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Claire Lyons | Monday, October 3, 2022
The difficulty in discussing Hanif Abdurraqib’s work lies in the fact that I cannot describe his artistic mission as eloquently as he can. He is the type of writer that I think everybody strives to be: ambitious but not pretentious, emotional but objective, disarming but doesn’t leave too much of himself on the page, etc.
Mike Donovan | Thursday, April 12, 2018
Irresponsible post-modernists tend to leave a broad, often vacuous, gash of absurdity (read: crap) in their literary wake. The acutely self-aware (semi) post-modernist, Julián Herbert, explains: “In the majority of cases, a post-modern novel is nothing more than a costumbriso cross-dressing as cool jazz and/or pedantic and/or pedantic rhetoric a la Kenneth Goldsmith that spends
April Feng | Thursday, October 29, 2015
I started my junior year prepared. On the first night of the semester, my roommates and I opened a huge bottle of diet Coke celebrating the fact that we were finally not starting from zero. Indeed, with six jobs, two majors, 19 academic credits, many close friends and a sense of familiarity, I firmly believed this