Dan Sinykin

Articles

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  The Fine Art of Bad Writing

  Dan Sinykin interviews Tom Comitta about their latest project, “People’s Choice Literature: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels.”

  Dan SinykinJun 5

  • Literary Criticism

  • Fiction

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  Fuck the Poetry Police: On the Index of Major Literary Prizes in the United States

  Dan Sinykin breaks down the Post45 Data Collective set on literary awards compiled by Stephanie Young and Juliana Spahr.

  Dan SinykinJan 9, 2023

  • Literary Criticism

  • Literary Fiction

  • Poetry

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  The Sublime Danielle Steel: For the Love of Supermarket Schlock

  Dan Sinykin reconsiders the career of Danielle Steel.

  Dan SinykinAug 3, 2022

  • Fiction

  • LARB Lit

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  The Naïf Goes to the Everything Store: On Mark McGurl’s “Everything and Less”

  Dan Sinykin finds cautious hope in “Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon” by Mark McGurl.

  Dan SinykinOct 20, 2021

  • Literary Criticism

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  Rebel Yale: Reading and Feeling “Hillbilly Elegy”

  An article from 2018 illustrates how his refusal to speak directly about “issues” made J. D. Vance, now Donald Trump’s running mate, the new pundit for white people.

  Dan Sinykin, Florence Dore, J. D. ConnorJan 10, 2018

  • Education

  • Memoir & Essay

  • Politics

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  Charles Manson and the Apocalypse to Come

  Dan Sinykin reimagines Charles Manson as a harbinger of the modern apocalyptic imaginary.

  Dan SinykinNov 24, 2017
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  Trump and the End Times

  All these years, Jack Van Impe has been preaching a certain truth. It took Trump to make it revelation

  Dan SinykinMay 9, 2016

  • Politics