OLM Favorites: This Drifty State of Being
/Two Idiots: Dostoevsky's classic and the new novel by Elif Batuman. What, if anything, do they have in common, and what do their differences say about each author's attitude toward fiction?
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/John Updike once affably damned James Agee as a wasted talent who failed to cultivate his craft. Liza Birnbaum replies with a defense of the glories of Agee's ragged, heartfelt work.
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