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Bridey Heing

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘Midwesterners Have Seen Themselves As Being in the Center of Everything.’

by Bridey Heing April 23, 2019October 19, 2022

In “The Heartland,” Kristin L. Hoganson says America’s Midwest has been more connected to global events than popular history allows — especially popular history as told in the Midwest.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

How To Hide An Empire

by Bridey Heing March 8, 2019October 19, 2022

Daniel Immerwahr says studying the history of the Greater United States opens our eyes to how “racism has shaped the actual country itself. The legal borders of the country, but also the borders of the heart.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story

Edward Gorey: A Highly Conjectural Man

by Bridey Heing January 29, 2019October 19, 2022

When asked if there was “anything people don’t understand” about him, Gorey responded: “Yes. No. Yes. No.” A new biography by Mark Dery attempts to sort myth from reality.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

Sarah Perry on ‘Melmoth,’ Monsters, and Making Her Readers Feel Responsible for Mass Atrocity

by Bridey Heing October 17, 2018October 19, 2022

“It was important to me that the ‘villains’ in the book were ordinary people, because readers are ordinary people, and people who do terrible things are often ordinary people.”

Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story

An Immoderate Novel for an Immoderate Season: An Interview with Olivia Laing

by Bridey Heing September 11, 2018October 19, 2022

Olivia Laing’s new novel, “Crudo,” is a fictionalized account of the summer of 2017, written in real time by Laing — from the perspective of Kathy Acker.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Story

What Ever Happened To the Truth?

by Bridey Heing July 23, 2018October 19, 2022

Michiko Kakutani is interested in how the distinction between fact and fiction has blurred — and how this makes us all complicit.

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