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Contributed the new introduction to the 2019 Critical Editions The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg.
Published anonymously in 1824 in Scotland, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a gothic psychological tale that will leave readers grasping for the truth. Weaving themes of good versus evil, psychosis, mystery, and religious extremism all wrapped in metafiction, James Hogg’s masterpiece reads like it could have been written today.
This edition… includes a new, critical introduction that places the book in literary historical context. CONTINUE READING
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Most Recent Clip…
The Modern Woman: Gendered Landscapes compiled by Yung-Hee Kim
(Korean Literature Now, Summer 2018)
Editor and translator Yung-Hee Kim does an exceptional job of collecting nine eminent short stories by adept twentieth-century female Korean authors in this anthology. Kim, a University of Hawaii professor of Korean literature, joins together not only the stories but also engages in a conversation about women writers and their literature in modern Korea. She introduces the fundamentals of Confucian gender principles, which give birth to the idea of the “virtuous woman.” … CONTINUE READING
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I am the founding editor of The Wild Hunt. Along with acquiring new fiction, non-fiction, and artwork, I also contribute articles, which can be found in the archives. Also, I am a frequent contributor to Mystery Scene magazine, where I review new and upcoming crime novels and thrillers.
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I previously acted as the World Literature Editor for The Mantle. My recent articles are below and a complete list is available here.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
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Thursday, January 22, 2015
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Untitled Portraits of an Imaginary City
(Literary Orphans, Winter 2017)
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Metamorphosing Identity: Beauty Looks Down on Me
(Korean Literature Now, Autumn 2017)
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Review: “The Impossible Fairy Tale” by Han Yujoo
(Words Without Borders, March 2017)
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What to Read Now: Untrustworthy Narrators
(World Literature Today, January 2016)
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Recommended Reading 2015 from Necessary Fiction
(December 2015)
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The Rash
(Litro, November 2015)
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Helen McClory’s On the Edges of Vision
(Monkeybicycle, October 2015)
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Chris Canders’s Whisper Hollow
(Necessary Fiction, March 2015)
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Maze
(The Electronic Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature, July 2014)
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Two Poems by Erwin Uhrmann, translated from German
(a Perimeter, Issue 1 – July 2014)
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Letitia Trent’s Echo Lake
(Necessary Fiction, July 2014)
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Stephen Graham Jones’ “After the People Lights Have Gone Off”
(Monkeybicycle, June 2014)
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Karen Russell’s Sleep Donation
(The Miami Rail, June 2014)
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Dorothy Tse’s “Snow and Shadow”
(Monkeybicycle, June 2014)
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Bohumil Hrabal’s “Harlequin’s Millions”
(Monkeybicycle, May 2014)
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Unreliable Narrators in Literature
(Interesting Literature, January 2014)
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Vsevolod Nekrasov’s “I Live I See”
(Words Without Borders, October 2013)
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Word for Word / Wort für Wort with German and American Writing Students
(Words Without Borders, April 2013)
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Literatur im Museum anthology
(Limbus Verlag, November 2012)
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When I Walked to the Edge, I Couldn’t Go Back
(The Gap, November 2012)
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It Would Not Be a Good Week for Oliver Greengrass
(Ugly Duckling Presse/Columbia University, March 2012)
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Conquering the Third Reich
(The Brooklyn Rail, February 2012)
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Crime Scene: The Festival of New Literature from Europe
(Words Without Borders, December 2011)
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Book Reviews – Various
(Publishers Weekly, 2011-2013)
