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I was recently invited to participate in the “Significant Objects” art project, joining the likes of Christopher Sorrentino, Ed Park, Maud Newton, Colson Whitehead and Nicholson Baker. Short version is they send a bunch of writers a random photo...
Writing for Tablet Magazine, Adam Kirsch finds The Humbling "thinly imagined, with few surprises in plot or language."
The books he has produced since then, as he entered his 70s, can only be called late late Roth—or better still, endgame Roth,...
There are still tickets available for next week's Center for Fiction Awards Dinner, and although it's a steep tariff in these tough times, as you can see past events have been star-studded evenings, so if you're at all inclined to support the only...
For those interested, registration has officially opened for my first foray into higher learning, the Novel I writing course I will be teaching at UCLA in the Winter term. Syllabus has been submitted and here's the high level look at what the 10-week...
If you've paid any attention whatsoever to TEV over the years, you'll know that we're just ga-ga about The Paris Review Interviews series. As each volume has come out, we've pretty much gobbled it up and they keep ending up in the Recommended sidebar...
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