Anderson: There Was No Tracing!
Sam Anderson defends himself against libelous, treasonous accusations of tracing.
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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.
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.
Anderson on the Ultimate Summer Read
A web-wide book club is discussing 'Infinite Jest' from now until September.
Anderson: Poetry Month Showdown, Herrera vs. Kleinzahler
The thick-mustachioed activist against the grumpy contrarian!
Anderson: Wrestling With the Mini-Biography of David Foster Wallace
Our book critic is of two minds about an epic 'New Yorker' article on the life and death of David Foster Wallace.
Anderson: John Updike, Essayist
He was one of the greatest belletrists of all time — a master of the short, casual, elegant, whimsical, roving piece about absolutely anything.
Read an Excerpt From Roberto Bolaño’s New Poetry Collection
If you want a Bolaño book that’s not going to tip your car over, 'The Romantic Dogs' has you covered.
Essential Bolaño: The Five Most Unskippable Passages in ‘2666’
If you’re thinking of quitting, try one of these first. It might inspire you to settle in and read the rest.
Roberto Bolaño’s Five-Page Sentence: Read It Here First!
Read it for Bolaño’s obvious improvisational delight in keeping the sentence afloat, phrase by phrase — a skill the critic James Wood once compared to 'someone punting a leaf.'
Sam Anderson Remembers David Foster Wallace
Lots of public figures organize their work around the demons that eventually take them down, but few of them ever do so with the apparent wisdom and self-awareness Wallace did.
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