James Santel's work has appeared in The American Scholar, The Believer, and the Paris Review Daily. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Weight of History: Colum McCann’s “TransAtlantic”
HOW TO EXPRESS an ancient truth in a new way? This is one of the more fundamental questions facing the author; ...
Funambulism: An Interview with Colum McCann
Colum McCann is appearing at a LiveTalksLA event at William Turner Gallery, Bergamot Station, June 18 at 8pm.) COLUM MCCANN'S CAREER ...
The Golden Age: On Chabon’s “Telegraph Avenue”
AMERICAN LITERATURE IS a literature of nostalgia, preoccupied, at least implicitly, with evaporated dreams and vanished Arcadias. It’s a fertile ...
You’re Not Alone
Franzen can’t help but give voice to his despair, but neither does he give it the last word, choosing to place his faith in the ruggedness of comedy....
