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Sondheim's interviews; Cynthia Ozick on the secret self

Joel Cuthbertson

Mar 3

December 2022

a ranking of every one of P.D. James's novels

Joel Cuthbertson

Dec 21, 2022

November 2022

whether he knows it or not; and a note on Cynthia Ozick

Joel Cuthbertson

Nov 2, 2022

September 2022

on Philip Pullman, Charles Dickens, & Freddie deBoer

Joel Cuthbertson

Sep 15, 2022

July 2022

Joel Cuthbertson

Jul 5, 2022

June 2022

on Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus

Joel Cuthbertson

Jun 10, 2022

May 2022

the ducks are coming for you

Joel Cuthbertson

May 7, 2022

April 2022

the writers who ground us, and for some reason Norm Macdonald

Joel Cuthbertson

Apr 28, 2022

on experimentation and the first modern detective novel

Joel Cuthbertson

Apr 20, 2022

the Risen Christ, now in stereo

Joel Cuthbertson

Apr 15, 2022

on the temptations, and joys, of blathering into a microphone

Joel Cuthbertson

Apr 7, 2022

March 2022

the clown of pride that is Mr. Collins

Joel Cuthbertson

Mar 26, 2022

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