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Jacob Singer

JACOB SINGER's reviews and interviews have appeared in Rain Taxi, Quarterly Conversation, and American Book Review. He can be found @jacobcsinger



Marie NDiaye's My Heart Hemmed In

by Jacob Singer

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Marie NDiaye’s My Heart Hemmed In begins with a mysterious injury.

The William H. Gass Reader

by Jacob Singer

| Books

Gass toiled over diction, cadence of free modification, and the emergent properties of prose style. The William H. Gass Reader is a collection of crumbs that will draw you into a labyrinth of letters that will transform your understanding of language

William T. Vollmann’s Carbon Ideologies

by Jacob Singer

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William T. Vollmann’s two-volume set, Carbon Ideologies: No Immediate Danger and No Good Alternative, combines journalism, research, and philosophy in a way that has become synonymous with his nonfiction.

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