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Naomi K
Apr 27, 2012
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I've been reading a bunch of essay collections recently. I began with John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead, went on to Tom Bissell's Magic Hours: Essays On Creators and Creation, and am currently working on Elif Batuman's The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books And The People Who Read Them.

I liked them all. How can I dislike it when an intelligent wri…

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