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An Interview with Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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Eric Farwell
I do think persona is helpful in however heavy or light the disguise, if only to announce to the reader that if my persona says or does something they don’t find agreeable, it’s just a character, not the person.
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Lessons for a Young Critic: Immersing Yourself in the Generosity of Henry James toward Balzac

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Richard Goodman
The studied and careful perfection of James’s novels gives way to a warm and casual humanity in his criticism that, while not forsaking a powerful intellect, is delightfully openhearted.
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An Interview with Charles Baxter

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Jacqueline Kolosov
We need a new sociology of literary studies, and we need it right now.
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Not at Home: Elizabeth Bishop’s Moose as Mother

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John Poch
Bishop eschewed the confessional mode, believing this style all too personal, though in letters to him and to others she admitted Robert Lowell was the best at this kind of poem.
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Pop Muses: Welcoming Fanfiction into the Creative Writing Workshop

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Cara Diaconoff
...it turns out that the best actual fanfiction can be as interrogative, deconstructive, and productively recombining as the most insightful literary criticism.
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Writerly Fingerprints: Syntax as Style

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Colleen M. Olle
By virtue of the relative clarity with which they develop ideas and map out logical relationships in a pleasing ebb-and-flow movement, cumulative sentences abound in fiction.
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Sounds Like Writing

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Benjamin Percy
Chabon writes big. His sentences lavishly uncoil. His hulking plots defy summary. When I read one of his novels, I feel a little like I do when I turn a corner at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
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