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James Santel

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.

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; those who succeed in answering it are said to possess “vision.” For almost two decades, Colum McCann has labored at ...

JAMES SANTEL

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 of nearly 2 decades has demonstrated a fascination — an obsession, almost — with gaps: between continents, between eras, between ...

JAMES SANTEL

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 absorption, each generation of authors locating new sources of longing and disillusionment to call its own. Fenimore Cooper had his ...

JAMES SANTEL

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You’re Not Alone

JAMES SANTEL

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