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Porochista Khakpour on Stephen Dixon: An Excerpt from McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #63
When you really live, and when you really tackle that life in your art, the pages never quite end. The narration might drop out, but the story is still in motion. If done right, the border blurs, the boundaries of life and of art fade into each other.
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A Year in Reading: Porochista Khakpour
Maybe to some “Novel of Ideas” or “Books of Ideas” sound like critical and commercial death sentences, but they have always been my page-turners. May we not fear concepts, philosophies, themes in a time when it feels like our survival depends on it.
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#5: Pastoralia by George Saunders
Saunders isn’t simply one of our best writers, but one of our best humans.
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