Lisa Borst

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  • Oct 31, 2025
    In a 1990 review of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, John Leonard described the book as “unbuttoned, as though the author-god had gone to a ballgame.” Vineland is maybe...
  • Sep 3, 2025
    LISA BORST: Scott, is the Cracker Barrel controversy important? A. S. HAMRAH: A lot of people are adamant in stating that it’s unimportant. I first saw that position...
  • Jul 9, 2025
    Novels are better than television. For a long time this thesis underwrote nearly all literature that tackled the subject of TV. In the canonical TV novels of the 20th century,...