“A Singer's Singer”
“Taste is the Great Divider”
“Hell to Sit Next To”
“Life of the Party”
“You're Not a Star Until They Can Spell Your Name in Karachi”
“Aberrant Behavior”
“Surface Tensions ”
“Household Saint”
“Black and White”
“Dog Poetry”
“Country People”
“Posthumous”
“Pure Cain”
“The Story of Porno”
“Tales of Buffalo Billy: Noel Simsolo's "Masters of Cinema: Billy Wilder"”
“In Her Fashion”
“Heroine Chic”
“Discoveries: Trea Martyn”
“Discoveries: Jane Smiley”
“Discoveries: Edna O'Brien”
“Mail Bonding”
“Trois Femmes, Une Cité”
“Designed for Impact”
“Postscript”
“Unfamous”
“Portrait of a Friendship”
“Golden Filth: Ed Sanders's "Fug You"”
“Erratic Mothering”
“Town Pump”
“Cogito Ergo Boom: Susan Sontag's Journals”
“A Revelatory Requiem for a Mentally Ill Friend”
“Crying in Public”
“This American Gothic”
“Conjuring the Artist/Activist Line”
“Hike. Pray. No.”
“A Man Apart”
“Angels of History: A Biography of David Wojnarowicz”
“Master Narrative: Who Did Emily Dickinson Write Her Love Letters To?”
“Lovers in the Lens”
“Here’s to Mrs. Robinson”
“The Big Reservoir”
“A Diary Left Open: On Joy Harjo”
“Thomas Hart Benton and the Contradictions of Populism”
“Unmatched Independent: On Record Label ESP-Disk'”
“Social Work: On Three Half-forgotten Women”
“'We’d Hate To Lose You': On the Biography of David Foster Wallace”
“The Cosmographer of The Self: On Sir Thomas Browne”
“Bananas Royale”
“Beyond the Electric Fence: One Man's Odyssey from North Korea to the West”
“Postmodern Confessional”
“The Third Man: Joseph Anton’s Split Perspective”
“Illuminations: A Biography of Buffy Sainte-Marie”
“Enough and More Than Enough: On Paul Elie’s “Reinventing Bach””
“Speak, Jack: Joyce Johnson’s New Biography of Jack Kerouac”
“Dickens’s Actual Children: On Robert Gottlieb's "Great Expectations"”
“Fashioning Jane: How to Read Paula Byrne’s New Biography”
“Little Big Legend: On Larry McMurtry's Custer”
“Dubiety of the First Person: David Shields's "How Literature Saved My Life"”
“On the Assembly Line: Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Last Holiday””
“A Loud Legacy: On Pat Loud's "Lance Out Loud"”
“Confronting the Accused: On Agata Tuszynska and Vera Gran”
“Getting Out of the Picture: On Being Nick Flynn”
“Oh, To Be Japanese!”
“Disappearing Acts: Nabokov and the Theater of History”
“A Matter of Rhythm: Benoît Peeters’s “Derrida: A Biography””
“The War on Murder: Sharon Tate and the Victims' Rights Movement”
“The Prospero Line: Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son"”
“Race for the Prize: On Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland”
“Going the Distance: Michelle Orange's "This is Running for Your Life"”
“Justice Revealed: Sonia Sotomayor’s Early Years”
“Hero Without a Sequel: Charles Jackson Revisited”
“Fabrics and Trinkets: Elizabeth Winder’s Sylvia Plath”
“Man and Wunderkammern: "The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert Ripley"”
“Jack Kerouac’s Restless Odyssey and His New Life “On the Road””
“Finding Words For What Is Horrible: Aleksandar Hemon's "The Book of My Lives"”
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