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Tracy O’Neill

Brooklyn transplant Tracy O'Neill learned words like enjambment, tabula rasa, and formalism in her studies of European intellectual history and literary theory at Connecticut College. After moving to the city in 2007, she completed tenures at Current Biography as a staff writer and at CollegeOTR.com as managing editor. A freelance writer, she has editorialized on counterfeiters for Publishers Weekly and meeting strangers for the Nashua Telegraph. Pondering formal considerations is her life, literally and metaphorically.



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    Amy Hempel Pithily Clever West Coast Writer

    By Tracy O’Neill

    A West Coast writer concerned with natural disasters, personal disasters,…

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    Ferdinand de Saussure Swiss Linguist/Writer

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    Gordon Lish Minimalist Innovator

    By Tracy O’Neill

    Perhaps no man has promoted contemporary minimalist literature as much… >>

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    Michel Foucault French Philosopher/Sociologist

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    Sylvia Plath Renowned Confessional Poet

  • Culture Profile

    Critical Mob Cultural Collective

    Critical Mob is a discovery site, an editorial-driven, team-curated effort… >>

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    Reasons to Live

    Amy Hempel

    With grace and wit, Hempel illuminates the struggles and regrets… >>

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    Birds of America

    Lorrie Moore

    Disaffected, afraid, and confused, Moore’s characters move trance-like and displaced… >>

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Profile Ann Beattie
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Review Believing Is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography)
Review Birds of America
Review Blueprints for Building Better Girls
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Review By Nightfall
List Crazy About You: Psychotic Literary Loves
Profile Don DeLillo
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Review Eat the Document (book)
Review Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever
Review Everything Matters!
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Profile Gordon Lish
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Profile Joshua Ferris
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List Quit Your Day Job: Writers with Other Careers
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Profile Tao Lin
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Review The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
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Review The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Review The Great Night
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Review The Safety of Objects
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List Tiny Titans: Young Heroes of Children’s Literature
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Review What Was Mine
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