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Joseph Olshan

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Why Contemporary Novels Can’t Resonate with All

Is it possible to write about a book you’ve read and didn’t viscerally respond to without discouraging that book’s other potential readers? Is it possible to recognize a book’s many qualities and still say that your experience reading it wasn’t exactly satisfying? I am going to try and do this…
Joseph Olshan
October 1, 2018
Miscellany

Finding Narrative in Dangerous Tourist Settings

I recently visited the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland’s County Clare—a mecca that attracts tourists from all over the world. The cliffs rise precipitously above the Atlantic, and when you stand at the top of them, you look down on a short grassy decent that quickly ends at a sharp…
Joseph Olshan
September 18, 2018
Miscellany

The Ever-Changing Climate of Book Reviewing

A good friend of mine (who started her career more or less at the same time) reminded me the other day how it used to be when a writer of literary fiction published a book. All the reviews would appear within a couple of weeks, and there were quite a…
Joseph Olshan
August 7, 2018

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