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Eric Miles Williamson

The New Henry Miller Speaks Out: Interview With Eric Miles Williamson, Author of 'Welcome to Oakland'

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Eric Miles Williamson, Independent Presses, Book Reviewing, Small Presses, American Fiction, American Poetry, Criticism, Jack London, Literary Journals, John Updike, Books News
Anis Shivani

What I tell my students is this: Don't read any living American writers. If you're going to read any American writers at all, only read dead ones. That way you can be sure you're not wasting your time.

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The 10 Best Books of 2009

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Daniyal Mueenuddin, East Bay Grease, Philip K. Dick, The Fire Gospel, Paul Starobin, Christopher Miller, Syrian Immigrants, Chloe Aridjis, Michael Faber, Home Boy, In Other Rooms Other Wonders, Dave Eggers, The Naked Eye, Azhar Abidi, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, Brownsville: Stories, Torsten Krol, A Good Fall: Stories, Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank, Steve Hely, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, Melissa Kwasny, Zeitoun, Book of Clouds, Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk Museum of Innocence, Yoko Tawada, Kamila Shamsie, Oscar Casares, The Thing Around Your Neck, Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, H. M. Naqvi, Chris Hedges, Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever, Carolyn Chute, A Free Life, Barbara Ehrenreich, Walter Kirn, Eric Miles Williamson, After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age, Ali Sethi, Franz Wright, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Amigoland, Callisto, Books News
Anis Shivani

Anis Shivani picks his top 10 books for 2009.

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