Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over

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The Travels of a Master Storyteller

America’s Dead Souls

At Home Among the Birds: An Interview with Jonathan Meiburg

Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction (2019)

Oscar Wilde's play about Russian nihilists (2017)

How Finland rebranded itself as a literary country (2018)

In Praise of the Flâneur (2013)

Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1992)

People-Shaped White Rocks

The Art of the Cover Letter

The Libraries of My Life (2020)

The Conundrum of “Conundrum”

What Writers and Editors Do

The Year of Grinding Teeth

Why Do We Keep Reading the Great Gatsby?

What We Know of Sappho

George Steiner, The Art of Criticism No. 2 (1995)

J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85 (1984)

Jan Morris, The Art of the Essay No. 2 (1997)

Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence

Margaret Atwood, The Art of Fiction No. 121 (1990)

The Unicorn Tapestries

Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction No. 64 (1977)

We Are Built to Forget

A Brief History of Word Games

The Ghosts of Newspaper Row

Russet, the color of peasants, fox fur, and penance

William Gaddis’s Disorderly Inferno

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