Death of a Death

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May 13, 2014

Last week, I wrote about Will Self’s claim that the novel is dead, which inspired a historical analysis from Daniel D’Addario at Salon. Now, at The Globe and Mail, Russell Smith wonders: is the novel-is-dead article dead?

is a staff writer for The Millions and an MFA candidate at Johns Hopkins. Prior to coming to Baltimore, he studied literature and worked in IT while living in Dublin, Ireland. You can find him on Twitter at @tdbeckwith.

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Elmore Leonard’s Detroit

Curiosities
April 18, 2014
Does a writer make the city or does the city make the writer? At Grantland, Michael Weinreb discusses why Elmore Leonard is the ultimate Motor City writer and discovers Leonard's Detroit. "Without his books, the city would still have suffered the same hellish decline. But because of him, that suffering was rendered into an art form all its own." Pair with: Our own Bill Morris writing against Detroit's ruin porn reputation.
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