The Millions : Empathy for the Devil?

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By Garth Risk Hallberg posted at 11:45 am on May 5, 2011 1

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Michael
at 8:27 pm on May 9, 2011
Makes some good points, but leads into a morass of questions about what is expected of American novelists and ultimately into a misunderstanding between the foreground and background in great novels such as Crime and Punishment.

Raskolnikov of Finland – http://literalab.com/post/5230561894/raskolnikov-of-finland

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Garth Risk Hallberg is contributing editor for The Millions. He is the author of A Field Guide to the North American Family. His stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, New York Magazine, Slate, Canteen, Best New American Voices 2008, and Best of the Web 2008. He lives in Brooklyn.