Richard Kreitner

Richard Kreitner is the author of Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America’s Imperfect Union and Booked: A Traveler’s Guide to Literary Locations Around the World. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Nation, Slate, Raritan, The Baffler, Jewish Currents, and other publications. He lives in Beacon, New York.

Can the Fragile American Union Survive This Election?

Richard Kreitner on the Future of Political Fragmentation

August 19, 2020 By Richard Kreitner

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Trying to Get Beyond the Cliches of Literary Brooklyn

Richard Kreitner Visits the Stomping Grounds of Whitman, Moore, and Many Others

June 7, 2019 By Richard Kreitner

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