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Safe Words: The Millions Interviews Teddy Wayne

Michael Bourne - 7.12.2022
"There’s been no deficit of disaffected or disenchanted middle-age white male protagonists in American literature."
Michael Bourne - 7.12.2022
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Reviews

Don Winslow’s ‘City on Fire’: Good, Old-Fashioned American Pulp

Michael Bourne - 4.28.2022
City on Fire is good, old-fashioned American pulp fiction—intelligent, well-written pulp, even—but pulp nonetheless.
Michael Bourne - 4.28.2022
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Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne

Michael Bourne - 12.18.2021
I became a Whitehead evangelist, reading all his books and pressing them on friends.
Michael Bourne - 12.18.2021
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Year in Reading

Year in Reading: Michael Bourne

Michael Bourne - 12.19.2020
They should hand out a copy of The Half Has Never Been Told to every American kid finishing college and every newly elected member of Congress.
Michael Bourne - 12.19.2020
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Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne

Michael Bourne - 12.21.2019
How is it that Don Winslow is not a household name?
Michael Bourne - 12.21.2019
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Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne

Michael Bourne - 12.22.2018
These are tough times for fiction.
Michael Bourne - 12.22.2018
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The Millions Interview

Motherhood Is Life-Shattering: The Millions Interviews Kirsten Lunstrum

Michael Bourne - 10.18.2018 | 2
I write less than I might have if I hadn’t become a parent. That’s just the truth. But my fiction has deepened with the experience of raising other humans.
Michael Bourne - 10.18.2018 | 2
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Essays

The Failure Artist: Writing Bullshit, Getting Rejected, and Keeping at It

Michael Bourne - 8.7.2018 | 1
Failing to sell my book killed the part of me that still believed I was going to be a famous writer. To my astonishment, this realization set me free.
Michael Bourne - 8.7.2018 | 1
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Essays

The Queering of Nick Carraway

Michael Bourne - 4.23.2018 | 16
I suspect the queer readings of Nick Carraway say more about the way we read now than they do about Nick or The Great Gatsby.
Michael Bourne - 4.23.2018 | 16
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Reviews

Bottoming Out: On Leslie Jamison’s ‘The Recovering’

Michael Bourne - 4.9.2018
That is the deeper secret to recovery, that force of constructive listening, the almost osmotic process of drawing the pain out of a human being in crisis and allowing it to settle, if only for an hour, in the body of the group.
Michael Bourne - 4.9.2018
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Reviews

What Steve Bannon Saw: On Joshua Green’s ‘Devil’s Bargain’

Michael Bourne - 1.9.2018 | 1
Devil’s Bargain is the first thing I’ve read in the last year and a half that manages to make some sense of the human catastrophic weather event that is Steve Bannon.
Michael Bourne - 1.9.2018 | 1
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Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne

Michael Bourne - 12.16.2017
The novel is a perfectly realized parable of Southern manhood in a time of great cultural change.
Michael Bourne - 12.16.2017
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Reviews

Publishing a Novel, as Explained to Aliens

Michael Bourne - 9.14.2017 | 8
Much of 'Under the Cover' is written in a curiously anthropological tone, as if Childress were explaining how to eat a bowl of cereal to a race of aliens who had never seen a spoon.
Michael Bourne - 9.14.2017 | 8
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Essays

When the Beasts Spoke: Thoreau and the Sound of America

Michael Bourne - 8.21.2017
One of the pleasures of Walls’s 'Thoreau' is seeing how Thoreau’s stubborn refusal to lead an ordinary life turned a bright, but otherwise rather ordinary young man into a great and original artist.
Michael Bourne - 8.21.2017
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The Millions Interview

Trouble in Paradise: The Millions Interviews Julia Fierro

Michael Bourne - 7.20.2017
Writing and reading is how I practice my humanity and to write only within my limited experience seems counterproductive, and cowardly.
Michael Bourne - 7.20.2017
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Quick Hits

An Inside Job: Lessons from Watergate for the Trump Era

Michael Bourne - 3.16.2017 | 1
Since much of the material being leaked about alleged connections between Trump and Russia involves classified national security matters, Trump can plausibly threaten to prosecute the leakers. And, unlike Nixon, Trump has a stalwart Republican majority in both houses of Congress.
Michael Bourne - 3.16.2017 | 1
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Essays

Flying Blind: Truth, Journalism, and the Digital Age

Michael Bourne - 2.13.2017
Without that truth-seeking ecosystem of healthy small- and mid-size daily newspapers to explain national news in terms local readers can understand, Americans are left stewing in separate echo chambers, one urban, educated, and liberal, the other working-class, rural, and spoiling for a fight.
Michael Bourne - 2.13.2017
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Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne

Michael Bourne - 12.4.2016
The election of Donald Trump on a wave of white aggrievement changed the way I read A Country Road, a Tree, as I suspect it will change the way I read and understand everything in the years to come.
Michael Bourne - 12.4.2016
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