You are going to want to subscribe to the who-do voodoo that the hulking bipolar disorder in Jeffrey Eugenides' novel The Marriage Plot is a nod to his old peer-ish sort David Foster Wallace. You…
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6 questions we always ask — Nicole Johns, author
Nicole Johns received an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a BA in English from Penn State University-Erie. Her eating disorder developed in high school and worsened in college. The summer after starting the…
I believe I just used the phrase literary pyrotechnics to describe The Virgin Suicides
At some point while Christa was reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles she said (and I can’t find it now) that trying to talk about the book without doing an interpretive dance was nearly impossible. This…
The Virgin Suicides
When I was reading Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides, I could not help thinking of the move “Stand By Me.” Like that movie, The Virgin Suicides was apparently narrated by a male peer of the…