American Novelists
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Substack and the American Novel April 24, 2025
Most 21st century novels don’t matter much. They matter, of course, to the people who write them, and to whatever dwindling subset of the wider public still reads them, but, here in America, at least, the majority of folks couldn’t care less. Of cour...
The Last of the Boom April 23, 2025
Writer, Nobel laureate, and sometime Peruvian presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa died last week at the age of eighty-nine. He was the last surviving member of the “Boom,” a dazzling generation of Latin American novelists who made their name in...
