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The Situation in American Writing: T.C. Boyle

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In the end, art is art and the world is the world.

The Situation In American Writing: Steve Himmer

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If we write about the past or the future, even an imaginary past or unlikely future, we’re always really writing about the present.

The Situation in American Writing: Christopher Bollen

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Rarely can literature keep pace with a revolution.

The Situation in American Writing: Dana Spiotta

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Maybe art, on some level, is about dissatisfaction with the given.

The Situation in American Writing: Siddhartha Deb

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Literature has been sleeping on the job so long, especially in the neoliberal-Anglo-American world, that I’m surprised it chose to wake up at all.

The Situation in American Writing: Aimee Bender

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I don’t want to think that just because I am a writer I have things to say on all important topics.

The Situation in American Writing: Laura van den Berg

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Literature — American or otherwise — is always dead or dying. And yet somehow we go on.

Fiction Weekly (December 16)

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The week’s best online fiction.

The Situation in American Writing: Gary Shteyngart

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I’m totally an individual! I don’t belong to any organization. I’m even canceling Netflix.