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Dear Lucy
Dear Lucy Julie Sarkissian Simon & Schuster, April 2013 340 pages $25.00 Genre: literary fiction, debut. Concerning: Lucy, a young woman whose different way of seeing and behaving has compelled her...
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Round-Down: Enough of Genre Debate Already
I’m a little disappointed in Jennifer Weiner. And not in the way you’d think. Certainly not in the same way as Jonathan Franzen. Rather, I’m disappointed that she’s seemingly buying into the genre vs....
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Mary Gordon’s Spending: A Different Breed of Fantasy Lit
From what I can tell, it is impossible for a critic for The New York Times to write about a book like this without the most insufferable condescension to the book and the people who liked it. You...
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When Scientists Study Novels
Methodological reductionism—the practice of explaining something large and complex in terms of its smaller, wieldier parts—is both a strength and a pitfall of scientific approaches to literature....
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