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Thomas Pynchon
October 5, 2021
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.
October 6, 2020
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.
October 9, 2019
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the 2019 (or the 2018!) Nobel Prize in Literature?
The only thing we know for sure is that the Swedish Academy won’t have Philip Roth to kick around anymore.
February 9, 2018
MagazineChristian Lorentzen
Talk Therapy
Alex Ross Perry’s moody portrait of stifled creativity and tense relationships
October 13, 2016
Ryu Spaeth, Alex Shephard
Bob Dylan Won the Nobel Prize in Literature?! A Conversation.
October 12, 2016
Alex Shephard
Is it Don DeLillo’s Year to Win the Nobel Prize?
There might not be a better time to recognize the accomplishments of the master chronicler of American dread.
September 12, 2015
Alex Shephard
The Hunt for a Possible Pynchon Novel Leads to a Name
Literary speculation begun by Harper’s Magazine is traced to an author in Hawaii—A.J. Perry
September 11, 2013
Adam Kirsch
Thomas Pynchon Takes on September 11

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