Franzen, Suicide and the Real
I was pretty clear last fall that I thought the whole kertuffle over Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was, in essence, a big circle jerk…
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Movies: What do we want?
So, Oscar weekend has come and gone and to no one’s surprise, the venerable academy crowned The King’s Speech . I know people…
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Caribou Island
One of the things that fascinated me when I was in graduate school was the way that landscape functioned in fiction, and in…
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At the Rumpus: The Last Book I Loved
Over at The Rumpus.net, I take on the Last Book I Loved (which is a book I “love” about once every year or two), The…
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Trip to Chicago: Vivian Maier Exhibit
Last week I went to Chicago, where I grew up, to visit my grandmother for her 100th birthday. I had some free time…
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