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Oct 27, 2025
We are English professors who stumbled into a debate about high school pedagogy. We wrote a book to help college instructors teach close reading, the fundamental skill of literary...
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Jun 6, 2025
ONE OF OUR great theorists of the novel is a conceptual practitioner. Tom Comitta began as a poet who distrusted the novel, dismissed it as a commercial form. Among other...
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May 23, 2025
In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as...
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May 13, 2025
I was an English major in college, but I didn’t like it. I didn’t understand why I should pay to study literature when I knew how to read and could do so more happily on...
Oct 27, 2025We are English professors who stumbled into a debate about high school pedagogy. We wrote a book to help college instructors teach close reading, the fundamental skill of literary...
May 23, 2025In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as...