- 10/14/10 /
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Jonathan Franzen’s National Book Award Snub Should Rock No One’s Bookcase
Awards, notoriously, mean almost nothing — particularly in literature.
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Sam Anderson Archive
- 2/22/10 /
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Anderson: The Best Writing Advice of the Best Writing Advice
Sam Anderson picks the top tips from the 'Guardian''s survey of Will Self, Neil Gaiman, Zadie Smith, and more.
- 2/18/10 /
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Anderson: Dave Eggers, The Paris Review — Let’s Make This Happen
A blogger cuts through the speculation on the venerable publication's new editorship with a boldly counterintuitive idea.
- 2/18/10 /
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Anderson: My Literary Twitter Experiment
Sampling the text-stream.
- 2/17/10 /
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Anderson: ChatRoulette Founder Exposed — and He Hardly Seems Evil at All
He says amazing things like, “Bandwidth bills show sums which shock me as a teenager, but I am not very worried.”
- 1/28/10 /
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Anderson: A Second Chance for J.D. Salinger
It always struck me as unfair that 'Catcher in the Rye' got ghetto-ized as a slightly embarrassing young adult novel.
- 12/20/09 /
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Obsessions Small and Mega: The Best Books of 2009
Sam Anderson's favorite books of the year range from the super-short stories of Lydia Davis to the mammoth work of William T. Vollmann. All have obsession in common.
- 9/21/09 /
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Anderson: There Was No Tracing!
Sam Anderson defends himself against libelous, treasonous accusations of tracing.
- 9/17/09 /
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Anderson: A Review of Flight, the Definitive MJ Biography
Sam Anderson looks back at his book 'Flight,' a biography of Michael Jordan, written when the author was 13.
- 9/10/09 /
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Anderson: Obama Averts a Spiritual Waterloo
The health-care debate had become so inane it seemed to prohibit the basic conditions of good speechmaking. My preemptive cynicism turned out to be both very right and very wrong.
