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I'm so sorry to hear of Dan Wickett's passing. We worked together for years at Dzanc Books, and I'm so grateful for all he did for me there and elsewhere. He was a great friend, a brilliant reader, a true advocate for writers. He loved books like no one else. I miss him already, and always will.

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Sep 4

My essay on Drexler's fiction: www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2017/06/...

Sad and Bad and Mad: The Fiction of Rosalyn Drexler

Perhaps it is because her most lasting accomplishment may turn out to be her paintings that Rosalyn Drexler is now so very little known as a writer of fiction. Although she did attract attention with ...

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Sep 4

RIP, Rosalyn Drexler. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/b...

Rosalyn Drexler, Artistic Whirlwind Who Defied Categories, Dies at 98

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Sep 1

I tried migrating it there, but the software for importing Typepad failed. They say they're trying to fix it, but I don't have much time to spare, so I'm looking elsewhere as well.

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Sep 1

The service that hosts my blog (Typepad) is shutting down, so that on or about September 25, it seems that The Reading Experience will disappear unless I can migrate it elsewhere. I've successfully exported it, but can't decide where/ if to migrate it. Suggestions?

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Sep 1

Agree. The most consistently good.

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Jul 29

RIP, Ryne Sandberg. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/s...

Ryne Sandberg, Hall of Fame Second Baseman for the Cubs, Dies at 65

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Jul 24

"And that’s the point of reviews: the future. With perspective on the history of an art form and an awareness of its current state. . .critics see in new works their implications, their promise, the possibilities that they expand...." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

In Defense of the Traditional Review

Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Jul 22

Very sorry.

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Jul 16

Dalkey Archive is republishing Stanley Elkin's The Franchiser this fall. There are few writers I admire more than Elkin, and this is one of his best books. If any editorial type would like to cover this book, I am available 😀for such an assignment. static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc9a...

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Jul 15

On the persistent misreadings of Philip Roth: hedgehogreview.com/issues/lesso...

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Jul 7

How "ethical criticism" canceled literature. (Warning: long-ish) www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/07/...

What's Good For Us: The Legacy of Wayne Booth's "Ethical Criticism"

Wayne Booth’s scholarly apologia on behalf of “ethical criticism” in his 1988 book, The Company We Keep (still the most well-known defense of such criticism written by a modern academic critic), is no...

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · Jul 7

"Booth's The Company We Keep has in retrospect become the harbinger of the profound shift of scholarly perspective that has occurred over the past 50 years, by which the academic study of literature has all but banished the aesthetic" www.thereadingexperience.net/tre/2025/07/...

What's Good For Us: The Legacy of Wayne Booth's "Ethical Criticism"

Wayne Booth’s scholarly apologia on behalf of “ethical criticism” in his 1988 book, The Company We Keep (still the most well-known defense of such criticism written by a modern academic critic), is no...

www.thereadingexperience.net