Fiction

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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  Playing with Time: A Conversation with Tessa Hadley

  Jane Gayduk interviews Tessa Hadley about her life and writing.

  Jane GaydukFeb 6, 2016

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• A Life in Torment

  Two novels set in Buenos Aires approach Argentina's fraught history of violence and corruption.

  Martín GambarottaFeb 3, 2016

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• New York Trance — Geoff Dyer and the Life of the Writer

  In Dyer's repetitions and leitmotifs, we get the sense of watching a mind traveling between planes of existence.

  Toby LloydJan 31, 2016

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  • Literary Fiction

  • Nonfiction

• The Mystery Behind the Name

  Katherine Montwieler considers the relationship between personal and cultural traumas in Elizabeth Strout's "My Name is Lucy Barton."

  Katherine MontwielerJan 25, 2016

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• The Death of the Author

  Rhian Sasseen deconstructs the reader's obsession with authorial suicide.

  Rhian SasseenJan 23, 2016

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  I Need to Know Everything About You: Melissa Chadburn with Carmiel Banasky

  Melissa Chadburn interviews Carmiel Banasky.

  Melissa ChadburnJan 22, 2016

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  Beautiful Lies

  Alex Espinoza interviews Joy Castro.

  Alex EspinozaJan 20, 2016

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  “Beauty, Love and Vanity Itself”: An Interview with Diane Williams

  Annie DeWitt interviews Diane Williams about her new short story collection, "Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine."

  Annie DeWittJan 18, 2016

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  The Full-Spectrum Loser

  "Hotels of North America" consists of a series of Morse's hotel reviews for RateYourLodging.com.

  Ira WellsJan 16, 2016

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• Ephemeral Epiphanies

  "Between You and Me," the tale of a middle-aged Manhattanite's domestication in the "raccoon-infested wilds of northern New Jersey," is a lovely, quiet novel.

  Matt SeidelJan 16, 2016

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• When New York Erupted

  In "City on Fire," the blackout serves as the moment when New York erupted.

  Alex NorciaJan 15, 2016

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• A Strange and Endless Journey: A Conversation with Jamey Gambrell, translator of Vladimir Sorokin’s “The Blizzard”

  Alina Cohen interviews translator Jamey Gambrell about Vladimir Sorokin's new novel, "The Blizzard."

  A. Cerisse CohenJan 13, 2016

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