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Making Art From Life
Oscar Wilde does not want you to write about yourself. Don’t worry. I do. But I recently read some of Wilde’s collected writings, and he made me think a lot about the relationship between art and life. How do we write about our lives in a way that’s meaningful? Wilde’s writings are intentionally iconoclastic. But…
Satire in the Age of Hype
By the time I purchased the bestselling novel Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke, I had already encountered the book and other readers’ thoughts on it several times—actually, a lot more than several. I had seen the cover, heard the premise, observed reader reactions, and absorbed enough of the online conversation that the novel arrived to…
The Poetry of Attention
If you happened to get July’s Fiction Newsletter, you might have read that I’m having a summer of the 19th century novel. Weirdly enough, I like 19th century novels better than I like 19th century poems. I like 19th century poems, too, but I feel like the 20th century did for poetry what the 19th…