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Extractor of Secrets, Discloser of Secrets: On the Complex Role of the Biographer

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Debra Dean Considers the Therapeutic Effects of Telling Our Stories

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Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

“His fallback, his signature, is always humor.”

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Very Different Writers, Uncanny Commonalities: On Lee Child and<br> Heidi James

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Biographer Heather Martin Takes the Measure of Two Literary Lives

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The Humble Beginnings of the American Circus

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