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Recent Comments

• Karl Sweeney says "Wonderful piece which had me laughing..."Nothing Funnier Than Unhappiness: A Necessarily Ill-Informed Argument for Flann O’Brien’s The Poor Mouth as the Funniest Book Ever Written
• M Quaem says "Interesting review, but I respectfully suggest that much of your praise and your claim to be a feminist are contradicted by..."Sing It, Sister! On Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings
• Rusty says "The novel’s footnotes are excellent, but would work just as well in the body of the text. Sims is a true new..."At the Frontiers of the Unsayable: Bennett Sims’s A Questionable Shape
• Marshall says "I can’t believe not a single writer mentioned outlining. Wow."Ask the Writing Teacher: Novelists on First Drafts
• Robert says "Amen, amen, amen to the Annie Dillard comment."George Saunders and the Question of Greatness