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Post-Pre-Swinocalypse
I had a great weekend at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. As promised, and thanks in large part to the expert moderation skills of Jim Ruland, my panel, “The Post-Modern World,” had almost...
View ArticleThe New Sociology, or, in Praise of the Middle Zone
(Crossposted at Arcade.) Mark McGurl’s The Program Era ends with an insightful reflection on the problem of "scale" in literary study — our almost automatic assumption that we must always scale up the...
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