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Ryan Smernoff

Ryan Smernoff is a writer who has worked as an assistant editor at Henry Holt, Knopf, and Norton. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University.

The Brockmeier Variations: A Parade of Spectral Phenomena in “The Ghost Variations”

Ryan Smernoff takes in "The Ghost Variations," a new short story collection by Kevin Brockmeier....

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Only the Fools: The Fable of Identity and Convention in Catherine Lacey’s “Pew”

A review of “Pew,” the latest novel from Catherine Lacey....

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Kicking Down Doors: On Timothy J. Hillegonds’s “The Distance Between”

Ryan Smernoff reviews Timothy J. Hillegonds’s debut memoir, “The Distance Between.”...

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Los Angeles Review of Books

Voices Against the Wall: The Hilarious Terror of Karen Russell’s “Orange World and Other Stories”

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Home Is Where the Heart Breaks: Abbigail N. Rosewood’s “If I Had Two Lives”

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Los Angeles Review of Books

Pamphlets for Sale: How Sam Lipsyte’s “Hark” Will Save Us All

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Fraught with Peril: On Lucia Berlin’s “Evening in Paradise” and “Welcome Home”

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