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Jane Smiley’s The Hundred Year Trilogy, concluded

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Ellen Akins

Golden Age completes Jane Smiley’s Last Hundred Years trilogy (though it won’t really be the last 100 years until 2020, when things promise to be pretty bleak). I reviewed this last volume for the Minneapolis Star Tribune–as I did the 1st 2 volumes … Continue reading →

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Reading Daniel Mendelsohn in Harper’s, on the flawed DNA of TV series drama

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Ellen Akins

Reading Daniel Mendelsohn in Harper’s on the inevitable diminution and death of TV serial dramas. Talking about shows from Downton Abbey to The Sopranos to Six Feet Under he cites the need of the plot to be finite, refers to … Continue reading →

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