Eric Been

Eric Been is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, TheAtlantic.com, and several other publications.

What Would DFW Do: Maria Bustillos, Eric Been, and Mike Goetzman on “Both Flesh and Not” and All Things Foster Wallace

1. MARIA BUSTILLOS: I ONLY MET HIM a couple of times, and only for a few minutes each time, but a very striking feature of being in David Foster Wallace's orbit was his ability to focus on you absolutely. I've heard ...

MARIA BUSTILLOS, MICHAEL GOETZMAN, ERIC BEEN

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This American Gothic

MARK DERY’S WORK IS BAT-SHIT CRAZY — in the best possible way. Though a brief scan of his output might lead one to mistake the cultural critic for a mere artifact of the cyberculture-chattering class — those techno-savvy theorists ...

ERIC BEEN

The American Aftershock: An Interview with Thomas Frank

The other thing to point out is that the Tea Party is not a working-class movement....

ERIC BEEN

Everywhere and Nowhere

ERIC BEEN

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CULTURAL STUDIES