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What Memoir Can Do That Poetry Can't

What Memoir Can Do That Poetry Can't

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By Tracy K. Smith | April 16, 2015

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Åsne Seierstad

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Saul Bellow

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 10, 2015

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On Whiteness and The Racial Imaginary

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The Nearest Thing To Life

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James Wood

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