouting Paper Mill
April 12, 2017  By Kerri Arsenault
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30 Books in 30 Days: The Return

Kerri Arsenault on Hisham Matar's Political Memoir
February 14, 2017  By Kerri Arsenault
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Interview with a Gatekeeper: Archipelago’s Jill Schoolman

A Great Small-Press Champion of Translation
January 17, 2017  By Kerri Arsenault
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Interview With a Gatekeeper: OR Books’ Colin Robinson

A Progressive Publisher Seeking an Alternative Way of Doing Business
November 30, 2016  By Kerri Arsenault
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Interview with a Gatekeeper: Wave Books’ Matthew Zapruder

On Music, Translation, and How he Came to Understanding Poetry
November 10, 2016  By Kerri Arsenault
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Interview With a Gatekeeper: Algonquin’s Elisabeth Scharlatt

On Predicting Bestsellers, Inclusivity, and Hefty Advances
October 13, 2016  By Kerri Arsenault
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