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December 16, 2011

Alfred Kazin’s Brownsville 0

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While reviewing  Alfred Kazin‘s Journals, Christopher Byrd pays a visit to Brownsville and Kazin’s boyhood home.

December 16, 2011

Whitman Passes Away 0

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George Whitman, owner of the storied Parisian English-language bookstore Shakespeare & Company, died this week at the age of 98.

December 16, 2011

Unheralded Greats 0

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Taylor Antrim takes a page out of Roxane Gay’s book and “goes in search of great 2011 fiction unjustly ignored by The New York Times.”

December 16, 2011

A Year in Reading: Christopher Boucher 2

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To me, this is a sign of a great book: It not only nests in your memory, but weaves itself into your life, giving you language for something you already knew, and just didn’t know you knew.

December 16, 2011

More On Hitchens 1

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In tribute to the passing of Christopher Hitchens, The Browser has collected some of his essays. His final memoir will be released in the states in April of next year.

December 16, 2011

A Peek Behind the Curtain 0

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Want to learn more about our acclaimed, annual Year in Reading series? At Electric Literature, I talk about how it started, how we put it together, and some of my favorite entries from years past.