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“I Won’t Be Misrepresenting Anybody’s Life Experience But My Own.” A Conversation with Cartoonist and Comedian Luke Healy

“I Won’t Be Misrepresenting Anybody’s Life Experience But My Own.” A Conversation with Cartoonist and Comedian Luke Healy

The Con Artists Talks to Connor Ratliff">The Author of The Con Artists Talks to Connor Ratliff

By Literary Hub | July 7, 2022

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On the Weird Little Essays That Inspired <em

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Literary Disco Crew Discusses Jean Shepherd's In God We Trust">The Literary Disco Crew Discusses Jean Shepherd's In God We Trust

By Literary Disco | December 28, 2020

The Car Culture That's Helping Destroy the Planet Was By No Means Inevitable

The Car Culture That's Helping Destroy the Planet Was By No Means Inevitable

On the Relentless Campaign to Force Americans to Accept the Automobile

By Jeff Sparrow | November 27, 2019

Western vs. Noir: How Two Genres Shaped Postwar American Culture

Western vs. Noir: How Two Genres Shaped Postwar American Culture

Franco Moretti on Opposing Big-Screen Views of the Country

By Franco Moretti | March 25, 2019

Elizabeth McCracken: Toward a Unified Theory of the Doughnut

Elizabeth McCracken: Toward a Unified Theory of the Doughnut

Bowlaway Wonders if One Can Eat a Hole">In Which the Author of Bowlaway Wonders if One Can Eat a Hole

By Elizabeth McCracken | February 5, 2019

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9 Novels That Tap into the Myths of "Americana"

Susan Bernhard on Fiction That Examines the Wounds of Rural America

By Susan Bernhard | December 10, 2018

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