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Fakes (2012) (with Matthew Vollmer)
Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter (2015) (with Elizabeth Cooperman)
Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter (2015) (with Elizabeth Cooperman)
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (2012)
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David Shields recommends
For Emma (2025)
Ewan Morrison
"Ewan Morrison's harrowing and beautiful new novel, For Emma, is an early warning system for the future. In that way, a worthy successor to Easy Travel to Other Planets, Neuromancer, and, of course, Brave New World."
The Sun Collective (2020)
Charles Baxter
"I’ve been reading, with intense and escalating admiration, Charles Baxter’s novels and stories and essays for decades, but nothing quite prepared me for the radical brilliance of The Sun Collective. It’s as if Sherwood Anderson finally made manifest what was always there: his inner Samuel Beckett. That very real despair is here but also transformed into something else, by book’s end. The dialogue about Hitchcock’s MacGuffin is my single favorite thing Baxter has ever written."
In Extremis (2017)
Tim Parks
"A thrillingly unsentimental - thrilling because unsentimental - meditation on every aspect and orifice of the human body."
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