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EXCERPT: Famous Writers I Have Known by James Magnuson

by JAMES MAGNUSON The following is excerpted from the book, Famous Writers I Have Known (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014), by author James Magnuson.  A small time con-man is posing as a famously reclusive writer named V. S. Mohle. He manages to get hired by a well-funded graduate writing program at a… read more 

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IN FLIGHT: Don DeLillo’s The Silence

by HENRY VEGGIAN As hard as it may be to do, try to ignore the warning. That’s what I tell myself, but it’s still there, on the inside flap of the dust jacket. It has the tone of a press release, but it sounds more like the car horn you… read more 

ABOUT HENRY VEGGIAN
Henry Veggian teaches in the Department of English at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Understanding Don DeLillo (2014).

JANINE BARCHAS
Janine Barchas is the Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Lost Books of Jane Austen, which led to an exhibition entitled “Austen in Austin” at the Ransom Center in the fall of 2019. She has also contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Lit Hub.