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Oct 16, 2025
Prelude
Every night, ten-year-old J.S. Bach reached his little fingers through a locked bookshelf with a latticed front, rolled up a book of sheet music inside, drew it out, and...
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Oct 14, 2025
Matthew Gasda is interested in “strange loops.”
This is the term cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter coined in his Pulitzer Prize–winning Gödel,...
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Oct 3, 2025
It takes years for actors to learn how to cry on command, yet for poet and author Ocean Vuong, crying comes as easily as breathing. Vuong cried on NPR, he...
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Sep 23, 2025
Who has heard of Gustave Caillebotte? Among my family members who grew up in the Chicago area, his most famous painting — Paris Street; Rainy Day — is widely...
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Jun 12, 2025
Margo’s Got Money Troubles appears on the jacket to be a book about motherhood and pornography, but it’s really about the internet. But wait, according to internet...
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Apr 22, 2025
John Pistelli likes books that have “all the stuff”: chapter titles, epigraphs, maximalist plots, and unforgettable characters. He self-published five novels, and the...
Oct 16, 2025Prelude Every night, ten-year-old J.S. Bach reached his little fingers through a locked bookshelf with a latticed front, rolled up a book of sheet music inside, drew it out, and...
Oct 14, 2025Matthew Gasda is interested in “strange loops.” This is the term cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter coined in his Pulitzer Prize–winning Gödel,...
Oct 3, 2025It takes years for actors to learn how to cry on command, yet for poet and author Ocean Vuong, crying comes as easily as breathing. Vuong cried on NPR, he...
Sep 23, 2025Who has heard of Gustave Caillebotte? Among my family members who grew up in the Chicago area, his most famous painting — Paris Street; Rainy Day — is widely...
Jun 12, 2025Margo’s Got Money Troubles appears on the jacket to be a book about motherhood and pornography, but it’s really about the internet. But wait, according to internet...
Apr 22, 2025John Pistelli likes books that have “all the stuff”: chapter titles, epigraphs, maximalist plots, and unforgettable characters. He self-published five novels, and the...