Harold Bloom’s ‘The American Literary Canon’
The authors included in Harold Bloom's The American Literary Canon conform to a singular American aesthetic that, in Bloom's world, makes them superior to the spectrum of the American experience.
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Ryan Adams by Taylor Swift: Authoring ‘1989’
Even if you've never heard Swift's original performances, you're hearing them when you listen to Ryan Adams perform 1989.
Stephen King, ‘Mr. Mercedes’, and Our Love of Literary Junk Food
Why can't a reader enjoy both Stephen King and Alice McDermott? Fancy Michelin critics have been known to go wild for Shake Shack, after all.