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• http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-happens-when-we-decide-everyone-else-is-a-narcissist

  

  Shona Sanzgiri

  Aug 17, 2016
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  Shona Sanzgiri

  

  The Art of Fiction No. 231

  The Paris Review

  Few novels stand for a place and time the way Bright Lights, Big City stands for downtown Manhattan in the 1980s. Narrated in the second person, Jay McInerney’s first novel tells the story of a young fact-checker, at a magazine very much like The New Yorker, who loses his way in the cocaine-fueled …

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  Shona Sanzgiri

  A Conversation With Jonathan Franzen

  slate.com - By Isaac Chotiner

  “Manhattan is just all bank branches,” said Jonathan Franzen as he walked through the living room of his home in Santa Cruz, California. When he …

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  Technology changes how authors write, but the big impact isn’t on their style

  theconversation.com - Matthew Kirschenbaum

  “Our writing instruments are also working on our thoughts.” Nietzsche wrote, or more precisely typed, this sentence on a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, …

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  Why American Literature Needs Indie Presses

  The Atlantic - By Nathan Scott McNamara

  As books from major publishers get bigger and more expensive, smaller houses are taking risks on more creative, original works. For better or worse, writers and readers live in an age of the million-dollar book deal. The Big Five publishers (Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, HarperCollins, …

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  Three Likes and a Re-tweet

  Medium - Daniel Paisner

  “If the same tree that falls without making a sound is turned into pulp, and the pulp into paper, and the paper into the pages of a hardly-read …