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The Readers’ Reader: On Michael Silverblatt’s “Bookworm”
Chris Via reviews the selection of literary interviews gathered in “Bookworm: Conversations with Michael Silverblatt."...
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Chris Via
Chris Via’s work appears in Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, 3:AM Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Splice, The Arts Fuse, and The Rupture. He recently contributed the afterword to Novel Explosives (2021) by Jim Gauer, and in 2018 won honorable mention for Grove Atlantic’s national book review competition, featured on Lit Hub. Chris also hosts the growing, literature-obsessed YouTube channel Leaf by Leaf. He holds a BA in computer science and an MA in humanities.
Articles
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Jeffers’s debut novel is a sweeping American epic of family secrets and generational legacies....
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S. D. Chrostowska’s stories are like dreams that last several minutes yet leave our minds occupied for days....
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