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epistolary

I also remember the typical _Harper's_ian epistolary maelstrom that commenced soon after it appeared.

on Depressed Person

—p.16 An Interview with Tom Bissell (13) by Tom Bissell
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Sarah as the interviewer in Brief Interviews

[...] I'm pretty sure the "Sarah" and "Eric Yang" from "Church Not Made with Hands" are the implied questioner and questionee from the final Brief Interview, in which we learn about a woman who saves herself from being murdered by a deranged mulatto. The man in this Brief Interview, who tells the s…

—p.14 An Interview with Tom Bissell (13) by Tom Bissell
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what they have is a metaphysical connection

[...] the harrowing David Lipsky piece Rolling Stone published after his death, wherein we find Dave confessing to Jonathan Franzen that, in Jon's words, Dave had a "notion of not having an authentic self. Of being just quick enough to construct a pleasing self for whomever he was talking to. I s…

—p.14 An Interview with Tom Bissell (13) by Tom Bissell
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antic

In his antic narrative constructions

—p.11 The Sentence (7) by Sven Birkerts
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