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Spectacular Deaths

2011 in deaths.

by Zack Newick on September 8, 2012March 17, 2013

Sendak Send-Off

An appreciation in parting.

by Zack Newick on May 23, 2012March 17, 2013

Spectacular Deaths

Obituary for a year.

by Zack Newick on February 15, 2012March 17, 2013

Four Paragraphs

Sections excavated from short stories going nowhere.

by Zack Newick on November 30, 2011March 22, 2013

Love or Nothing

Shakespeare asks the big questions and sometimes he answers them. In Romeo and Juliet he asks about love, often.

by Zack Newick on October 19, 2011March 17, 2013

Forgot about Ray

Editor’s note: The following is a brief selection of a running diary of Game 2 of the Knicks-Celtics playoff series, played on April 19, 2011 at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston.

by Zack Newick on April 20, 2011March 22, 2013

The Library Full of Bowling Balls

The short story form is a special kind of animal. It is the form that students of fiction are made to learn first, as though crafting a finely-spun tale of less than twenty or so pages is the first step toward tackling the beast that is the novel. But this is mostly nonsense.

by Zack Newick on April 13, 2011March 17, 2013

The Cape

Recently I went to a reading by the Russian-American writer Gary Shteyngart at Labyrinth. He was reading from his new novel Super Sad True Love Story, a widely praised satirical novel about the very near future. Shteyngart is a young … Read More

by Zack Newick on February 16, 2011March 17, 2013

L.A. Sublime

One of my favorite pieces of writing that I’ve ever read is “Pafko at the Wall,” a novella by Don DeLillo that also serves as the opening to his massive novel _Underworld_. The story is about “The Shot Heard ‘round … Read More

by Zack Newick on February 9, 2011March 17, 2013

The Book Has a Body

Jonathan Safran Foer has had a trajectory in the publishing world that is close to ideal. In 2002, at the age of 25, he published _Everything is Illuminated_, a novel that developed out of his senior thesis at Princeton where … Read More

by Zack Newick on December 8, 2010March 17, 2013

Sarah Palin’s Alaska

Sarah Palin is the politician Jonathan Swift would have imagined for this century if he were living in it. An attractive woman with some sort of strictly defined set of morals, she has exploded onto the scene because she is … Read More

by Zack Newick on November 17, 2010March 17, 2013

The Making of Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson has always been a divisive filmmaker. There are those who revere him and those who think all his films are simultaneously overwrought and underdeveloped. But whatever you may think of him, it is hard to deny that he … Read More

by Zack Newick on October 20, 2010March 17, 2013


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