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What to Leave In, What to Leave Out: My Conversations with David Foster Wallace

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Adrienne Miller on Literary Life in the 1990s

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A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

Dina Nayeri on Javad Djavaher's My Part of Her

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The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

Zan Romanoff on Adrienne Miller's In the Land of Men

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Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won't End

John Freeman with the Author of Unfinished Business

By John Freeman | February 10, 2020

The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

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