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Loren Glass is the Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and author of Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980 and Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde.
Here, host Colin Marshall speaks with Glass about the halcyon days of publishing, dirty words, Grove Press, and his latest book Counterculture Colophon.
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Colin Marshall is a Seoul-based essayist on cities, language, and culture. He is the author of the books 한국 요약 금지 (“No Summarizing Korea,” 2024) and Korean Newtro: Where Youth Meets Tradition (2025).
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