
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen



On the American country music legend
April 27th, 2013
Ray Bradbury up close and personal.
June 14th, 2012

"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."
February 7th, 2013

on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction.
February 11th, 2012
For Hannah, talking is a way of coming to terms with, and owning, her appetites.
April 28th, 2012
On Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard
May 24th, 2013
Many have been sleeping in money. The money is congregating in the street.
October 21st, 2011

On Mailer, Eggers, and the protagonists that walk off the page.
December 7th, 2012



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