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Ryder [Reading the Dalkey Archive]

  Ryder Djuna Barnes   Original Publication: 1928 Original Publisher: Boni & Liveright First Dalkey Archive Edition: 1990   This is a baggy novel of excess, and as someone who finds it nearly impossible to keep the thread—or develop a coherent thesis (any and all AI grading systems ...

How Literature Saved My Life

David Shields’s books have the power to change the way you approach all art. What separates us is not what happens to us. Pretty much the same things happen to most of us: birth, love, bad driver’s license photos, death. What separates us is how each of us thinks about what happens to us. That’s what I ...

Latest Review: "How Literature Saved My Life" by David Shields

The latest addition to our Reviews Section isn’t a translation. It’s a review I wrote for GoodReads about David Shields’s new book, How Literature Saved My Life, which dropped last week. It’s also a book that I love and that I’ve been talking about on “the podcast”: and elsewhere for ...