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William Deresiewicz
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William Deresiewicz is the author of The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech , coming out July 28.
The loss of revenue from live events is only the start of this particular disaster.
In the pseudonymous author’s Neapolitan Novels, the price of leaving Naples is that you can never be at home again.
Relying on the rich to make college affordable for poor students reinforces the system that created those inequalities in the first place.
The writings of Tom McCarthy are a case study in the application of theory to fiction.
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With its lack of art and absence of thought, the blockbuster Norwegian novel disappoints.
The unflinching fiction of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
The task of a critic has to do with the nature of the knowledge we call art.
Kurt Vonnegut sought to fool us with his eyes wide open.
Ann Beattie is an artist of the things we don’t say, or can’t, and that find expression anyway.
Vulnerability was what made David Foster Wallace so beloved, but it often led him to surrender too much in his fiction.
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