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June 30, 2015

American Exceptional

June 30, 2015/ Barrett Hathcock

Adam Begley's long and exhaustive biography of iconic 20th century author John Updike reads like one long string of new books and new love affairs - but does it capture the man?

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Arts & Life
Barrett Hathcock, biography, Book Review, July 2015
April 30, 2015

The Great Blacksby

April 30, 2015/ Barrett Hathcock

If Richard Pryor had spent time in the ghettos of L.A. County and had any interest in writing a novel, he might have come up with a book like Paul Beatty's The Sellout: a beautifully offensive meditation on riches and race.

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Fiction, Literary Criticism
Barrett Hathcock, Book Review, fiction, literary criticism, May 2015
December 31, 2014

Short Tales on a Tight Rein

December 31, 2014/ Barrett Hathcock

The contemporary American short story is a kind of stunt double for the novel. Monica McFawn’s Bright Shards of Someplace Else is one such collection, each of its eleven stories posturing like a dare accepted.

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December 31, 2014/ Barrett Hathcock/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Barrett Hathcock, Book Review, fiction, January 2015, literary criticism
July 31, 2013

My Life as a Mannequin

July 31, 2013/ Barrett Hathcock

A young man on a tentative law school track encounters the fiction of Philip Roth, and suddenly, his lostness acquires a commanding sense of purpose. An essay by Barrett Hathcock.

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July 31, 2013/ Barrett Hathcock/
Fiction, Arts & Life
August 2013, Barrett Hathcock, fiction, Philip Roth
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