The Art of Fielding
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Chad Harbach’s 2011 take on the classic American baseball novel offers a bit of Malamud, a bit of Melville, and a lot of refreshingly traditional literary writing.
Yaddo!
What do James Baldwin, Aaron Copeland, Delmore Schwartz, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Roth, Sylvia Plath, Milton Avery, Ned Rorem, Carson McCullers…
Book Groups
I’ve joined the Novel Network, a innovative new venture that connects book groups with authors. On Novel Network, everything…
Essay on Ugandan Literary Activism
“Tales from Here and There: On Ugandan Literary Culture,” which appeared in the Millions, was one of my all-time…