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Michael Szalay

Michael Szalay is professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party (2012) and New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State (2000).

Streaming Enthusiasm and the Industrious Family Drama

Michael Szalay on what the rise of streaming platforms and their dark family dramas tell us about the US flagging empire....

MICHAEL SZALAY

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The Incorporation Artist

IN DANA SPIOTTA’S Stone Arabia, Denise Kranis tries to convince her brother Nik to move in with her. He’s broke and his health is failing, and Denise can no longer continue to support him. He dismisses the proposition, and ...

MICHAEL SZALAY

Dana Spiotta interviewed by Michael Szalay

Novelist Dana Spiotta talks about her latest novel, Stone Arabia, her other work, and finding the connections between California and upstate New York; spoiler alert: they're both odd.   ...

MICHAEL SZALAY

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