CONTRIBUTOR PROFILE

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.



  • Books Profile

    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 Saussurede 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… >>

  • Books Review

    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 Ring Lardner
Profile ZZ Packer
Profile Gordon Lish
Profile Raymond Carver
Profile Miranda July
Profile Don DeLillo
Review Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
Review The Body
Review Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Review Birds of America
Review The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Review The Corrections
Review A Gate at the Stairs
Review Reasons to Live