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Review: How to Read a Book

Merry Christmas

Literary Elitism

Review: How To Read Like a Professor

In Which I Decline to Take Anne Lamott’s Advice

Interpretation Outside of the Institution

O Life!

A Letter from the Trenches of the Method Wars

Hi, Everyone

My Favorite Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

On The Men Eating Hamburgers in Their Cars

How to Like Poetry

Plunging Into the Second Draft

The Adventures of John P. Student

Coming Around on Henry James

Finishing my Novel’s First Draft

Resisting Readers and Political Criticism

Review: Michael Mohr, The Crew

How to Interpret a Text, Part 1: E.D. Hirsch, Validity in Interpretation

Is All Literature Propaganda?

Review: Peter Shull, "Why Teach?"

Some Notes on Balzac

Beyond Identification

Why Is Uncle Tom’s Cabin So Controversial?

The Pugilistic Style

The George Saunders Diaries

Bartleby, the Hero?

"Who Cares?"

In Defense of the Realist Novel

Acquired Taste

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