Fiction: New & Noteworthy
By Michael LaPointe, Dina Gachman, Arne De BoeverNovember 13, 2013
The Darlings by Cristina Alger
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
At Night We Walk in Circles by Daniel Alarcón
Second Acts: Daniel Alarcón's At Night We Walk in Circles
Such Great Heights: Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying Turns 40
It’s Not All Rotten Apples on Wall Street: Cristina Alger's The Darlings
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LARB Contributors
Michael LaPointe is a writer and critic in Toronto, Canada. He contributes to the Times Literary Supplement and writes a monthly literary essay for The Walrus.
Dina Gachman's comedic blog about the economic divide, Bureaucracy for Breakfast, has been featured on NPR and Chelsea Handler's Borderline Amazing Comedy. Her writing has appeared in Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, The Hairpin, Ask Men, and Glamour. She's written comic books about Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, both published by Bluewater Comics. You can find her on Twitter @TheElf26.
Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, where he also directs the MA Aesthetics and Politics program. He is the author of States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel (2012) and Narrative Care (2013) and editor of Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology (2012) and The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Vol. 1 (2013). He edits Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy and the critical theory/philosophy section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also a member of the boundary 2 collective and an Advisory Editor for the Oxford Literary Review.
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