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Michael Barron's Articles: Insights, Tips, and Expertise

After obtaining a BA in Poetics from the Evergreen State College, Michael began his literary career at the independent publishing house New Directions. As an editor, he acquired books by and worked with writers such as Rachel Kushner, Rivka Galchen, Ahmed Bouanani, and Horacio Castellanos Moya, among others. After leaving New Directions in 2015, Michael began writing about literature and art for numerous publications, including Harper's, Vice, and Frieze, and took on consulting editorial positions at the UK-based literary press Fitzcarraldo Editions and the literary and art publication The White Review. He is currently writing a book on the cultural history of banishment.

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20 Translators Under 40: Asa Yoneda

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How the New York Novel Came to Overshadow the Great American Novel

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The Ways Literary Patriarchy Is Being Taken To Task

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The Great Danish Poet of Dance and Disturbance

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The Literary Work Asking What It Means to Be a Body on Earth

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Novelist Ross Simonini on the Art of Interviews and Self-Help Gurus

Novelist Ross Simonini on the Art of Interviews and Self-Help Gurus image
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Why Cleveland's New Literary Journal Is Cause for National Celebration

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Is Amazon to Blame for the Death of Another American Bookstore Chain?

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Martin MacInnes's 'Infinite Ground' Is a Fever Dream of a Novel

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Read Excerpts from the New Issue of Music & Literature

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The Archive of Proust's Letters Will Be Made Available for Free Online

The Archive of Prousts Letters Will Be Made Available for Free Online image
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Can Somalian Literature Help Arouse Empathy in Apathetic Westerners?

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How Novelist Deepak Unnikrishnan Post-Modernized the United Arab Emirates

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The Many Novelized Conspiracies of the JFK Assassination

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One Woman's Journey So Far to Open a Bookstore in the Bronx

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Bandi's 'The Accusation', Smuggled out of North Korea, Is a Victory for World Literature

Bandis The Accusation, Smuggled out of North Korea, Is a Victory for World Literature image
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Why Eduardo Lalo's 'Simone' Is the One Puerto Rican Novel You Should Read

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The American Writer George Saunders Has Won the Man Booker

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A New British Feminist Press Is Publishing Audre Lorde

A New British Feminist Press Is Publishing Audre Lorde image
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Lydia Davis Judged a Writing Contest for Incarcerated Writers

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Two Novelists and a Playwright Among This Year's Annual MacArthur "Genius" Fellows

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The 19th-Century Danish Writer Jens Peter Jacobsen Is Given a 21st-Century Reconsideration

The 19th-Century Danish Writer Jens Peter Jacobsen Is Given a 21st-Century Reconsideration image
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11 Literary Horror Stories by Women Writers That You Can Read Right Now

11 Literary Horror Stories by Women Writers That You Can Read Right Now image
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How Selecting the British Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro Redeemed the Nobel Prize

How Selecting the British Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro Redeemed the Nobel Prize image

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