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Michael Chabon

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The Midnight World

Glenn Fleishman’s history of the comic strip as a technological artifact vividly restores the world of newspaper printing—gamboge, Zip-A-Tone, flongs, and all.

by Michael Chabon via New York Review of Books on November 28, 2024
“Ulysses” on Trial

It was a setup: a stratagem worthy of wily Ulysses himself.

by Michael Chabon via New York Review of Books on September 13, 2019

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A Nice, Provocative Silence

The author of "Cahokia Jazz" reflects on the similarities between historical fiction and science fiction, and the imaginative space opened by archival silences.

by Francis Spufford, Devin Thomas O’Shea via HNN on August 13, 2024

Spring Hill painting

The Pittsburgh School

Part of what defines Pittsburgh literature is the transcendent in the prosaic, the sacred in the profane. An intimation of beauty amid a kingdom of ugliness.

by Ed Simon via Belt Magazine on May 13, 2024

Zora Neale Hurston in a bookstore with a copy of 'American Stuff'

How Did Artists Survive the First Great Depression?

What is the role of artists in a crisis?

by David A. Taylor via Literary Hub on June 29, 2020

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