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Ulitskaya Plague
The title of Ludmila Ulitskaya's novelized screenplay, "Just the Plague," about a 1939 outbreak in Moscow, now carries an ironic undertone. I review a translation for the Financial Times.
Joseph Fox
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Preorder 2A.M. in Little America
My new novel, "2 A.M. in Little America," will be published May 10, 2022 by Milkweed Editions. It's available for preordering directly from Milkweed. Use the promo code LITTLEAMERICA for free shipping.
2 A.M. in Little America
Dora Maar Reading of Equilateral
A wonderful month at the Dora Maar House in Menerbes, France. We couldn't have our regular monthly salon this time, but here I am in my office, reading from my novel, "Equilateral."
Leyner Hume Gide reviews
A Times Shortlist review of three "experimental" novels by Mark Leyner, Andrei Gide and Catherine Hume.
Teddy Wayne Apartment Review
A friendship between two Columbia MFA students founders on questions of talent and privilege. My review of Teddy Wayne's "Apartment" in the Financial Times.
In Little America
A migrant looks for safe haven "In Little America." An excerpt from my forthcoming novel, at n + 1.
No Signal Area Perisic
A new Croatian novel, set in the postwar Balkans, draws sly parallels between failed countries and failed loves. Not unresonant reading in our own failing country. My NY Times review of "No-Signal Area"
Advice to writers
I was asked a few questions about the writing life by Advice To Writers