A new literary memoir is proof that sometimes, you really can love George Eliot too much.
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Jim Lehrer’s No Good, Very Bad JFK Assassination Novel
All you really need to know about Top Down is that it reads like a YA novel for old people.
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Korean Lit Comes to America
The country frets that it trails China and Japan, which have won literary Nobels.
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Dave Eggers Is Worried about America
The famously hopeful novelist’s move to dystopian fiction in The Circle.
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Don’t Kill Your Darlings!
The fact that you love them doesn’t mean they’re worthless. Maybe you’re right!
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Writing the Best Story that She Can
The Prospect talks with Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award winner and author of the recently published memoir, Men We Reaped.
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On Seamus Heaney, Who Made Me Love Poetry
The Irish poet and Nobel laureate is dead at the age of 74.