Articles By marc weingarten

Adam Thirlwell's Delighted States of literary criticism

Wed, Jul 30, 2008, 12:00 pm

Lost in translation

Into the Wild: Janet Sarbanes and Leni Zumas

Wed, Jul 9, 2008, 12:00 pm

New short fiction tackles unsettling subject matter

The Story of a Marriage: Gay Love in the Time of Eisenhower

Wed, Jun 11, 2008, 11:55 am

Andrew Sean Greer's novel is far from real

Renewing the Faith: McSweeney's Goes Back to Basics, Makes Publishing Fun

Wed, May 28, 2008, 11:57 am

As the print media continue to be overtaken by the Internet, and pundits declare that…

Moz Krew: From L.A. to the South Bay, the Annual Smiths Convention

Wed, Apr 9, 2008, 5:59 pm

A game of "Name That Tune" turns bad: "How can you not get 'Ask'?"

Tobias Wolff: Where Our Story Begins

Wed, Apr 2, 2008, 12:00 pm

In author's tales, adulthood is a struggle

Green Dreams: Lydia Millet's How the Dead Dream

Wed, Jan 23, 2008, 12:00 pm

A novel of hope and estrangement

Millard Kaufman’s Life and His Bowl of Cherries

Wed, Oct 17, 2007, 12:00 pm

The nonagenarian novel

Katherine Taylor’s Bildungsromanesque Rules for Saying Goodbye

Wed, Aug 8, 2007, 12:00 pm

Lay 'em as they play 

Search for Satori

Wed, Oct 18, 2006, 12:00 pm

The not at all private life of Allen Ginsberg

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